Deadline: January 10, 2025
Contact: Casey Tilley and Bangce Cheng, Penn State University
Email: ect5186@psu.edu

Panel CFP for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park

Weather has proven a multilayered site and methodology for ecological thinking: for Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker, “weathering” goes beyond endurance to a transcorporeal experience of climatic time, while for Sarah Wright, “becoming weather” entails modes of responsiveness and thick engagement that challenge coloniality and environmental injustice. This panel examines Sinophone literature and media that mobilize such atmospheres—from meteorological phenomena to the political, social, and cultural climates co-experienced by humans and nonhumans—to consider the conditions and futures of collective existence in local and translocal geographies of the Sinophone world.

Our panel currently has two confirmed presentations, one on smog literature from Beijing and one on acid rain and soil degradation in contemporary Chinese periodical poetry. We welcome proposals on topics including (but not limited to): climate change and disaster; weather as place-based and transregional/transnational/transcontinental agents; the emotional, affective, and ambient dimensions of weather; weather and (de)colonization; the politics of air conditioning; collective practices of “weathering” that foster kinship, resilience, and alternative modes of existence.

Please submit an abstract of 200-300 words and a short bio to Casey Tilley (ect5186@psu.edu) and Bangce Cheng (bmc6144@psu.edu) by January 10.

Posted on January 5, 2025