Calls for Papers

Invitation to Apply Plant Animacies Workshop Claremont, California February 23-24, 2024

The Hixon-Riggs Program for Responsive Science at Harvey Mudd College invites abstract submissions for a two-day, works-in-progress workshop in Claremont, CA. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together a small collection of scholars and artists working on plant animacies broadly defined—from plants as agential beings that enact material change in the world to the ways that plants discursively inspire conceptions of what it means to be alive or lively. As such, pieces might explore how discourses ...

10th EASLCE (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment) Symposium

Sea More Blue: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Blue Ecopoetics Perpignan, June 17-20 2024

Keynote Speakers / Conférences plénières Ben de Bruyn Sidney Dobrin François Sarano Melody Jue

Invited Artist / Artiste invitée Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Call For Papers

Since the turn of the century, the stakes inherent in climate change have turned out to be indissoluble from the threats affecting coastal and marine ecosystems. Scientists around the world have provided evidence that global warming is interlinked with rising sea levels, ...

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 plural register, is understood expansively, recognizing its many forms and the modes of unevenly distributed power that shape migrant experiences, ...

Inaugural Conference of stsing TU Dresden, Germany March 19-22, 2024

Confirmed Keynote speakers: Nerea Calvillo (Warwick University) Amade M’charek (University of Amsterdam) Thao Phan (Monash University, Melbourne)

Leakage reveals cracks and holes; it signifies porosity, the transgression of a boundary, and a rebuke to fantasies of closure and containment. Unlike a sudden spill or a violent burst, leaks are sites of a slow and steady subversion. They corrode and accumulate over time, calling for a reckoning with temporalities of latency and a readjustment of perceptual scales. Leaks are evidence of ...

Call for Papers Western Regional Conference on Christianity & Literature 2024 ConVersing/ConServing: Care, Creation, Communion

May 9-11, 2024 Trinity Western University 22500 University Drive Langley, BC Canada V2Y 1Y1

Our keynote speaker: Marilyn McEntyre’s teaching and writing focuses on topics including American literature, medical humanities, literature and the natural world, portraiture and character in literature and art, and approaches to autobiography. Her many articles and books include Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies and Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict. She leads retreats and writing workshops and is ...

Thirteenth Biennial MESEA Conference: Moving Cultures, Moving Ethnicities

June 12-14, 2024, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• John McLeod (University of Leeds) • Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Eastern Finland) • Atlantic Studies Lecture: Tobias Skowronek (THGA)

Those of us who are “world”-travelers have the distinct experience of being different in different “worlds” and of having the capacity to remember other “worlds” and ourselves in them. — Maria Lugones, “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception” (1987)

We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to ...

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2024 Boston, MA March 7-10, 2024

While the industrial food system has been lauded for positive changes to global diets, it has also resulted in remarkably uneven patterns of food scarcity and excess. As Mike Davis explains in Late Victorian Holocausts, “although crop failures and water shortages were of epic proportion—often the worst in centuries—there were almost always grain surpluses elsewhere in the nation or empire” (11). Rather than a condition of hunger amidst scarcity, in other words, the industrial ...

The Aesthetics of Contamination: Oceanic Environments, Identities, Intermedial Research-Creation

Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, 27-29 Oct, 2023

Deadline for Submissions: 31 August, 2023

In close collaboration with the University of Grenoble Alpes, Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, is organizing an international conference on October 27-29, 2023, on the oceanic environment with a focus on research creation and scholarship. This three-day international conference seeks to examine the aesthetics of contamination through a blue ecocritical lens to explore how the ocean has shaped cultural identities and ...

In Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s Animalia, set on a pig farm, a pivotal moment occurs when the unnamed human mother, “Genetrix,” feeds her stillborn fetus to a sow, eventually leading the latter to devour her own offspring. The accidental reversal of the roles of the eater and the eaten, described in this scene, not only exposes the fragile systems of (re)production that rely on the gendered exploitation of bodies but also challenges the anthropocentric human/nonhuman animal polarity. Recently, works such as Denis Cote’s documentary ...

International Conference on Sustainable Environments and Interspecies Ecologies: Literature, Creativity, Theory and Praxis 29-30 September 2023 Organized by Post Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha, India

Exploitation of natural resources fuelled by rapid expansive industrial growth and materialistic outlook towards world domination led to depletion and unimaginable destruction of the natural world. Acute global warming, melting Poles, rising seas, forest fires, food and water crisis, pandemics and war make the climate crisis a jarring reality. Sustainable environments and interspecies ecologies refer to a new way of thinking ...