Sensing the Future: ASLE 2025 Panel
Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.
Inspired by the conference theme “Collective Atmospheres,” this panel considers how material bodies scry the winds sweeping towards future collectives. The theme invites reflections about atmospheric apprehension: the ways in which the human sensorium enables subjects to perceive otherwise-unseen aspects of our shared material and social environment, what it is and what it could become. In that spirit, this panel seeks papers that consider how bodies–differentiated across multiple axes, ...
Parenting for/in a Changed Atmosphere: ASLE 2025 Panel
Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.
The terrain of motherhood/fatherhood–particularly within the environmental humanities–is expanding rapidly into new spheres: social justice, environmental care, and what it means to raise children for a changed atmosphere. This panel will bring together creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists who are contributing to these discussions and exploring the intersection between environmental justice and parenthood. We welcome panelists from any discipline whose work openly questions, interrogates, and meditates on what ...
Critical Question of Animal Cultures
The Critical Question of Animal Cultures
Considering the challenge nonhuman animal cultures and field of cultural biology posed to the humanist idea of culture in 2014, it appeared that when ecocriticism discussed “culture as such in the last decade and a half, it has often been in the process of contesting a view of nature as a cultural construction. … In this tired debate, ecocritics, busy refuting an erasure of nature, and other theorists, busy asserting the primacy of culture, both end up affirming ...