Calls for Papers

A Mostly Screen-Free, Zine-Full, Remote-Participation Conference on Experimental Methods for Research and Research Exchange

https://diymethods.net/

ABOUT

As the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to solve real problems in our daily lives and account for the constitutive effects of ...

The Promises and Limitations of Entangled Thinking in the Environmental Humanities

Guaranteed Panel of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

MLA 2024 (Jan. 4-7, Philadelphia, PA)

Panel Organizer: Sean Collins | University of Utah | u1140127@utah.edu

Deadline for Abstracts: Please email 350-word abstracts and CV by March 24th

Overview Entanglement—and related concepts like networks, enmeshment, imbrication, and relationality—is central to EH scholarship. At the core of these concepts is the notion of a relational ontology that does not clearly delineate between humans/nonhumans, self/other, and nature/culture. Instead, ...

Solarpunk Joy: Celebrating beyond Sorrow Proposed panel for MLA 2024, Philadelphia, PA January 4-7

This is a non-guaranteed allied panel with the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.

Panel Organizers • Phoebe Wagner | Lycoming College | wagnerp@lycoming.edu • Heather O’Leary | Illinois State University | hmolear@ilstu.edu

Deadline for Abstracts: Please email 250-word abstracts, with a 100-word bio, to the panel organizers by Sunday, March 19.

How do we overcome climate grief on the way to communal joy? Find comfort in a place of despair? Seeking papers ...

Call for proposals for the 2024 Modern Language Association conference to be held in Philadelphia:

What potential do “vegetal afterlives” or “vegetal resistance” (Marder) offer the recent human crises of war, pandemic, or systemic racism? Work on performance, literature, or culture widely defined welcome. Please send a 250 word abstract and brief bio.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Send to: Alicia Carroll, Auburn University (carroal@auburn.edu) Courtney Ryan, University at Albany, SUNY (cryan@albany.edu)

2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia, PA. A guaranteed session organized by the 19th-Century French LLC Forum. A roundtable with short papers on different forms of recycling (environmental waste, theories of sustainability, literary traditions, political regimes, etc.) in 19th-century French studies. Submit a 250-word abstract to quandtk@wabash.edu and ao358@georgetown.edu by March 15, 2023.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting

14–16 October 2023 Toronto, ON, Canada

The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our annual meeting, immediately following SPEP, in Canada’s largest city Toronto.

Keynote Speaker Stephanie LeMenager University of Oregon

IAEP invites proposals for individual papers as well as organized panels on any aspect of environmental philosophy. Papers in areas touching on LeMenager’s work–the anthropocene, resource exploration, feminist and interdisciplinary approaches to environmental philosophy, etc.—would certainly be welcome.

Papers should be limited to 20 minutes reading time, but ...

ASLE invites members to submit proposals on any environmental humanities topic for ASLE-sponsored panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia, PA.

If you are interested in organizing a panel, please direct questions and 200-word proposals to ASLE’s MLA liaison Clare Echterling at cechterling@caldwell.edu by February 10, 2023.

The Journal of Ecohumanism which is published by Transnational Press London organizes a three-day online conference on the topic of:

Recent Approaches to the Environmental Humanities. Literary and Cultural Reflections on the Human and More-Than-Human World.

Dates: 17th-19th of November 2023 Format: online

Confirmed Keynote Speakers of the Conference’s Round Table: Peggy Karpouzou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Roberto Marchesini, Centro Studi Filosofia Postumanista, Italy Pramod K. Nayar, The University of Hyderabad, India Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, United States of America Coordinator: Nikoleta Zampaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Environmental Humanities ...

International Conference: “Infrastructures of Racism and the Contours of Black Vitality and Resistance.”

University of Torino (Italy), 23-25 March 2023

This conference intends to explore the continuing and systemic infrastructures of racism, in light of the discriminatory nature of spatial politics and techniques of population management organized along racial lines in the United States. Our entry point into such discussion will be the analysis of material systems—infrastructures— as a tangible trace of the institutional impact on the lives of racialized people in the U.S., from ...

The interstitial, according to Erik Olin Wright, constitutes a set of marginal practices within a dominant power structure that remain relatively autonomous from the governing logic of that system. From this location, “new forms of social relations that embody emancipatory ideals and that are created primarily through direct action of one sort or another rather than through the state” can take shape, prefiguring a society liberated from the law of value’s unequal calculus (Wright 2010, 324). This panel examines interstitial forms and relations ...