EASLCE Webinar With Dr. Stephanie Le Menager, University of Oregon December 13, 2014 (7 pm CET) The Cultures of Energy Context: The “cultures of energy” describes a branch of the environmental humanities that draws upon energy politics, the experiential and political dimensions of climate change (thus, aesthetics and affect), and the geologic turn associated with…
ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference, 30-31 July 2014, University College Dublin Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts Confirmed Keynote Addresses: Day 1: Dr Sharae Deckard (UCD) and Dr Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick) Day 2: Mark Cocker and Professor Anne Milne (Toronto) How does one define a system? Be it an ecosystem, world-system, literary system, colonial system, the term itself,…
Rice University English Symposium: Ecology and the Environmental Humanities Rice University, Houston, TX September 13-14, 2013 Keynotes: Prof. Claire Colebrook, PennState University Prof. Timothy Morton, Rice University* The 2013 English Symposium at Rice University invites responses to the ecological and nonhuman turns in the humanities. These turns are undoubtedly responses to environmental crises, food shortages, global warming, factory farming,…