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

Fleeting, distant, elusive, and often operating beyond the human sensorium, airborne collectivities (birds, bats, insects, microbes, pollen, seeds, etc.) offer new ways of thinking about collective action and environmental histories in an atmospherically challenged planet. This panel seeks papers on the representation of airborne collectivities as environmental agents. What can swarms, flocks, clouds, murmurations, and other flying phenomena tell us about the current state of our damaged planet? How …