Deadline: Dec. 1, 2022
Contact: Brad Monsma, California State University, Channel Islands
Email: brad.monsma@csuci.edu
Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
This panel seeks original contributions to the literature of salmon in any genre: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, long-form journalism, investigative reporting, new media. The vitality of wild salmon has long fed the shifting ecologies, cultures, and economies of the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Rim continents and islands. Salmon, past and present, locate multigenerational efforts by elders and experts to sustain disrupted communal management practices. Salmon also ask us to face the challenges of the negative commons–particular colonial legacies of loss, intersecting waste streams, climate change, and pervasive hyperobjects of the Anthropocene. Salmon challenge local experiences with scale and complexity.
Salmon invite thinking and action toward cultural and ecological resilience, toward the futures of place identities, belonging(s), and creative practices. They ask us to reimagine the vast material and spiritual entanglements between species on land, in rivers, and in oceans.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Indigenous salmon cultures
Treaty rights and sovereignty issues
Current monitoring and restoration efforts
Community/citizen science projects
Watershed histories
Climate justice and shifting ecologies
Evolving practices of salmon communities
Accounts of activist and legal work
Fishing cultures and economies
International perspectives, reflections on borders
Anadromous Southern California Steelhead
Food practices, food justice
Please submit a 200 word proposal for a 10-minute creative work (in addition to your name, email, and a short bio) in an email to Brad Monsma (Brad.Monsma@csuci.edu) by December 1, 2022.* Feel free to email with questions regarding your proposal before submitting. I’ll respond to all submissions and notify those included on the panel by December 10.
*This call is for a pre-formed panel, which will be submitted to the conference organizers at the end of December. More information on the panel’s potential acceptance will come shortly thereafter.
Posted on October 6, 2022
