Calls for Papers

This is a panel CFP for the 2025 Biennial Conference: Collective Atmospheres, to be held July 8-11, 2025, at the University of Maryland.

This panel seeks to build a collective atmosphere for island and desert studies, a space where desert(/)islands can share the same critical air. Islands have historically had the lure as paradisal spaces, and this has led to their often complicated and complex colonial histories. Meanwhile, global desert environments have frequently been represented as vast, unpeopled wastelands; such depictions risk perpetuating Indigenous ...

This is a panel CFP for the 2025 Biennial Conference: Collective Atmospheres, to be held July 8-11, 2025, at the University of Maryland.

In a 2023 essay for SubStance, Luce Irigaray remarked that it is “subtlety that grants air its universal potential and its ability to act as a mediation, not only between the different parts of us, but also between the different living beings.” This non-guaranteed ASLE 2025 panel of traditional scholarly papers invites proposals for presentations that speak to the capacity of ...

This panel seeks to explore how Latin American and Latine writers, filmmakers, and artists depict natural elements—such as water, air, landscapes, and weather—as active forces that shape and mediate human emotions, identity, and survival. Through an environmental humanities lens, we will examine how these works go beyond symbolic uses of nature to show how ecological crises become part of the migrant experience. In many Latine / Latin American narratives, migration is influenced not only by social and political pressures but also by environmental ...

Panel CFP for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11 2025, University of Maryland, College Park

Water, as a shared and finite resource, both reflects and changes the relations of power that govern its uses, distributions, and representations. As the material consequences of water mismanagement continue to manifest—ranging from deep-sea mining to the severe water insecurity that disproportionately affects communities of colour—contestations over water that occur in “imaginative geographies” (Edward Said) and speculative environments may bring those uneven power relations and their latent racializing logics ...

“Atmospheres of Poiesis /Poetic Atmospheres,” panel CFP for the 2025 Biennial Conference: Collective Atmospheres, to be held July 8-11, 2025, at the University of Maryland.

Can thinking through atmospheres bring ecological resonance to our poetry?

As the layer of gases, including oxygen, that surround the planet, atmosphere serves a protective function, enables respiration, and houses the liquidity and wind [motion/disturbance?] that can coalesce as weather. By enabling both breath and perception, the atmosphere is a node of connection between the global and the individual. Since ...

This is a panel CFP for the 2025 Biennial Conference: Collective Atmospheres, to be held July 8-11, 2025, at the University of Maryland.

Classical theories of law and justice find their origins in our connection to the earth. Yet the rise of international greenhouse gas emissions trading systems since the turn of the century has led scholars and policy makers to develop a politics of modern “geopower” (Bonneuil & Fressoz, Latour, Luisetti) predicated on the appropriation and monetization of air rather than land. Understanding ...

Panel for the 2025 ASLE Biennial Conference “Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality” July 8-11, 2025, at the University of Maryland College Park

This panel seeks to explore the relationship between the Gothic and the air/atmosphere through an ecocritical and interdisciplinary lens.

Gothic representations of air/ atmosphere are effective sites for reflecting on disturbing forms of transcorporeal encounters indexed by pollution, toxicity, and other porous agents that break down the corporeal and affective boundaries between human and nonhuman entities. From another angle, these aerial and atmospheric hauntings ...

Panel at Collective Atmospheres, ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park

Games are not diversions from real-world challenges such as environmental crisis; rather, games are already shaping the planetary future across scales and cultures. Climate-themed board games proliferate, inviting players to strategize potential solutions and envision novel infrastructures. Video games from major studios bring environmental justice themes to enormous player bases, while indie developers experiment with the affects entailed in ecological collapse. Many of us recognize that exercising agency ...

Call for ASLE 2025 Conference Virtual Panel

The panel proposes to explore intersections between atmospherics, olfactory perception, and socio-environmental inequality. As H. L. Hsu puts it, “the social construction of smell informs— and is informed by— the social construction of environmental risk perception” (Smell of Risk, NYU Press, 2020, 6). Individual and collective experiences of atmospheric odor (whether pleasant or unpleasant) indeed influence social behaviors and representations. Historically, in the West, the long-standing belief in miasma theory led to considerations of space in which ...

Panel at Collective Atmospheres, ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park

The Energy Humanities Interest Group invites proposals for pre-formed panels or roundtables that consider the relationship between energy and atmosphere from an energy humanities perspective.

Proposals should outline the format in the abstract and also include presentation titles and author names for other panelists and include 300 word abstracts for each individual paper unless proposing a roundtable.

The successful panel/roundtable will have guaranteed acceptance to ASLE 2025.

Please submit to Jordan B. Kinder ...