Calls for Papers

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

Next year marks a decade since Jason W. Moore’s influential Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015). In the book’s robust, post-dualist critical engagement with capitalism, Moore details his theories of World Ecology, Cheap Nature, and the Capitalocene. He argues that late capitalism is not constituted by a duality of nature plus society, but a post-dualist World Ecology of an always-already imbricated nature-culture ...

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

Sponsored by the Ecomedia Interest Group, this guaranteed panel invites contributions exploring the intersection of atmospheric aesthetics and ecocinema through the lens of women filmmakers. Drawing on the conceptualization of air as a medium (Horn 2018) and the philosophy of elemental media (Peters 2016), we examine how cinema, through genre, technique, or form, relates to the material, political, and sensory dimensions of air. This approach fosters a prismatic understanding ...

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

Fleeting, distant, elusive, and often operating beyond the human sensorium, airborne collectivities (birds, bats, insects, microbes, pollen, seeds, etc.) offer new ways of thinking about collective action and environmental histories in an atmospherically challenged planet. This panel seeks papers on the representation of airborne collectivities as environmental agents. What can swarms, flocks, clouds, murmurations, and other flying phenomena tell us about the current state of our damaged planet? How ...

AIRBORNE GOTHIC ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic

This panel sets out to consider how gothic is carried and transmitted through air. Airborne gothic takes many forms: stories told around campfires; plague and Covid narratives; texts featuring ominous flying creatures (birds, bats, and bugs!); radiation/nuclear gothic; propagandistic talk about windmills as killing machines; airplanes or spacecraft as gothic sites; the winds and wutherings that course through so many gothic stories; and more. How do gothic texts evoke unrest, ...

ALA 2025 Society for the Study of American Travel Writing CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline, January 15, 2025

Society for the Study of American Travel Writing

American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA

May 21-24, 2025

The Society for the Study of American Travel Writing (SSATW) seeks proposals for two panels at the American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference in Chicago, IL May 23-25, 2024.

Panel One: Blue Journeys: Water, Ecology, and Travel

Recent work in the anthropocenic blue humanities raises new questions about the ...

Resistance, as performed by both human and nonhuman entities, is a fundamental tool of self-assertion, advocacy, rebellion, and transformation that has an extensive history across many spaces, traditions, and eras within the Romance world. Scholarly discussions have led to the elaboration of various forms of resistance that transcend the dichotomy of violent and non-violent. Social, political, physical, economic, material, intellectual, and poetic/literary resistance are topics broached by many scholars and are widely acknowledged as manners by which both human and nonhuman entities can ...

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

Inspired by the conference theme “Collective Atmospheres,” this panel considers how material bodies scry the winds sweeping towards future collectives. The theme invites reflections about atmospheric apprehension: the ways in which the human sensorium enables subjects to perceive otherwise-unseen aspects of our shared material and social environment, what it is and what it could become. In that spirit, this panel seeks papers that consider how bodies–differentiated across multiple axes, ...

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

The terrain of motherhood/fatherhood–particularly within the environmental humanities–is expanding rapidly into new spheres: social justice, environmental care, and what it means to raise children for a changed atmosphere. This panel will bring together creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists who are contributing to these discussions and exploring the intersection between environmental justice and parenthood. We welcome panelists from any discipline whose work openly questions, interrogates, and meditates on what ...

PCA CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, LA, April 16-19, 2025

The Disasters and Apocalypses area of the Pop Culture Association offers a forum for analysis and critical approaches surrounding the culture of disasters, catastrophes, accidents, and apocalypses in global art, literature, media, film, and popular culture. Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes will address broader disciplinary topics and innovative intersections of humanities, musicology, social science, literature, film, visual art, psychology, game studies, material culture, media studies, ecology, and information technology.

Interested individuals are asked to submit an abstract ...

This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 (July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland) seeks proposals that attend to the complications of invoking the ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to colonial and Indigenous foodways.

The construct of national cinema is complex and differentially informed by anthropological, text-based, political, and economic approaches. Perhaps most plainly (if not impressionistically) defined by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, national cinema is understood ...