Calls for Papers

Call for Abstracts:

Islands as Chronotopes: Geographies of Isolation, Imagination, and Interconnection from Antiquity to the Anthropocene

Editors:

Nikoleta Zampaki, Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of English Studies, University of Information Technology and Management, Poland

Scott Slovic, Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities Emeritus at the University of Idaho, U.S.A.

Andreas Markantonatos, Professor of Greek, Department of Philology, University of the Peloponnese, Greece

Outline:

The study of islands transcends mere physical geography; they are powerful chronotopes, where time and space are densely fused and narratively ...

Please consider submitting abstracts for a guaranteed stream of panels on Early American Environments to be held at next year’s Society of Early Americanists conference (March 18-20, 2027, Chicago; https://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/conferences/upcoming). We are interested in scholarship that considers questions of environment and ecology in the early Americas, broadly defined to include the transatlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific worlds. How are concerns such as climate change, extractivism, and environmental justice or methodologies such as ecocriticism shaping our reading of early American texts and materials? How might ...

“The poetry of witness reclaims the social from the political and in so doing defends the individual against illegitimate forms of coercion.”- Carolyn Forché

“But is it enough that a poem “remembers” when we are now entrenched in an era of total recall?”– Cathy Park Hong, “Against Witness“

Unearthed, the journal of environmental literature and art produced by SUNY ESF, invites submissions for an upcoming issue devoted to witnessing in a time of social and ecological rupture. We welcome work that refuses to look away ...

Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture journal seeks contributions for a special issue on working conditions in the Environmental Humanities. What does a focus on labor reveal about the structures that sponsor or impede our work? How does more-than-human or elemental labor enable our own? We encourage contributions from NTT, adjunct, and other marginalized academic workers, including those whose jobs seemed permanent but were eliminated due to austerity or departmental/institutional closure. We also welcome contributions from those in more secure circumstances engaged in solidarity with ...

University of Bucharest Review

Special issue (2/2026): “From the volcanic to the narrative arc: spectacles of volcanoes in humanities and geosciences”

Guest Editors

Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki, Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Philology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Dr. Paula Wieczorek, Assistant Professor, Department of English Studies, University of Information Technology and Management, Poland

Dr. Paraskevi Nomikou, Professor of Geological Oceanography and Natural Geography, Department of Geology & Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Dr. Andreas Markantonatos, Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Faculty of ...

Ecofeminist Drama: Theatre, Performance, and Ecological Futures Seeking chapters for the edited volume Ecofeminist Drama: Theatre, Performance, and Ecological Futures, currently under review with the University of Illinois Press. We especially invite chapters offering a Blue Humanities perspective. Proposals are due 30 March 2026.

In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne introduced the term ecofeminism in Le féminisme ou la mort, articulating the interwoven domination of women and nature and calling for their collective liberation from systems of patriarchal and ecological exploitation. Since its emergence, ecofeminism has evolved ...

ASLE is seeking submissions for two sessions at MLA 2027 (Los Angeles, California, January 7–10, 2027), one guaranteed and one co-sponsored:

We are seeking pre-formed panel OR individual paper proposals.

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33453.html

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment has one guaranteed session at MLA27; it is already supporting a collaborative, non-guaranteed session (see above). Send CVs and 250-300-word panel OR paper proposals to aslerocksmla@gmail.com by 3/11.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

“The ...

Call for submissions The breath we share: embodied and creative practices for a living and dying world

Deadline for submissions: 15th March 2026 Publication date: Autumn 2026

This new book published by art.earth Books invites all hose who explore the connection and perpetual unfolding between art, environment and embodiment in its multifaceted forms. Open to scholars, artists and researchers from diverse disciplines who wish to highlight the possibilities and impact of somatically-informed practices, research and artistic processes that speak with and to the more-than-human, in order to ...

Edited Volume Call for Manuscripts

Environmental Empathy in Early Childhood Education: Voices from the Global South positions the Global South not merely as a geographical backdrop, but as a central analytical and pedagogical framework for rethinking how young children come to understand, feel, and relate to the natural world in an era of accelerating environmental change. Across regions marked by colonial legacies, economic inequality, ecological vulnerability, and cultural diversity—from tropical rainforests and arid landscapes to rapidly expanding megacities and remote pastoral communities—children in the Global ...

Queer Ecologies Across Socialisms 15-16 October 2026 University of Regensburg, October 15-16, 2026 | CfP deadline: Feb 15, 2026 Organizers: Martyna Miernecka, Paweł Matusz

In literary and arts research on socialist worlds, both queer studies and environmental histories have been expanding – yet we still lack approaches that would systematically integrate these strands across global state socialisms. This conference responds to that gap by inviting work that reads queer practices alongside institutional and environmental policies and traces the queer ecological impulses emerging from socialist contexts across the ...