Convection Currents in Latin American and Caribbean Geo-aesthetics
Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
Much like tectonic plates, which are shifted by underground convection currents that transfer heat and exert pressure from below, Latin American and Caribbean aesthetics form in fluid exchange with planetary processes and the region’s geological forces. From rock formations to hydrological cycles, aesthetics assemble around often contested geological features, engendering deep social lives that converge, shift, erupt, and leak in many directions. To strategically attend to the ...
Commons Salmon
Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
This panel seeks original contributions to the literature of salmon in any genre: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, long-form journalism, investigative reporting, new media. The vitality of wild salmon has long fed the shifting ecologies, cultures, and economies of the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Rim continents and islands. Salmon, past and present, locate multigenerational efforts by elders and experts to sustain disrupted communal management practices. Salmon also ask ...
Environmental Justice Pedagogies: Performance and Activism in the Humanities
Panel sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) at the 54th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 23-26, 2023 University of Buffalo Niagara Falls, NY
Environmental Justice Pedagogies: Performance and Activism in the Humanities
Performance pedagogy, project-based learning, integrative learning, service learning, and other teaching models all enable students to transform classroom-based arts and humanities learning into performance and action. This roundtable explores these pedagogical approaches in environmental justice (EJ)-themed arts and humanities courses. Participants might consider theoretical and curricular ...
The Digital Commons: Digital Methods for Public Environmental Humanities Scholarship
Panel Proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland Oregon
What kind of intellectual commons can digital methods create for scholars, activists, and artists in the environmental humanities? How might these methods allow environmental humanists to reach new publics? What factors limit the composition of those digital publics?
Environmental humanists commonly assert that public engagement is crucial to the success of our interdisciplinary field. Yet the presence and composition of this public cannot be assumed. As Hannes Bargthaller ...