Updated November 9, 2023: Due to a recent change in bylaws to align the Conference Chair position with our biennial schedule, and a seat vacated by the winner of last year’s Public Engagement Officer election, our usual schedule of electing two EC members per year has been disrupted. Therefore, we are also adding two at-large seats to the candidate call, and extending the deadline for nominations to November 29.  The election will run online from December 1 to December 23, 2023.  Please see ...

Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals

The concept of energy has a history that long pre-dates any dreams of resource extraction or electrification. Cultures around the world have viewed different energies, plural, as living forces. Depending on the context, the word “energy” might call up images of interconnected beings, landforms, species, and worldviews. Phases of existence have even been understood in terms of energy, since spirits of the dead are often thought to ...

Please join us for a virtual Sustainability Town Hall on October 3rd. ASLE commissioned a sustainability audit of the 2023 Conference held in Portland, Oregon this past July. The conference is the ASLE activity with the organization’s largest carbon footprint, which is why it was the focus of the audit.

ASLE’s Sustainability Officer Rebecca Ballard will give a presentation on the data gathered from the sustainability audit, conducted by Climate Stewards, and lead a discussion on the present and future ...

We are delighted to announce the awardees for the 2023 ASLE Graduate Student Paper Awards. These students presented their work at the 2023 conference in July, either virtually or in person in Portland, Oregon.  All recipients received a $100 prize, and the winner’s paper has been published as an article in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, now available via advanced access.

Minh Huynh Vu, “Corrugated Surrogacies: Cardboard Kinships and the War in Vietnam”

Minh Huynh Vu is a third-year Ph.D. student in American ...

The panel “Latinx Environmental Activism,” held during the ASLE + AESS Conference: Reclaiming the Commons, marked the first time an ASLE panel was conducted in Spanish. As such, the panel addressed what entails to be an activist in Latin America: whether through visual arts, poetry, or academic research, militancy and activism varies in its scopes, approaches, and goals. Visual artist Saul Hernández, Poet Celerina Sánchez, and linguist Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (via Zoom) discussed the challenges, opportunities, and threats ingrained in activism in ...