Tag: Serenella Iovino
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CFP: Cultures and Citizenship
Call for Papers for the section “Cultures and Citizenship” Dear friends and colleagues, I’m happy to share the Call for Papers for the section “Cultures and Citizenship”, part of the Oxford Intersections: Cultures of Waste series (Oxford University Press), edited by Myra Hird and Cecilia Åsberg. I’m editing this section, which focuses on the ways in which waste, culture, and citizenship intersect—through narratives,…
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Italo Calvino’s Animals – Anthropocene Stories – Serenella Iovino
Are chickens going extinct? What is it like to be a white gorilla in Barcelona’s zoo? How threatening can be an ant? And how endangered are humans, in the industrial and capitalist biosphere? Italo Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories by Serenella Iovino (Cambridge UP) explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. In Calvino’s…
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ECOZON@: Tenth year anniversary issue – Vol 11 No 2 (2020): 2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond
Vol 11 No 2 (2020): 2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond To mark Ecozon@’s tenth anniversary, we are presenting a larger issue than usual, entitled ‘2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond’. Its aim is to consolidate, and to celebrate, what hasbeen achieved over the last ten years through the collective efforts of the journal’s editors,…
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New Translation: Cultural Representations of Other-than-human Nature
New Translation: Cultural Representations of Other-than-human Nature by Pamela Blanchard Faber Benítez Carretero-González, Margarita & José Marchena-Domínguez(eds.). One of the main goals of this collective work is to acknowledge the human and the other-than-human as part of a harmonic whole integrated in a common environment; that is to say, to suggest the study of the…
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Italy and the Environmental Humanities -Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past, eds. Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy–as a territory of both matter and imagination–through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of…
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Voices from the Anthropocene: Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino
Environmental Humanities Voices from the Anthropocene Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures. At a time when the narrative and theoretical…
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French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century
Daniel A. Finch-Race/Stephanie Posthumus (eds) French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017 Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt/Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment – vol. 1 ISBN 9783631713242 EPUB/PDF/Hardback This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human…
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ANTHROPOSCENERIES: ECOLOGIES, LANDSCAPES, AND STORIES
Università degli Studi di Torino May 30-31, 2017 The Anthropocene is the epoch in which humanity has become a geological force. Never before had our activities affected planetary cycles on such a scale, influencing climate, biodiversity, and landscapes. The impact on society is huge, with extraordinary migration flows involving people and things, natures and cultures.…
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3rd EASLCE Webinar: Embodied Narratives: Theory and Practice of Material Ecocriticism
3rd EASLCE Webinar “Embodied Narratives: Theory and Practice of Material Ecocriticism” Date and Time: February 22nd 10:00am Central European Time (GMT+1) Host: Serenella Iovino Moderator: Hannes Bergthaller Inspired by recent research in physical and social sciences, the new materialist paradigm proposes to see matter in terms of its agentic capacity and meanings. Matter, as Karen Barad posits…
