Tag: scholarship

  • Call for Submissions: EASLCE Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism

    Call for Submissions: EASLCE Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism

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    The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) sponsors a prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism. It consists of a stipend of 500 Euros to help cover the costs of attending the next EASLCE conference (at the University of Urtecht, April 13-17 2026) and the opportunity…

  • Webinar video: “The Dark Pastoral” with Prof. Heather I. Sullivan

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  • CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS

    CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS

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    CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS. APRIL 1, 2015. Conventional deployments of the term “sustainability” emphasize “avoiding the long-term depletion of natural resources,” as the Oxford English Dictionary defines this word. However, the emergent idea of “comprehensive sustainability” considers the so-called natural environment and human politics in equal measure…

  • 12th Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference

    12th Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference

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    12th  Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference Universidad Complutense, Madrid, March 25-27, 2015.  “American Communities in a Global World: Challenges for the New Millennium” Panel Title: “A Sense of Place in the Literary Mapping of the Changing US South” Panel Chairs: Inés Casas Maroto, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Christian Hummelsund Voie, Mid…

  • “Ecological Othering and Biopolitics in the Environmental Humanities”

    “Ecological Othering and Biopolitics in the Environmental Humanities”

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    Call for Papers Postgraduate Workshop:  “Ecological Othering and Biopolitics in the Environmental Humanities” 10-11 October 2014, Munich, Germany The development of modern environmental thought and environmental discourses is inextricably intertwined with the historical expansion of colonialism and imperialism. European colonial occupation and settlement of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas depended on the notion that…

  • ASLE TRANSLATION GRANTS

    ASLE TRANSLATION GRANTS

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    ASLE TRANSLATION GRANTS New ASLE Grants to Translate Ecocritical Books into English  In order to support work in ecocriticism from international scholars and to expand exchanges across cultures and continents, the ASLE Committee for Translations seeks proposals for books to be translated into English. Proposed books should be ecocriticism or fiction/non-fiction with a clear relationship to…

  • 33 Scholarships – Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies

    33 Scholarships – Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies

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    Call for Applications: 33 Scholarships for the Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS) Sep 23-Sep 28, 2013, at the University of Würzburg 1. Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies, Funded by VolkswagenStiftung In the Humanities and in Cultural Studies, animals have increasingly become the focus of interest in recent years. In its interdisciplinary…