Calls for Papers

Newberry Library Scholarly Seminar – “Premodern Ecologies” Application deadline: July 7, 2025

This seminar provides a forum for new approaches to classical, medieval, and early modern studies, allowing scholars from a range of disciplines to share work-in-progress with the broader community at the Center for Renaissance Studies. We meet four times a year, and every meeting is free and open to the public.

Our theme for this year is “Premodern Ecologies,” and our aim is to explore the entanglements of nature and culture and of the ...

PAMLA Conference (Nov. 20-23 in San Francisco) (Panel / In-Person) American / Poetry and Form

For Robinson Jeffers the ruggedly beautiful Big Sur region of the California coast with its remote ranches offered, he noted in the Foreword to his Selected Poetry, a view of “life purged of ephemeral accretions” yet also “conscious” of the “modern world” and “capable of expressing its spirit.” For Jeffers, Nature was both being in its ultimate form and a vantage point for critiquing “civilization,” and the poetry he developed ...

29th meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy “Justice Centering Marginal Voices”

May 22–24, 2025 in person at Denison University (with hybrid online access by Zoom)

Keynote Address by Dr. Dylan Robinson, D.Phil. (University of British Columbia) on interpellation in the form of trees (formal title TBA)

The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2025 annual meeting. To reduce the environmental impact of our environmental philosophy, we hold conferences in-person/hybrid in odd-numbered years, and fully remotely in even-numbered years. But we recognize the value of in-person conferences. ...

International Conference

Queer Ecology and the Temporal Imagination

26 – 27 February 2026 University of Tübingen Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD)

Organised by Gero Bauer and Davina Höll

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sylvan Goldberg (Colorado College)

Call for Abstracts

In recent political discourse, there has been a striking correlation between questions relating to the environment, the climate crisis, and environmental justice on the one hand and gender and sexuality on the other. At the same time, the climate crisis (and its denial) has been increasingly framed in terms of ...

ASLE-Sponsored Panel at the 2025 Western Literature Association Conference Oklahoma City, OK, Sept. 21-24

Open Topic: The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment invites innovative paper proposals on any topic that integrates western North American literary/cultural studies with environmental themes or concerns. We particularly welcome proposals from graduate students and contingent faculty.

WLA 2025 is a call to action to critically examine and celebrate the multicultural foundations of western literature. We look forward to your contributions in shaping this important dialogue. The conference theme ...

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment will sponsor one guaranteed session at MLA 2026 (January 8-11 in Toronto, ON, Canada), and also has the option of supporting an additional non-guaranteed session. At MLA 2025 in New Orleans, we had a crowd well over 100 for our guaranteed session on Donna Haraway, and were also successful in supporting a second, nonguaranteed panel on carceral environments, so there is recent momentum for strong ASLE sessions at this conference.

For 2026, there is no ...

CFP: 29th Annual IAEP Meeting

When: May 22-24, 2025

Location: Denison University

The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2025 annual meeting. To reduce the environmental impact of our environmental philosophy, we hold conferences in-person/hybrid in odd-numbered years, and fully remotely in even-numbered years. But we recognize the value of in-person conferences. This year, perhaps more than ever, we are grateful to gather in-person to strategize and energize around how our work can better pursue justice and support for our human and more-than-human kin.

Our ...

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 ...

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

In Meredith Lyn Jeffers’ recent piece on public humanities, she argues that “the time has come to reimagine the humanities as an inherently public enterprise that provides an opportunity for collaborating with and understanding the experiences of others. The time has come to practice the humanities, and not just to study them” (551). Heeding this call, this roundtable brings together scholars and community practitioners who have been engaged with ...

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

Write what you know? Well we’ve learned a lot more recently about the senses, cognition, and emotions of other animals. So how can we write about them in ways that support conservation, compassion, respect, and appreciation? This panel is looking for storytellers who can share challenges, tips, and techniques for creatively incorporating critical anthropomorphism (CA) into their work. CA combines scientific knowledge of animals and their environments ...