Calls for Papers

2024 marks ten years since the creation of Future Library (2014-2114, Katie Paterson), a multisite artwork that comprises a forest in Norway, an anthology of literature by world renowned authors to be kept secret until its publication in 2114, and a reading room inside Deichman public library where the manuscripts are housed. In conjunction with the 2025 MLA convention’s presidential theme, “Visibility,” this panel, organized by the CLCS Nordic Forum, asks how and whether Future Library serves as an (in)visible planetary archive. We ...

Early American Environments: Society of Early Americanists sponsored session at the American Literature Association conference, May 25-28, 2024, Chicago, IL

How do early American settlers and/or Indigenous peoples describe their own or others’ environmental impact in writing produced before 1830? What connections or tensions do they observe in settler colonial projects and the environment? Papers that consider the Great Lakes and Midwest, especially the sites of future Chicagoland and its surrounding prairies are especially welcome. Please send a 100-200 word paper proposal to madamscampbell@niu.edu ...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting 22–24 May 2024 ONLINE ONLY

The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2024 annual meeting. As announced at the 2023 meeting we plan to hold conferences in-person in the spring of odd-numbered years and remotely in the spring of even-numbered years. While we recognize the value of in-person conferences, we are also mindful of the importance of reducing the environmental impact of our environmental philosophy conferences. For this year’s online conference we invite proposals ...

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 10-12, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Proposals on any topic related to literature and the environment are welcome. Proposals of 250–300 words should be sent to Andrew M. Spencer at aspencer@dallascollege.edu by April 1, 2024.

Please note, the deadlines for call for papers and preformed panels have been extended:

Papers: 15 January 2024

Preformed Panels: 10 January 2024

Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada 2024 Biennial Conference: Migrations Call for Proposals 19-22 June, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

ALECC Migrations CFP (PDF)

The 2024 Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) biennial conference takes migrations as its theme as it seeks new ways of comprehending and responding to the complexity of migration in the past, present, and future. Migrations, in its ...

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Aesthetics in Times of Turmoil: A Conference on Intersections between Art and Ecology March 22–23, 2024

CENTRE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE King’s University College at Western University, Canada

The conference will include keynote addresses from Paul Harris (Loyola Marymount University), Nina Zitani (Western University), and Jan Zwicky (Emerita, University of Victoria).

THEME

During intensifying ecological turbulence and geopolitical conflict, entrenched habits of thought might suggest that questions of the aesthetic and the beautiful are dispensable luxuries. Such attitudes presume an image of the aesthetic ...

The Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization (LITCO) at Purdue University invites participants for our fourth annual symposium, “Rethinking Crisis & Status Quo.” We are interested in scholarly projects that discuss past, present, and future intersections of crisis and status quo, including readings that challenge or rearticulate crisis and status quo as conceptual categories. We conceptualize “crisis” broadly and welcome papers on personal, legal, environmental, professional, etc. crises. In addition to the approaches listed below, projects may investigate questions such as, “How are ...

3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century

Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey)

May 20-22, 2024

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Although ecocriticism has always kept its initial emphasis on the “relationship between literature and the physical environment” (Glotfelty 1996), over the last decade it has “entered into fruitful interdisciplinary collaborations with other disciplines under the umbrella of the environmental humanities” (Goodbody, Flys Junquera, Oppermann 2020). It has expanded its boundaries, ...

For 2024, the annual conferences of the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) and the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu), together with the biennial conference of the Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit), will be combined into a single meeting. This will be the first time that these three societies have joined together to share research at the many intersections of literature and science.

The conference will be held at the University of Birmingham, UK, over 10-12 April 2024. ...