Ecocritical Visual Cultures of the Commons

Deadline: Dec 15, 2022
Contact: Maura Coughlin, Teaching Professor, Northeastern University, Boston
Email: m.coughlin@northeastern.edu
Phone: 5087765902

Guaranteed panel at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference “Reclaiming the Commons”, sponsored by the Eco-critical Visual Culture interest group.

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland Oregon

Topics might include:

— Land Commons and Enclosures
— Gleaning and gleaners
–imaging and re-imagining the commons
–utopian commons/ communes / communities
–wild food commons
–wild animal populations as “resources”
–ocean and shoreline commons: wrack, drift, ambiguity
–Going to waste / landscape as “wasteland”
–Commons as ruin or “resources”
–“Improvement” and the clearances of industrial agriculture

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Maura Coughlin, m.coughlin@northeastern.edu by December 15, 2022.

Posted on October 24, 2022