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Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies – Reinhard Hennig Emily Lethbridge Michael Schulte (eds)
Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies. Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture. Ed. by Reinhard Hennig, Emily Lethbridge, and Michael Schulte. Turnhout: Brepols 2023 “Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies is the first anthology to combine environmental humanities approaches and the study of premodern Nordic literature and culture. The chapters gathered here present innovative…
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Winner of the EASLCE Essay Prize, Călina-Maria Moldovan
Călina-Maria Moldovan, PhD student at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is the winner of the EASLCE Essay Prize. A jury consisting of members of the EASLCE Advisory Board decided to award the prize to Călina-Maria for her article “The Ocean in Contemporary Norwegian Literature”. The article does, according to the jury, not only “comply with the…
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Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time by Boria Sax
“Put on your hiking boots and prepare for an adrenaline-fueled journey around the world with Sax as your expert guide. Make stops with Gilgamesh at the Cedar Forest of Lebanon, with Dante as he enters a dark forest, and with Joseph Conrad’s Marlow as he navigates his way down a river to the Congo. Behold…
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CFP – 3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century
Call for Papers 3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 20-22, 2024 Confirmed Keynote Speakers Although ecocriticism has always kept its initial emphasis on the “relationship between literature and the physical environment” (Glotfelty 1996), over the last decade it has “entered into fruitful interdisciplinary…
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Report on the 23rd EASLCE Webinar -“Ecological Care”
(Dr. Joshua Trey Barnett, Pennsylvania State University, USA) 5 October 2023, 4-5:30 pm (CEST) Participants: In the 23rd EASCLE Webinar on Ecological Care, participants discussed various facets of ecological care as process and practice, using theoretical reflections by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Thom Van Dooren to zero in on the seeming paradox of…
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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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EASLCE 23rd Webinar Ecological Care – Joshua Trey Barnett
Ecological Care Joshua Trey Barnett, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA Date and Time: October 5, 2023, 4-5:30 pm CEST Description Ecological crises are often the result of carelessness. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, calls to care about and for more-than-human beings and ways of being, ecological communities, and the earth itself…
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Blue Humanities – Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet’s troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls…
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The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies
The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies Conference organized by Simon Ferdinand and Colin Sterling | 4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam | Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2023. Keynote Speaker: Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017) For this two-day, single-stream,…
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Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023)
Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023) Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological catastrophe, digitalisation and biotechnology. She proposes that fiction and its modes…
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