Tag: Timothy Morton
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‘The Garden & The Dump’- two-day online conference
Aarhus University is pleased to announce ‘The Garden & The Dump’, a two-day online conference on the multitude of ways of seeing, thinking, and living ecology through visual art, cinema, magic and philosophy. The conference will include thesis seminars by Nicolai Skiveren and Aliya Say and feature talks by Timothy Morton, Michael Marder, and Chen…
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Call for Papers; Energy Use and the Humanities
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2016 Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue will include papers that explore the intersection of the various Humanities disciplines, with the production and consumption of energy sources, such as petroleum, natural gas, nuclear energy, solar and wind power, and coal (this is only a partial list and papers that explore…
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Webinar Spring 2015 The Dark Pastoral
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2015 May 21st at 7pm CEST With Prof. Heather I. Sullivan The Dark Pastoral CONTEXT: As a trope, the “dark pastoral” engages the controversy in ecocriticism and environmentalism about which cultural forms are most productive for re-imagining the human and non-human interactions in the Anthropocene during what appears to be the Earth’s sixth…
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CFP: Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Humanities and Fine Arts
Call for Papers: Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Humanities and Fine Arts Thursday-Friday, May 7-8, 2015 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB Abstract deadline: Monday, March 2, 2015 Scientists have declared that we are in living in the Anthropocene, an age in which human behavior and actions are massively altering the ecosystems of the earth. Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen claims that…
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Workshop & Conference: Imagining Earth at Zukunftsakademie NRW
Workshop & Conference Imagining »Earth« Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ 29.-31.05.2014 Zukunftsakademie NRW, Humboldtstr. 40; 44787 Bochum (Germany) Web: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/imagining-earth Contact: Solvejg Nitzke [email protected] Title: Imagining Earth. Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ To call upon the ›whole Earth‹ has become a common way to evoke significance.…
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Rice University English Symposium: Ecology and the Environmental Humanities
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,…
