Calls for Papers

“Like the other great revolutions, the coming sustainability revolution will also change the face of the land and the foundations of human identities, institutions, and cultures. Like the previous revolutions, it will take centuries to unfold fully­–though it is already under way.” – Donnella Meadows

The Ecology & Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association is soliciting abstracts for papers/presentations at the 2027 National Conference, March 24-27 in Boston. Our Ecology & Culture Area theme this year is “Ecocultural Sensibility and the Sustainability Revolution” (other ...

My colleague Lisa Blackmore and I are organizing an in-person seminar for the 2027 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting titled “Watering the Fields: Porous Hydrocritical Practice in Precarious Times.”

The seminar asks how humanistic and artistic water research can move beyond conventional academic formats and communities. We welcome work on collaborations among humanities scholars, artists, activists, scientists, legal practitioners, and communities; river co-learning arenas and water schools; countermapping, data, and digital humanities projects; and creative practices of hydrocommoning. We are particularly interested in ...

 Encountering the non-human other: Interspecies empathy in global narrative media

Seminar within the American Comparative Literature Association’s (ACLA) annual convention in Houston, Texas, May 20th to 23rd, 2027

In recent years, fields like posthumanism, ecocriticism and critical animal studies have repeatedly discussed “[…] how the richness and complexity of non-human experience can be conveyed in a narrative that was created by a human mind” (Weik von Mossner, Affective Ecologies, 111). To delineate the boundary between a “[…] potentially transformative mode […] of access to the ...

Reading the Naval Lexicon: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Maritime Power and Ecology

Submission deadline: 31 March 2027

This special issue of Social Sciences & Humanities Open proposes a convergent method by reading the sea across interdisciplinary domains, like language and narrative, literature, media, and representation, and socio-educational practices (including ecological and infrastructural dimensions).

Guest editors:

Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki – University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszów, Poland

Dr. Paula Wieczorek – University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszów, Poland

Special issue information:

This special issue advances the emerging field of “hydro-criticism” ...

Panel at the 2027 NeMLA Convention

This panel invites theoretical and pedagogical explorations of experiential approaches to teaching environmental studies in higher education through the frameworks of new materialism, transcorporeality, affect theory, and embodied pedagogy. Aligning with NeMLA 2027’s theme, “Empowering Communities,” the panel examines how environmental learning can move beyond hierarchical and text-centered models toward collaborative, community-oriented, and experiential forms of knowledge production. Drawing on theorists such as Stacy Alaimo, Donna Haraway, and Jane Bennett, the panel foregrounds pedagogies that cultivate ecological agency ...

Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)

Held March 6-9, 2027, Newport RI.

This roundtable envisions writing as a collaborative act and centers writings that empower Environmental Justice communities. How have/do writing communities negotiate and enact environmental justice? How do writing communities disseminate scientific and technical information towards environmental action and justice? Participants in this roundtable are encouraged to consider:

o How does/can writing raise collective environmental consciousness?

o Writing in the ...

This special issue of American Literature will highlight new work in queer ecology that engages and extends concepts of queer time developed by theorists such as Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, Elizabeth Freeman, José Muñoz, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Carolyn Dinshaw, and others. Moving beyond investigations of sexual and gender diversity in nature—a central focus of queer ecological scholarship since its crystallization fifteen years ago—we seek to chart new directions in the field as queer ecology metabolizes the temporal turn in queer studies alongside of ...

Transhistorical Plantings, Transnational Provision Grounds Virtual Symposium Feb. 25th-26th 2027

The plantation’s agribiopolitical reorganization of environmental and (enviro-)racial relations has remained a focus of scholarship concerned with the afterlives of its logics. Yet, as Sylvia Wynter has argued, other narrative sites produced by and in dialogue with the plantation, such as the provision grounds, offer a means to think beyond the plantation’s hegemonic, monocultural narrative. In the Caribbean context of Wynter’s work, the provision grounds were found at the edge of the plantation hidden away from ...

Call for Papers: Edited Volume Mycelia across Media: Creative Expression and the Fungal Turn In the 2020s, mushrooms are having a moment: in the face of ubiquitous crisis in recent years, fungi have moved from the peripheries of scientific and cultural consciousness to the center of interdisciplinary inquiry. As researchers across the natural sciences, human medicine, bioengineering, construction, and textile industries have illuminated fungi’s ecological adaptability, sustainability, biochemical capacities, and technological promise, scholars and research networks in disciplines such as anthropology and cultural theory have ...

How to speak with(in) the earth? Situated knowledges, unnaming methods, and visions from the threshold

“I could not chatter away as I used to do, taking it all for granted. My words now must be as slow, as new, as single, as tentative as the steps I took going down the path away from the house…” Ursula K. Le Guin, “She Unnames Them,” The New Yorker (January 21, 1985)

The question “How to speak with(in) the earth?” is not a metaphor but a political, ontological, and epistemic ...