Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum Sessions at MLA 2025
MLA 2025 Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum Sessions CFPs
Forms of Water, Forms of Life This panel invites blue humanities perspectives on literary forms, life/forms, and waters. Papers may address multispecies ecologies inclusive of the human, and varied scales of water–from droplets, to streams, to the transoceanic. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 10 March 2024 Melody Jue, University of California Santa Barbara (melody.jue@gmail.com)
Histories and Legacies of Hurricane Katrina Invites papers on environmental and cultural histories, impacts, afterlives of Hurricane Katrina as the twentieth anniversary approaches. Comparative work on Katrina in ...
PLANETARY FICTION: AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
PLANETARY FICTION: AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Modern Fiction Studies Special Issue Call for Papers Guest Editors: Nedine Moonsamy (Johannesburg) and David Shackleton (Cardiff) Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2025
Modern Fiction Studies invites essay submissions for a special issue on “Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change.” At the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in 2020, Ugandan climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate was cropped out of an Associated Press photograph that shows other young activists (Isabelle Axelsson, Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, and Luisa Neubauer). As ...
Breaking New Grounds Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.
Breaking New Grounds: Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.
Date: 27 September 2024 Venue: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. A one-day conference organised by Clémence Laburthe-Tolra (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, EMMA) and Aurélien Wasilewski (Law & Humanities, CERSA, UMR 7106, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas).
This conference stems from a reflection on the social and political dimensions of gardens and gardening in Great Britain ranging from the Victorian and Edwardian eras to the post-war period. Pondering on “People’s Gardens,” Vita Sackville-West claimed that “we have been called a ...