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February 10, 2020

CFP Special Issue: Weird Sciences and the Sciences of the Weird

Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture is seeking submissions for a special issue entitled “Weird Sciences and the Sciences of the Weird.”

Recent scientific discoveries in climatology, animal cognition and microbiology have radically altered our conceptions of ourselves and the environment we live in, both on micro and macroscales. Zooming in on the human microbiome and out to the planetary ecosystem, or even further into infinite cosmic spaces, the sciences are revealing strange dynamics of human-nonhuman interconnectedness, doing away with ...

CFP Special Issue: Keep on Rolling Under the Stars – Green Readings on the Beat Generation

A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2020.

The Beat Generation promoted transnational literatures of resistance, and green readings of their work remains lacking. The Beat Generation was a transnational group of literary bohemians, and the relevance of their work might seem limited to the immediate postwar period. The problem of climate change has long been a source of inspiration for authors, and existing scholarship acknowledges this fact. Nonetheless, important questions remain. Can the environmental humanities contribute to current debates surrounding the ...

International Association for Environmental Philosophy

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

International Association for Environmental Philosophy

Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting 10–12 October 2020

The Hilton Toronto, Toronto, ON

Following the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)

IAEP offers a forum for the philosophical discussion of our relation to the environment. We embrace a broad understanding of environmental philosophy including its affinities with other disciplines in the environmental humanities. We welcome diverse philosophical approaches, including philosophical work inspired by Continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, and American philosophy, as well as theoretically ...