Tag: environment
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CFP: Precarious Houses by the Water
University of Augsburg | March 3-5, 2027 Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to…
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Book Reviews for Ecozon@
Book Reviews for Ecozon@ (February 2025) Ecozon@ is seeking reviewers for the following books: Book Reviews (1,000 words, approx.) 1. Alberro, Heather, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott (Eds.) Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities. Routledge, 2024. [Open Access] https://www.routledge.com/Utopian-and-Dystopian-Explorations-of-Pandemics-and-Ecological-Breakdown 2. Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin Cosmological Readings of Contemporary…
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Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante
Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis? We were particularly interested in coastal issues or “ecotones,” areas where at least two communities/environments overlap. Participants: Abigail Chabitnoy, Ana Mafalda Leite, Brenda Shaughnessy, Caleb Parkin, David Gewanter, Diana…
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ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE ATMOSPHERES: AIR, INTIMACY, AND INEQUALITY July 8-11, 2025University of Maryland, College Park,ancestral lands of the Piscataway People CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reflecting on the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons during the 2016 Standing Rock protests, Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons notes that “[t]he conditions we breathe in are collective and…
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Arcadiana – Blog Editor (3 open positions)
Blog Editor (3 open positions) Arcadiana, a blog about the environment in literature and culture that is hosted by postgraduate members of EASLCE, has currently three open positions for blog editors. You can find more information on these positions and on how to apply at https://arcadiana.easlce.eu/get-involved/ and below in this email. It would be great if you…
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Empirical Ecocriticism – Environmental Narratives for Social Change
Empirical Ecocriticism Environmental Narratives for Social Change There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today’s environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an environmental humanities…
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Webinar Report of the 21st EASLCE Webinar: Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature
“Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature (Dr. Isabel Pérez Ramos, University of Oviedo, Spain) 20 April 2023, 4-6 pm (CEST) Participants: The 22nd EASLCE webinar brought us closer to the various facets of environmental justice both as a social movement and as a concern of narrative texts. The group began by taking a look…
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Ph.d. course: LIT606 Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment
The University of Agder and the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) invite applications for the PhD course “Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment”, taking place in Kristiansand, Norway, on 13-16 June 2023. Detailed information on the course contents and the registration form can be found at https://www.uia.no/en/events/ph.d.-course-lit606-ecocritical-theory-literature-culture-and-environment . The course will provide insights into…
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ASLE CFP 2023-RECLAIMING THE COMMONS
ASLE & AESS IN 2023: PORTLAND, OREGON The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) are excited to announce that they will hold their next conference jointly in Portland, Oregon on July 9-12, 2023 at the Oregon Convention Center. The theme of the conference…
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CFP: W. S. Merwin Across Borders
Université de Paris/ ENS Ulm, Paris, France, October 20-21, 2022 Plenary speaker: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa “Is it I who have come to this age /or this age that has come to me.” In “Not early or late,” a poem from his last collection Garden Time, W. S. Merwin’s question speaks to the convening of this…
