Ecofascism and its Atmospheres: ASLE 2025 Panel Call
Panel Proposal for “Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality” 2025 ASLE Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland
On August 3, 2019, a self-identified ecofascist murdered 23 people and injured 23 others in El Paso, Texas. Minutes before the murders, the perpetrator posted a manifesto to the online message board 8chan detailing his motives for targeting the “Hispanic invasion” supposedly precipitated by climate change. Taking climate change as the new frontier condition, the mass murderer projected himself into an imagined future where he ...
Vegan Intersections: Literature, History, Theory
Vegan Intersections: Literature, History, Theory
31 March-4 April 2025 Online via Zoom Hosted by the University of Geneva
CALL FOR PAPERS
In the context of the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded research project, Vegan Literary Studies: An American Textual History, 1776-1900,” proposals are invited for the international Vegan Studies conference, “Vegan Intersections: Literature, History, Theory.” The conference will be conducted online over a series of half-days, in order to facilitate international participation, between 31 March and 4 April 2025. The conference will be organized around three themes: Literature, Art, ...
Community Literacy Journal, Special Issue: Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies
Call for submissions for a special issue of Community Literacy Journal: “Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies”
Sustainability, in the context of environmental concerns, has long been central to the work of community literacy practitioners (Mareck, CLJ Special Issue, 2009; House, Lasswell, and Dickson, Reflections Special Issue, 2016). Indeed, such work encompasses grassroots struggles with sustainability (Meyers, 2009), rural, placed-based, and eco-pedagogies (Cushman, 2018; Donehower, Hogg, and Schell, 2007; Davis, 2013), food security (Martinez, 2022), local public environmental discourse (Goggin and Long, 2009), and durable futures (McKibben, ...