Calls for Papers

Full CfP: https://airproject.univie.ac.at/conferences/

The virtual conference “From the Black Death to COVID-19: Airborne Diseases in History, Literature, and Culture,” organized as part of the FWF project “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” invites you to submit an abstract for consideration. The aim of this conference is to highlight health and medical perspectives on airborne diseases and pandemics, particularly in relation to their historical representation in Anglophone and postcolonial cultural and literary narratives. Presentations will take an in-depth look at how these representations ...

FRENCH STUDIES – Panel Call for proposals at SAMLA 2022

“Challenging Humanity’s Answers to Nature’s Global Evolution (*CHANGE): Anthropocene Poetics of French and Francophone Literature and Cinema”

Through History, French and Francophone intellectuals and artists have frequently represented the ever-changing human relationship with Nature through their works. Yet, since the Industrial Revolution, people must not only adapt to their environment to thrive, but they are also defined by it. The implications of climate change for ecological, physical, and sociological systems are profound and disturbing. “The ...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting 22–24 June 2022 St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our first ever stand-alone conference to be held in Edmonton, Alberta, just a few hours drive from the sublime Canadian Rockies.

IAEP invites proposals for individual papers as well as organized panels on any aspect of environmental philosophy.

Meeting on our own gives us the opportunity to give presenters more time than we’ve been able to do at ...

Conference dates – March 24-25, 2022 Organisers: Dr Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián and Dr Angelos Theocharis at Durham University, UK

Registration is now open. Here is the registration link for the conference. Find the programme on the conference website.

The “Delta Futures: (In)Visibilities in Audiovisual Culture” is a transdisciplinary conference aiming to explore the representations in audiovisual culture of the socioecological challenges faced by river delta communities around the world, as well as the relevant cultural strategies and practices employed by vulnerable groups confronted with climate change. ...

Water Works: The Arts of Water Management, 1500-1800 Institute of Humanities, Northumbria University, 22 June 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS At a time of environmental crisis, studying histories of the manipulation of natural resources has never been more important. While our ancestors used different terms to talk of such matters, they engaged with (or stridently disengaged from) the same questions.

This symposium, which has been generously supported by the Institute of Humanities at Northumbria University (UK), aims to draw together expertise from across disciplines to engage with managed ...

Collaborative Textual Production and/in Environmental Thought

Non-guaranteed ASLE Panel for MLA 2023

Social scientists studying environmental justice in the United States such as Laura Pulido (1996) and Tracy Perkins (2021) have noted for decades that various EJ efforts have involved or succeed because they involved collaborations across ethnic or racial lines, but there remains little scholarship on such collaborations or collaborative authorship more broadly in many areas of the environmental humanities. Studies of collaborative authorship, such as Linda Karell’s Writing Together, Writing Apart (2002), do ...

Environmental Justice in Young People’s Literature Guaranteed session, MLA Genre Studies/GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum

Moderators: Nathalie op de Beeck (Pacific Lutheran University) Clare Echterling (Caldwell University)

Scholarship on young people’s literature has begun to address environmental studies at the same time children’s literature and publishing have seen progress toward diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Lion and the Unicorn 45.2 (April 2021) recently published a special issue on “Children’s Literature and Climate Change,” co-edited by Marek Oziewicz and Lara Saguisag, examining decolonial strategies, queer studies, ableism, ...

AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENTS OF TURKEY JOINT GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2022

April 28-29, 2022 Online

http://www.asdturkey2022.hacettepe.edu.tr/en

CALL FOR PAPERS

Hosted by Hacettepe University’s American Studies Department

In collaboration with the American Studies Departments of Ankara University, Atatürk University, Başkent University, Bilkent University, Dokuz Eylül University,

Ege University, Haliç University, and İstanbul University

The Lure of Science and Technology in American Culture and Literature

Past, Present, Future

A long time ago, there lived a skillful scientist who had

experienced a spiritual reaction more striking than

any chemical one.

–from Hawthorne, “The ...

Proposals are now being accepted for the ASLE sponsored panel at the Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association (RMMLA) annual convention. This year’s conference will take place October 13-15, 2022, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Proposals on any topic related to ecocriticism and the environmental arts and humanities are welcome. Proposals of 250–300 words should be sent to Jenna Gersie at JENNA.GERSIE@COLORADO.EDU by March 31, 2022.

MLA Annual Convention

5-8 January 2023

San Francisco

“Waters, Materialities, Mediterraneans”

We are seeking comparative papers foregrounding liquid materialities of the Mediterranean and other seas from Blue Humanities, Critical Ocean Studies, or other aquacentric theoretical perspectives.

This is a guaranteed forum session sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean.

Please send 250-word abstracts and biographical notes to Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (etamalet@tulane.edu) by March 10, 2022.