Deadline: 01/06/2025
Contact: Kathleen Burns
Email: kathleen.burns@okstate.edu
ASLE Panel Topic: “Plant Humanities”
This is a call for papers for the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Panel at the American Literature Association Conference: May 21-24, 2025, The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA (in person – Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).
“Plant Humanities” will investigate how plants shape American literary and environmental landscapes, cultural narratives, and material of plants in literature, film, & popular culture:
- Plants in narratology / storytelling / oral traditions
- Plant poetics & politics
- Plants & ethics of care / kinship / reciprocity / veganism
- Plant agency & animacy
- Plants in postcolonial & Indigenous studies
- Plants in national & transnational contexts
- Plants & cultural identities, belonging, heritage, & placemaking
- Scientific & colonial practices surrounding plants (botany, nomenclature, herbaria, etc.)
- Plants & (literary) archives
- Plants in Medical Humanities including bioethics & genetic engineering
- Plants in Energy Humanities, petrocultures, & green technologies
- Cultures of plant cultivation & /or healing (agriculture, gardens, & plant medicine)
- Invasion ecologies / decolonizing invasion ecologies
- Plant consciousness / intelligence / communication
- Arboreal humanities
- Fungal networks & collaborations
Abstracts of 300 words, a bio, and description of AV needs due 01/06/2025. Email to Dr. Kathleen Burns: kathleen.burns@okstate.edu. Hybrid papers that feature researched nonfiction or creative scholarship are welcome.
Panelists must be members of ASLE before May 1, 2025.
The ALA Conference Fee: The registration fee covers the costs of the conference, including the receptions. It does not include any meals. All of those who are on the program are required to pre-register by April 15, 2025. Those who do not register by May 1 will be dropped from the program. The conference fee is $175 with a reduced rate of $125 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired Faculty. Registration Information for the conference will be available on the website in January. We prefer that individuals register online by using the link provided on the ALA website. Individuals may also pay by check along with the registration form, which can be found online after January 1. Please do NOT mail any checks until the registration form is posted.
Posted on October 21, 2024
