The Coronavirus Pandemic: An Environmental Humanities Perspective
The Coronavirus Pandemic: An Environmental Humanities Perspective,” a conference convened as part of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” invites abstract submissions for consideration. This three-day on-site event will take place at the University of Vienna on February 15-17, 2023, with keynote speakers Dr Cymene Howe (Rice University) and Dr Eben Kirksey (Deakin University).
The COVID-19 pandemic is identified as resulting from human-animal entanglement, or multispecies interactions between individuals and collective populations in proximity, and has ...
ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference
ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference: Northumbria 2022 Call for Papers
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, Biennial Conference 2022‘: Epochs, Ages, and Cycles: Time and the Environment’
6–8 September 2022, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Plenary Speakers include:Samantha Walton (Bath Spa University) Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (Northumbria University)
Northumbria University is delighted to host the 2022 Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland. The purpose of ASLE-UKI is to encourage scholarship, criticism, and appreciation of environmental literature and of the ...
Gender, Colonialism & Science: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Primary Sources Volume 3: Plants
We are seeking contributions to a volume of primary source materials—with particular emphasis on those produced by women, queer, non-binary, two-spirit and/or transgender persons—that offer perspectives on gender and plant life (and quasi-plant life) from global geographies of direct relevance to the British empire (ca. 1650-1950).
This volume will be part of a 5-volume series, “Gender, Colonialism, and Science: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Primary Sources” (General Editors: Donald L. Opitz and Banu Subramanian) from Routledge. Collectively, the volumes will illuminate gendered knowledge about nature ...