May 19, 2022 10:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) Via Zoom

Please join us virtually for the first of three professional development workshops for ASLE graduate students in 2022. Our first installment will focus on Public Humanities.

Graduate students will hear from other graduate students and early-career faculty about the challenges and rewards of developing such projects, funding opportunities, and suggestions for creating public humanities projects.

Moderated by Lisa Fink, ASLE Senior Graduate Student Liaison.

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Conference email: [email protected]

Dennis J. Coker

Kazim Ali (virtual keynote) currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light.

Dennis J. Coker is Principal Chief of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware

Hillary Eklund is an Associate Professor of English at Loyola University, and author of Literature and Moral Economy in ...

Poster art: “Sacred Water” by Coralee Miller

Friday, 13 May, 2022 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Woodhaven Eco-Culture Centre, Kelowna

“Fire and Water” is a free one-day symposium of workshops, storytelling, talks, performances, and other forms of sharing creative and critical perspectives on water ecologies and fire practices in the Okanagan watershed and beyond. This event will take place on site at the Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre on Syilx territory, primarily outdoors ...

ASLE opposes the illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Ukraine is a sovereign state with a distinct history, language, and culture. Russia has no right to colonize Ukraine. We stand against imperial wars and the social and environmental destruction that they wreak. We call on our academic colleagues to condemn this war and the fossil fuel infrastructure that supports it. We support the people of Ukraine in their resistance and look forward to the day when Ukrainians live again in peace.

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ELI poetic fieldwork at the Exeter River with 2019 keynote Alison Hawthorne Deming

From Sunday, June 19 to Friday, June 24, 2022, the annual Environmental Literature Institute (ELI) will take place at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. ELI is the only institute of its kind dedicated to the environmental humanities in secondary education. The week-long conference, offered in collaboration with ASLE, is designed to build and sustain a community of teachers interested in the environmental humanities.

This summer, after a two-year pandemic hiatus, ELI will ...