2024 ASLE Grant Winners
The ASLE subvention and translation grant committee has announced the five ASLE member projects that have been awarded grants for 2024.
Subvention Grants fund innovative projects in ecocriticism and environmental humanities such as art installations, documentary film projects, digital humanities web projects, and book or article publication, and Translation Grants fund a translation into English, or from English into other languages, of relevant ecocritical or environmental humanities work that has been previously published.
Subvention Grants Kate Huber, Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization ...
National Cinemas of Agriculture: ASLE 2025 Panel
This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 (July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland) seeks proposals that attend to the complications of invoking the ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to colonial and Indigenous foodways.
The construct of national cinema is complex and differentially informed by anthropological, text-based, political, and economic approaches. Perhaps most plainly (if not impressionistically) defined by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, national cinema is understood ...
Should Humans Go Extinct? Asking the Big Question with Todd May
In this first episode of our extinction series, we met with Todd May to discuss his new book Should We Go Extinct? A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Times. This massive question is accessibly analyzed yet Todd also brings in issues underdiscussed in extinction discourse: Who is the inexact “we” behind the question, how do different humans contribute to ecological crisis and therefore human and nonhuman extinction, and what is the role of art in deciding whether humanity’s existence should continue? Instead of concluding on ...