Tag: war

  • Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

    Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

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    Nopólemo does not take pleasure in the atrocities of war, and for that reason he rejects viewing everyday life as subject to opposing choices—either this or that, black or white, with me or against me, truth or lie, good or bad. Life is blurred and made up of countless shades of gray. The greater the…

  • Call for Papers: Violence and the Fantastic -17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF)

    Call for Papers: Violence and the Fantastic -17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF)

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    University of Cologne | September 17-19, 2026 Violence is an underlying structural element in fantastic narratives. Whether through depictions of intergalactic wars, epic battles, magical duels, monstrous creatures, heroic warriors, dystopian surveillance regimes, apocalyptic landscapes, conquests and systems of exploitation, physical assaults, psychological transgressions, or more subtle forms of abusive power: the fantastic explores violence…

  • EASLCE Statement on the War in Ukraine

    EASLCE Statement on the War in Ukraine

    EASLCE is deeply concerned about the dramatic situation in Ukraine and the military attacks that Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have decided to launch into the sovereign state of Ukraine. We express our explicit condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine and the impact this has on the lives of innocent people and those in affected…

  • CFP: War and Peace: Militarism, Biopolitics and the Environment in East Asia

    CFP: War and Peace: Militarism, Biopolitics and the Environment in East Asia

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    CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th International Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia War and Peace: Militarism, Biopolitics and the Environment in East Asia October 20-21, 2018 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan In this context, we would like to invite proposals that explore the question of war and peace and the environment in East Asia,…

  • Green Letters 21(1) – Modern warfare and the environment

    Green Letters 21(1) – Modern warfare and the environment

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    Green Letters 21(1) Modern warfare and the environment   A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath those clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile…