29th Annual IAEP Meeting
CFP: 29th Annual IAEP Meeting
When: May 22-24, 2025
Location: Denison University
The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2025 annual meeting. To reduce the environmental impact of our environmental philosophy, we hold conferences in-person/hybrid in odd-numbered years, and fully remotely in even-numbered years. But we recognize the value of in-person conferences. This year, perhaps more than ever, we are grateful to gather in-person to strategize and energize around how our work can better pursue justice and support for our human and more-than-human kin.
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Weather(ing)s in Sinophone literature and media: ASLE 2025 Panel
Panel CFP for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park
Weather has proven a multilayered site and methodology for ecological thinking: for Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker, “weathering” goes beyond endurance to a transcorporeal experience of climatic time, while for Sarah Wright, “becoming weather” entails modes of responsiveness and thick engagement that challenge coloniality and environmental injustice. This panel examines Sinophone literature and media that mobilize such atmospheres—from meteorological phenomena to the political, social, and cultural climates co-experienced by humans ...
Building Collectivity through Critical Public Humanities: ASLE 2025 Panel
Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.
In Meredith Lyn Jeffers’ recent piece on public humanities, she argues that “the time has come to reimagine the humanities as an inherently public enterprise that provides an opportunity for collaborating with and understanding the experiences of others. The time has come to practice the humanities, and not just to study them” (551). Heeding this call, this roundtable brings together scholars and community practitioners who have been engaged with ...
Some Fish Know They’re in Water: Creative Critical Anthropomorphism for Writers
Panel proposed for Collective Atmospheres: ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park
Write what you know? Well we’ve learned a lot more recently about the senses, cognition, and emotions of other animals. So how can we write about them in ways that support conservation, compassion, respect, and appreciation? This panel is looking for storytellers who can share challenges, tips, and techniques for creatively incorporating critical anthropomorphism (CA) into their work. CA combines scientific knowledge of animals and their environments ...
Playing Games in Climate and Energy Studies: ASLE 2025 Panel
DEADLINE EXTENDED to DECEMBER 19
Panel at Collective Atmospheres, ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park
Games are not diversions from real-world challenges such as environmental crisis; rather, games are already shaping the planetary future across scales and cultures. Climate-themed board games proliferate, inviting players to strategize potential solutions and envision novel infrastructures. Video games from major studios bring environmental justice themes to enormous player bases, while indie developers experiment with the affects entailed in ecological collapse. Many of us ...
Contemplating Place in Early American Literature
The Society of Early Americanists is seeking conference paper proposals for two society-sponsored panels to be held at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference in Boston. The conference will be held from May 21-24, 2025 at the Westin Copley Place Hotel. Please consider submitting a proposal and sharing this CFP with graduate students and other interested parties.
Boston, New England, and the Northeast hold a deep significance in American literary studies, for instance, in Lisa Brooks’s analysis of “the common pot” in Native conceptions ...
On “Capitalism in the Web of Life”: ASLE 2025 Panel
Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.
Next year marks a decade since Jason W. Moore’s influential Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015). In the book’s robust, post-dualist critical engagement with capitalism, Moore details his theories of World Ecology, Cheap Nature, and the Capitalocene. He argues that late capitalism is not constituted by a duality of nature plus society, but a post-dualist World Ecology of an always-already imbricated nature-culture ...
Cinematic Atmospheres: Aesthetics and Politics of Air in Women’s Ecocinema
Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.
Sponsored by the Ecomedia Interest Group, this guaranteed panel invites contributions exploring the intersection of atmospheric aesthetics and ecocinema through the lens of women filmmakers. Drawing on the conceptualization of air as a medium (Horn 2018) and the philosophy of elemental media (Peters 2016), we examine how cinema, through genre, technique, or form, relates to the material, political, and sensory dimensions of air. This approach fosters a prismatic understanding ...
Airborne Collectivities
Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.
Fleeting, distant, elusive, and often operating beyond the human sensorium, airborne collectivities (birds, bats, insects, microbes, pollen, seeds, etc.) offer new ways of thinking about collective action and environmental histories in an atmospherically challenged planet. This panel seeks papers on the representation of airborne collectivities as environmental agents. What can swarms, flocks, clouds, murmurations, and other flying phenomena tell us about the current state of our damaged planet? How ...
Airborne Gothic: ASLE 2025 Panel
AIRBORNE GOTHIC ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic
This panel sets out to consider how gothic is carried and transmitted through air. Airborne gothic takes many forms: stories told around campfires; plague and Covid narratives; texts featuring ominous flying creatures (birds, bats, and bugs!); radiation/nuclear gothic; propagandistic talk about windmills as killing machines; airplanes or spacecraft as gothic sites; the winds and wutherings that course through so many gothic stories; and more. How do gothic texts evoke unrest, ...