Calls for Papers

Are there any other ASLE/AESS folks out there who have been involved in starting organic vegetable gardens and/or pollinator sanctuaries on their campuses or in their communities who would like to be part of a panel for the upcoming conference that explores aspects of that experience? Such projects help to “reclaim the commons” in numerous and joyous ways. Gardens and pollinator sanctuaries reclaim space on college campuses for the nurturance of our spirits. They provide spaces for genuine experiential learning related to sustainable ...

We are delighted to share the CfP for our upcoming RHOME 2023 conference, Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English. (Dis)locations: The Shifting Thematics of Home. The conference will take place at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, on the 22nd and 23rd June 2023.

Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English

(Dis)locations: the shifting thematics of home

School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon

University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES)

22-23 June 2023

Extended Deadline 20/01/2023

The ULICES Representations ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

This panel seeks to examine diverse examples of cultural production engaging with environmental issues in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal through a critical cultural studies lens. We are especially interested in papers that examine theoretical approaches and cultural works such as film, literature, performances, or music articulated from these regions—and in Spanish, Portuguese, or Indigenous languages—that enter into critical dialogue with global debates surrounding an ecological commons.

Some ...

Disruptive Imaginations Joint Annual Conference of SFRA and GfF TU Dresden, Germany, August 15-19, 2023

This conference will merge the annual meetings of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and the German Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF). With some overlap in membership and a shared interest and mission, we believe that a joint conference offers great potential for dynamic exchange, constructive discussions, and new insights and perspectives. This expanded focus on SFF allows for a consideration of a wide range of genres and forms ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Public lands in the US West are palimpsests of signs, including pictographs, inscriptions, benchmarks, boundary signage, interpretive signage, trail registries, geocaches, maps, field guides, literary texts, and more. These signs and traces of Indigenous inhabitation, colonialism from Spanish, Mormon, and other Euroamerican settlers, diasporic dwellings and departures tear and wrinkle these spaces into both literary and literal topographies. During their first century under public management, these lands ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons” July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Organized by The Hazel Collective

Contemporary theorists of the common argue that the common is not a physical space or resource, but rather an activity: to common. Thus, the commons do not exist a priori, but are a process by which selves, collectives, and society might be remade. Yet few of us have been raised with such commoning practices. As we work to reclaim the commons, can the ...

Dear ASLE Community,

I’m writing to share the Call for Papers for the International Steinbeck Society Conference in San Jose from March 22-24 2023.

You’ll find the full CFP below, but there are a few updates and details worth noting • Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis with a submission cutoff date of December 15 2022. • We welcome undergraduate submissions for a poster session of student work • To ensure an accessible conference experience, the conference will accept digital/hybrid paper presentations, which will be shared ...

Guaranteed panel at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference “Reclaiming the Commons”, sponsored by the Eco-critical Visual Culture interest group.

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland Oregon

Topics might include:

— Land Commons and Enclosures — Gleaning and gleaners –imaging and re-imagining the commons –utopian commons/ communes / communities –wild food commons –wild animal populations as “resources” –ocean and shoreline commons: wrack, drift, ambiguity –Going to waste / landscape as “wasteland” –Commons as ruin or “resources” –“Improvement” and the clearances of industrial agriculture

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Maura Coughlin, m.coughlin@northeastern.edu by ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

As Dipesh Chakrabarty (2021) has noted, many recent critical reflections on the Anthropocene fail to consider the perspective of anticolonial modernization movements. Irreducible to mere mimicries of western modernity, such movements display an emancipationist – even spiritual – impulse that continues to shape political and economic aspirations across the “global South,” where the idea that the larger project of modernity ought to be abandoned is finding little ...

Most critics believe that the world has inherited nothing from the dominant capitalist culture save social and ecological crises. Poverty, racism, sexism and other forms of social inequality have spread all over the world and with that the natural ...