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Call for Book Chapters: Ecofeminist Intersections
When d’Eaubonne coined the word “ecofeminism” in 1974, related ideas were already being discussed in a range of social sciences and humanities. Within anthropology Ortner (1974) argued that the universal devaluation of women relative to men could be explained by assuming that women are seen as being closer to nature than men, while men are seen as being more…
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Stacy Alaimo Webinar: Bodily Natures, Anthropocene Subjects
EASLCE Webinar With Dr. Stacy Alaimo February 11, 2015 (7 pm CET) “Bodily Natures, Anthropocene Subjects.” Context: As Humanities scholars grapple with the idea of the anthropocene, one of the key questions may be how to conceive of the “anthropos.” Does the anthropocene demand the reconceptualization of the human as a concept, species, geological force,…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Green Letters 20(1)
‘Pastoral: Past, Present, Future’ Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism is the journal of ASLE-UKI (the UK-Ireland branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment). It is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis and supported by Bath Spa University and the University of Worcester. Green Letters explores interdisciplinary interfaces between…
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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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EASLCE Webinar Dr. Stephanie Le Menager December 13th
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…
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Call for Contributions: Writing Creaturely Lives
Call for Contributions: Writing Creaturely Lives: Literature, Culture, History We invite proposals for contributions to be included in a projected volume on the notion of “the creaturely” as a way of conceptualizing forms and modes of life within, between, across or beyond species that allow us to challenge or problematize clear-cut notions of the human…
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12th Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference
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…
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Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice
Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23 – 27, 2015 University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho www.uidaho.edu/asle THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE (INCLUDING SUBMISSIONS PAGE) WILL BE LIVE IN SEPTEMBER, 2014 Already even then I had my underground world in…
ANN FISHER-WIRTH, ANNA TSING, ANNA TSING DONNA HARAWAY, ASLE, Call for Papers, conference, cultivation, cultures, depletion, Dostoyevsky, drilling, earthquakes, EASLCE, Ecocriticism, ecology and place, equity, eruptions, extraction, fault lines, fossils, fracking, geological time, LINDA HOGAN, literatures and poetics of extraction, magnetism, minerals, mountains, murdering, neoliberalisation, piping, polluting, pollution, quarrying, refining, resisting, RITA WONG, rocks, sculpture, smelting, soil biopolitics, sovereignty, spilling, STEPHANIE LEMENAGER, stone, TANURE OJAIDE, tectonic shifts, transportation and processing: mining, trenches, University of Idaho Moscow, volcanoes, witnessing -
CFP: ESEH Biennial Conference 2015
The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is pleased to invite proposals for sessions, individual papers, roundtables, posters and other, more experimental forms of communicating scholarship for its 2015 biennial conference. The University of Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines will be hosting the conference in Versailles, France, from 30 June to 3 July 2015. Environmental history has the ambition of changing not only the way…
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“Ecological Othering and Biopolitics in the Environmental Humanities”
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…
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