LISA BLACKMORE: DECEMBER 2023 SCHOLAR OF THE MONTH
ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for December 2023 is Lisa Blackmore.
Lisa Blackmore is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Latin American Cultural Studies from Birkbeck College in 2011, she taught at universities in Venezuela and the United Kingdom and was Postdoctoral Researcher on the project “Modernity and the Landscape in Latin America: Politics, Aesthetics, Ecology” at the University of Zurich from 2014-17. Moving between practice and research in the environmental humanities, ...
Migrations: ALECC 2024 Extended Deadline
Please note, the deadlines for call for papers and preformed panels have been extended:
Papers: 15 January 2024
Preformed Panels: 10 January 2024
Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada 2024 Biennial Conference: Migrations Call for Proposals 19-22 June, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
ALECC Migrations CFP (PDF)
The 2024 Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) biennial conference takes migrations as its theme as it seeks new ways of comprehending and responding to the complexity of migration in the past, present, and future. Migrations, in its ...
Aesthetics in Times of Turmoil: A Conference on Intersections between Art and Ecology
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Aesthetics in Times of Turmoil: A Conference on Intersections between Art and Ecology March 22–23, 2024
CENTRE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE King’s University College at Western University, Canada
The conference will include keynote addresses from Paul Harris (Loyola Marymount University), Nina Zitani (Western University), and Jan Zwicky (Emerita, University of Victoria).
THEME
During intensifying ecological turbulence and geopolitical conflict, entrenched habits of thought might suggest that questions of the aesthetic and the beautiful are dispensable luxuries. Such attitudes presume an image of the aesthetic ...
2024 LITCO Symposium: Rethinking Crisis & Status Quo
The Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization (LITCO) at Purdue University invites participants for our fourth annual symposium, “Rethinking Crisis & Status Quo.” We are interested in scholarly projects that discuss past, present, and future intersections of crisis and status quo, including readings that challenge or rearticulate crisis and status quo as conceptual categories. We conceptualize “crisis” broadly and welcome papers on personal, legal, environmental, professional, etc. crises. In addition to the approaches listed below, projects may investigate questions such as, “How are ...