ASLE Spotlight 2024-25 Lineup and Registration
We are delighted to announce the themes and participants in our 2024-25 ASLE Spotlight series.
Each of our four ASLE Spotlight episodes will feature moderated conversations with ASLE members who have produced new critical and creative work in the environmental humanities. Episodes follow a theme, and highlight publicly engaged scholarship. They will be recorded for later viewing, and posted to ASLE Spotlight and to our Spotlight Channel on YouTube.
Registration is free but required for the live episodes. Priority will be given to ASLE members, ...
Air, Smell and Socio-Environmental Inequality: ASLE 2025 Virtual Panel
Call for ASLE 2025 Conference Virtual Panel
The panel proposes to explore intersections between atmospherics, olfactory perception, and socio-environmental inequality. As H. L. Hsu puts it, “the social construction of smell informs— and is informed by— the social construction of environmental risk perception” (Smell of Risk, NYU Press, 2020, 6). Individual and collective experiences of atmospheric odor (whether pleasant or unpleasant) indeed influence social behaviors and representations. Historically, in the West, the long-standing belief in miasma theory led to considerations of space in which ...