Energy Humanities Interest Group Guaranteed Panel: ASLE 2025 Conference
Panel at Collective Atmospheres, ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park
The Energy Humanities Interest Group invites proposals for pre-formed panels or roundtables that consider the relationship between energy and atmosphere from an energy humanities perspective.
Proposals should outline the format in the abstract and also include presentation titles and author names for other panelists and include 300 word abstracts for each individual paper unless proposing a roundtable.
The successful panel/roundtable will have guaranteed acceptance to ASLE 2025.
Please submit to Jordan B. Kinder ...
Breathing In/door Atmospheres
Breathing In/door Atmospheres: ASLE 2025 Panel
As made apparent by the rapid spread of COVID-19 in crowded, poorly ventilated indoor spaces, indoor air quality is an issue of environmental health and justice. In 2020, the World Health Organization estimated that 3.2 million people die each year from household air pollution, largely due to illnesses caused or exacerbated by the use of indoor fires or inefficient stoves that burn kerosene, wood, dung, crop waste, or coal. Climate change can also make indoor air quality worse, ...
ASLE 2025: Atmospheric Pollution as Materiality and Metaphor in Asia
Panel at ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park
This panel takes up air pollution in Asian texts both as a material substance and as a metaphorical strategy for narrating environmental harm. We welcome proposals on Asian literature or film. We currently have 2 presenters working on Japan and 1 presenter on China. The current panelists intersect with issues of environmental justice, the invisibility of pollution and its victims, and airborne illnesses as a metaphor for radioactive contamination. We would welcome ...