Deadline: December 3, 2024
Contact: Chris Hall (University of the Ozarks) and Brendan Johnston (University of California, Davis)
Email: chall@ozarks.edu
This is a panel CFP for the 2025 Biennial Conference: Collective Atmospheres, to be held July 8-11, 2025, at the University of Maryland.
In a 2023 essay for SubStance, Luce Irigaray remarked that it is “subtlety that grants air its universal potential and its ability to act as a mediation, not only between the different parts of us, but also between the different living beings.” This non-guaranteed ASLE 2025 panel of traditional scholarly papers invites proposals for presentations that speak to the capacity of poetry to put air into those gaps within the living by creating breathable space within bodies, subjectivities, and identities and/or between self and other, human and nonhuman, living and nonliving. Proposals should directly or indirectly address the ecological implications of reading global Anglophone poetry as a matter of life and breath, as an endeavor of language, thought, and/or sound that aspirates meaning, affect, and sense and so takes on life in the world-making processes of fostering universality without sameness within and beyond the conventionally living.
From this vantage, proposals might address feminist ecopoetics and the mediation of living difference, biopower/biopolitics and the gaps and gasps of identity and taxonomy, posthumanism and the pant of animal proximity, blackness and transness and writing the fugitive winds of the living, the aesthetics of poetic breathlessness and recovery, or poetry’s capacity for speaking transnationally and transclimatically. Other themes that activate ecopoetics via the respiratory humanities are welcome as well. Taken together, this panel intends to pursue an ethics of the living through poetry’s discovered breezes, which allow us to reach out to others in an intimacy without assimilation or incursion by evoking living air between us.
Submit a 300-word abstract by December 3, 2024 to Chris Hall (University of the Ozarks) and Brendan Johnston (University of California, Davis) at chall@ozarks.edu.
Posted on October 14, 2024
