Calls for Contributions

CFP: Comics and Ecopolitics

Special issue of Comicalités, edited by Armelle Blin-Rolland, Margaret C. Flinn, and Johanna Sellman

Complete CFP available in English below. Both calls available on the Comicalités website here:

EN : https://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/8174

FR : https://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/8171

Argument As awareness of climate emergency and the sixth mass extinction has permeated the mainstream in recent years, there has been an explosion of environmentally themed comics, in the context of a broader trend in cultural productions and debates. While this contemporary wave of ‘EcoComix’ (Dobrin 2020) is unprecedented in terms ...

Queer and Trans Climate Futures

Special Cluster for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)

Guest Edited by Austin Lillywhite and Davy Knittle

Call for Submissions (also found online at tinyurl.com/QueerandTransClimateFutures)

How do conversations about climate futures change queer and trans studies—and, in turn, how do queer and trans studies reframe environmental humanities approaches to climate precarity? Given queer and trans studies’ twin emphases on reframing queer- and trans-phobic accusations of ontological “unnaturalness” on the one hand, and negotiating the politics of how racialized expectations of gender and ...

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: IJFAB

Call for papers for a special issue

Bioethics for the biosphere: Exploring climate (in)justice

Special issue editors: Beth Anne Bee & Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

Climate change is a global threat to human and environmental wellbeing. Mitigating this threat and preventing further planetary deterioration through social transformation and policy change raise numerous and urgent issues of ethics and justice from bodily to global scales. What is at stake is how to keep a livable planet. Such issues are at the heart ...

Call for Papers, Edited volume: (Re)imagining Feminisms at the Atlantic Edge

Catherine Bush’s 2019 novel Blaze Island opens with the following epigraph from Elena Ferrante: “Pressing changes are underway. Everything is becoming something else, unpredictably. A completely new outlook is required. The challenge now and for the foreseeable future is to extract ourselves from what men have engineered, a planet long on the edge of catastrophe.” Throughout the novel, Bush underscores the importance of thinking critically about boundaries, specifically those of gender and geography, ...

Diálogos: the Journal of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras is excited to announce a call for papers for a special issue on the topic of Environmental Philosophy to appear in the Winter of 2023.

We invite paper submissions on any topic in environmental philosophy broadly construed. Possible topics include sustainability, the nature of wilderness, ethics of terraforming, conservation & de-extinction, environmental activism, climate change, wildlife, Indigenous rights, environmental aesthetics, and environmental ethics in outer space.

Environmental philosophy has ...

Call for submissions for Journal of Comparative American Studies

Wendy McMahon and Rebecca Tillett

“Wild Possibility”: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene

The editors invite contributors to submit proposals for a special issue of Comparative American Studies on literatures of the American hemisphere, from Alaska to Argentina, Canada to the Caribbean, to the US Pacific Island Region, and their engagement with Anthropogenic climate change. The complex and contentious histories, geopolitics, and interrelated histories of colonial domination, oppression, dispossession, and dislocation of the American ...

Journal of Ecohumanism invites contributors to submit their articles. Submission Deadline: rolling basis yearly

Journal of Ecohumanism aims to open up new possibilities in reconfiguring the multidimensional interplays among humans and the more-than-human world by focusing on the structure, mechanics, functionalities, and representations of this interplay manifested across ecohumanist and civil contexts. Since Environmental Humanities ample research has looked at variable aspects of ecological citizenship, we have to focus on globalization’s temporality in the rise of Citizen Humanities. In this sense, we are in the ...

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Music and the Environment

Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning based at Boston University is currently soliciting essays for a special issue on the intersection of music and the environment. The issue is scheduled for online publication in January 2024. Submissions across all academic disciplines are welcome. We welcome, too, contributions from musicians and individuals working in the music industry. We are particularly interested in the ways musicians, composers, lyricists, and audiences have addressed or responded ...

CALL FOR PAPERS  

for a topical issue of Open Cultural Studies

PLAGUE AS METAPHOR 

Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/CULTURE) invites submissions for a topical issue on “Plague as Metaphor,” edited by Nahum Welang (University of Stavanger, Norway).

From Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1602) to Edvard Munch’s painting Self-Portrait After the Spanish Flu (1919-20) to Albert Camus’s The Plague (1947), works of literature and visual culture have a rich tradition of contemplating the impact of plagues on everyday life, and in Susan Sontag’s seminal text Illness as Metaphor, she argues that artists have ...

Special Theme on Latinx Recreation in Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal

Co-edited by Gabriela Nuñez, David Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah D. Wald

Abstracts Due: February 1, 2023

This special theme brings together two overlapping areas: Latinx environmentalisms and Latinx leisure and outdoor recreation. Latinx communities’ and cultures’ relationships to natural history and outdoor recreation is a growing area of interest in Latinx studies and in the environmental humanities. We aim to provide cultural and historic context to contemporary efforts to diversify conservation and outdoor ...