Science Fiction Research Association 2020: ASLE session
MLA 2021 Special Session: “The Final Frontier: Space, Race, and Survival in Speculative Fiction”
This panel will investigate space exploration in speculative literatures. We particularly welcome papers that consider rhetorics of survivalism, racial supremacy, colonization, and/or ecocide that have informed speculative imaginations of space travel and planetary conquest.
Please submit abstracts (~250 words) and CVs to Tyler Harper (New York University) at tyler.harper569@gmail.com and Smaran Dayal (New York University) at sd3188@nyu.edu.
Writing Environment, landscape and territory: ecocriticism and cultural studies in South America
Tekoporá: Latin American Journal of Environmental Humanities and Territorial Studies welcomes abstracts for papers to be published in the July 2021 issue.
This 4th edition of Tekoporá seeks to gather work from the intersecting fields of ecocriticism and cultural studies that is specifically related to issues surrounding environment, landscape and territory. Articles must explore literary, cultural, visual and other texts that engage with environmental issues and are contextualized in South America.
We invite contributions premised on the environmental and/or post-human turn of literary and cultural ...
Modern Language Association Session: The Persistence of Plants in an Emergent Plantocene?
Papers for this MLA special session may consider plant adaptability, plant challenges to human exceptionalism, plant occupations, plant queerness, plants and the Plantationocene, and/or plant challenges to the Anthropocene. 250 word abstract and brief bio to carroal@auburn.edu and cryan@albany.edu