Deadline: Panel at ASLE 2025
Contact: Jennifer Case, Associate Professor, University of Central Arkansas
Email: jcase@uca.edu

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

The terrain of motherhood/fatherhood–particularly within the environmental humanities–is expanding rapidly into new spheres: social justice, environmental care, and what it means to raise children for a changed atmosphere. This panel will bring together creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists who are contributing to these discussions and exploring the intersection between environmental justice and parenthood. We welcome panelists from any discipline whose work openly questions, interrogates, and meditates on what it means to mother/father or be a parent in an era of climate crisis and environmental transformation. Possible themes include social, reproductive, and ecological justice; the fluid borders of land, air, and body; parenting through air inequality or natural disasters; atmospheric explorations of parenting; and the political and environmental landscapes of nurture and care.

Send abstracts of 300 words or less and a short biographical statement to Jennifer Case at jcase@uca.edu by December 10, 2024.

Posted on October 31, 2024