Calls for Papers

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.

Extended deadline – International Conference Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities

International Conference Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities

Call for papers

11–13 July 2022 (Extended Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2022)

University of Warsaw and via Zoom worldwide

organized by

The project “Non-anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivity” realized as part of the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme at the University of Warsaw

and Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw

Keynote Speakers

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ewa Domańska, Tetsuya Kono

Conference concept and coordination:

Aleksandra Brylska, PhD student Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, PhD, professor at University of Warsaw Gabriela Jarzębowska, PhD Piotr Kociumbas, PhD, DSc Paweł ...

Hemingway and the Environment — Fellowship opportunity. Each year the Hemingway Society accepts applications for its Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship grant, and typically makes two awards of $1,000 each to support the development of a Hemingway-related project.

Preference is given to enrolled graduate students, independent scholars, or recent recipients of doctorate degrees.

Applications are due by February 18, 2022. For further details and to apply, please visit www.hemingwaysociety.org/lewis-reynolds-smith-founders-fellowship

Twenty-five years after Gloria Anzaldúa published Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, the U.S.–Mexico border is still “una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” As Anzaldúa would have predicted, this “bleed[ing]” is both violent and vital, destructive and constructive; anytime “a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country—a border culture.” However, in ways Anzaldúa failed to see, this “blood” does not flow from a single Chicanx “country,” but rather ...

Duquesne University English Graduate Organization’s Hybrid Graduate Conference: Cultivating Dynamic Environments, April 8-9th, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA Deadline for submissions: February 1st, 2022 Contact email: environments@duq.edu

As our natural environments become increasingly vulnerable to the realities of climate change, so too do our personal and communal environments experience strain. In thinking about conversations of potential irreversible climate collapse, we don’t always ruminate on the ways in which our social, economic, political, cultural, creative, and academic environments are increasingly impacted by looming devastation. Thus, the varying environments of ...

The International Steinbeck Society is pleased to announce a call for paper presentations on the works of John Steinbeck for the upcoming in-person American Literature Association Conference to be held in Chicago IL on May 26-29th, 2022. The Society is asking for papers that fit two streams: the first is a general stream on the study of John Steinbeck’s life and works (broadly defined). The second is a specialized panel titled “Steinbeck & the Living World.” Topics of consideration for this second panel ...

2nd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies Cappadocia University, Turkey May 16-18, 2022

Organizers: The Environmental Humanities Center and the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Cappadocia University

There have been many international conferences focusing either on critical animal studies or on plant studies exclusively in the fields of environmental humanities and ecocriticism. So far, no conference has sought to place them side by side to discuss more-often-than-not their interrelated theoretical and praxisbased research. The second international conference organized by the ...

International Conference: Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities

11–13 July 2022 (Deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2022)

University of Warsaw and via Zoom worldwide

organized by

The project “Non-anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivity” realized as part of the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme at the University of Warsaw

and

Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw

Keynote Speakers

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ewa Domańska, Tetsuya Kono

Conference concept and coordination:

Aleksandra Brylska, PhD student Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, PhD, professor at University of Warsaw Gabriela Jarzębowska, PhD Piotr Kociumbas, PhD, DSc Paweł Piszczatowski, PhD, professor at University of Warsaw Krzysztof Skonieczny, PhD

Conference description

The ...

2022 ASLE Symposium: Watersheds June 24-26, 2022 University of Delaware

In hydrographic terms, watersheds are stretches of land that divide bodies of water from others. As the vast Chesapeake Bay watershed makes clear – draining the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia – watersheds congregate and build; obviate political boundaries; blur lines between the terrestrial and aquatic, fresh and salt; seep and produce; teem and transform. Temporality in the watershed is also messy: times sink, sediment, and circulate as the past ...