Calls for Papers

MLA 2025 Panel: Prison Abolition/Environmental Justice

Prison Abolition/Environmental Justice: Creative and Critical Approaches

Please find below a CFP for a non-guaranteed session at MLA 2025 sponsored by ASLE: “Prison Abolition/Environmental Justice: Creative and Critical Approaches.”

Call for Papers: MLA 2025 in New Orleans (January 9–12) Organizers: Dr. Jane Robbins Mize (Hamilton College) and Dr. Isabel Lane (Harvard University) Supported by: ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment)

The working group “Products of Our Environment,” a collaboration between scholars, artists, and activists inside and outside of prison, invites proposals for academic ...

Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum Sessions at MLA 2025

MLA 2025 Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum Sessions CFPs

Forms of Water, Forms of Life This panel invites blue humanities perspectives on literary forms, life/forms, and waters. Papers may address multispecies ecologies inclusive of the human, and varied scales of water–from droplets, to streams, to the transoceanic. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 10 March 2024 Melody Jue, University of California Santa Barbara (melody.jue@gmail.com)

Histories and Legacies of Hurricane Katrina Invites papers on environmental and cultural histories, impacts, afterlives of Hurricane Katrina as the twentieth anniversary approaches. Comparative work on Katrina in ...

Breaking New Grounds Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.

Breaking New Grounds: Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries.

Date: 27 September 2024 Venue: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. A one-day conference organised by Clémence Laburthe-Tolra (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, EMMA) and Aurélien Wasilewski (Law & Humanities, CERSA, UMR 7106, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas).

This conference stems from a reflection on the social and political dimensions of gardens and gardening in Great Britain ranging from the Victorian and Edwardian eras to the post-war period. Pondering on “People’s Gardens,” Vita Sackville-West claimed that “we have been called a ...

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call-For-Presentations for Northwestern University Environment, Culture, and Society Symposium

(AT)TENSION: EMBRACING INDETERMINACY THROUGH OBSERVATION, ATTUNEMENT, AND OTHER EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE-MAKING UNDER THE CLIMATE CRISIS

As the Environmental Humanities continues its solidification as a field of study and specialization, the discipline and its methodologies are at risk of reifying the violences that occur when experimental and emerging methods are codified within pre-existing institutional logics. How can the Environmental Humanities keep its nimbleness, its indeterminacy, its commitment to epistemological justice, in order to resist the pitfalls of standardization? How might scholars, artists, and practitioners escape their enfolding into ...

ASLE Sessions at MLA 2025

ASLE has issued two CFPs for the 2025 MLA Convention, which will take place January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA:

Panel 1: New Cyborg Manifestos and Natureculture Stories: The Next Forty Years

Guaranteed panel (likely roundtable) sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, with a response from Donna Haraway

In 2025, Donna Haraway’s most famous essay, “A Cyborg Manifesto,” will turn forty. Many find “Situated Knowledges” equally significant; indeed we could make a long list of cross-disciplinary interventions from this famed biologist ...

Oceanic Melville: Melville Society Conference 2025

Fourteenth International Melville Society Conference University of Connecticut (maritime campus), Avery Point, Connecticut, USA Dates: June 16-19, 2025 Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 2024

Conference Theme: Oceanic Melville

Meditation and water are wedded forever. Moby-Dick, Chapter 1

The oceans cover two thirds of our planet’s surface and are responsible for over half of our oxygen and one fifth of our nutrition. They are in trouble. And when the oceans are in trouble, so are we. “Oceans,” Anthropocene Institute

Herman ...

The WIld City – 2025 MLA

In his essay “Walking,” Henry David Thoreau proclaims, “…in wildness is the preservation of the world.” As the world continues to urbanize, it’s as important as ever to identify the diverse ways that humans interact with wildness in cities and reflect on how these interactions inform our understanding of, relationship to, and impact on nature. This special session seeks papers that consider encounters of wildness in urban landscapes as depicted in literature, film, photography, music, video games, and other cultural texts from all ...

ASLE-UKI Biennial Postgraduate Conference

Arts of Noticing: Attention and the Environment

5-6 September 2024 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Eva Haifa Giraud (University of Sheffield) Alycia Pirmohamed (University of Cambridge)

The 2024 postgraduate conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network at the University of Edinburgh. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from postgraduate and early career scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, arts, environments and cultures – past, present, or future from anywhere in ...

Energy, Empire, and Extractivism in the Age of Conrad

Energy, Empire, and Extractivism in the Age of Conrad

May 14-15, 2024, Université Paris Cité, France

“The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s Sans transition (2024) has shown that the succession of energy systems (from wood to coal, oil, nuclear, and renewables) has entailed exponential increases of all previous sources, as all sources are in a symbiotic relation ...

“Future Library, Invisible Archive?” CLCS Nordic Forum Panel MLA 2025

2024 marks ten years since the creation of Future Library (2014-2114, Katie Paterson), a multisite artwork that comprises a forest in Norway, an anthology of literature by world renowned authors to be kept secret until its publication in 2114, and a reading room inside Deichman public library where the manuscripts are housed. In conjunction with the 2025 MLA convention’s presidential theme, “Visibility,” this panel, organized by the CLCS Nordic Forum, asks how and whether Future Library serves as an (in)visible planetary archive. We ...

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