Calls for Papers

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 ...

An international conference titled PLASTIC TURN will be held on 3rd and 4th of August, 2023, at the University of North Bengal, India. The keynote speakers are: Haun Saussy (University of Chicago), Karen Thornber (Harvard University), and Olga Solovieva (University of Chicago).

Although the title of the conference is PLASTIC TURN, following on Ranjan Ghosh’s book The Plastic Turn and how he introduces this term into our critical discourse, this international conference broadens the ambit of intervention by emphasizing on plastic studies from a ...

CEP International Conference: Interweaving Anthropology, Science, and Narrative: Postanthropocentric Mappings in the Era of Climate Crises

Event dates: 1st to 3rd November 2023

Place: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Extended Abstract Deadline: 30 September, 2023

This conference organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur in association with University of Oldenburg, Germany can be attended both through online and offline mode.

Coordinator (s): Dr Saswat Samay Das, Liberal Arts and Critical Humanities, Department of Humanities and ...

This special issue of American Literatures (www.amlit.eu) will explore the question: how has the 21st century literature of the Americas responded to the greatest crisis in human history? Given the broad implications of the Anthropocene, contemporary eco-literature intersects with many ideas: ecocriticism, environmental justice, ecofeminism, ecoethics, place, and ethnic—particularly indigenous—literature. This issue of AmLit aims to explore responses to the ecological disasters posed by the Anthropocene in contemporary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and other relevant literary genres. Please send proposals of no more ...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Language Matters Social and Environmental Justice in Creative-Critical Practice Friday 7 July, Nottingham Contemporary, UK.

Keynote Speakers: Malika Booker and Hanan Issa

Calls for social and environmental justice have, in recent years, been amplified in response to inequalities across race, gender, class and geography brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter and Hands Off My Hijab movements, and the acceleration of anthropogenic climate change. Across the cultural spectrum, institutions are beginning to reckon with their imperial legacies, publishers ...

Western Literature Association Conference

Fort Hall, Idaho, Oct. 11-14, 2023

Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Abstract Length: Up to 250 words

According to Andrew Russell and Lee Vinsel, founders of an interdisciplinary network of researchers who call themselves The Maintainers, “maintenance and repair, the building of infrastructures, the mundane labor that goes into sustaining functioning and efficient infrastructures, simply has more impact on people’s daily lives than the vast majority of technological innovations.” Narratives that privilege invention and innovation, Russell and Vinsel contend, frequently overlook the ...

Climate Crisis, Lyric Crisis?:Contemporary Poetry and the Environment

‘Un- natural says the news. Also the body says it.’ Jorie Graham

‘I place my feet with care in such a world.’ William E. Stafford

‘Task: to be where I am.’ Tomas Tranströmer

What is the role of poetry in times of loss and unravelling? How do poets respond to environmental distress – and register the unnaturalness of the current weather – even as they continue to bear careful witness to their local landscapes and places? If ignorance about what is ...

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks submissions for its seventh biennial conference, which will take place March 14-16, 2024, in Pasadena, California. We invite individual papers or group proposals on literature and culture in and beyond the United States during the long nineteenth century.

The 2024 conference theme, THE END, speaks to the catastrophes of various scales, speeds, and epicenters in which we are living—from increasingly apocalyptic climate events to the dire state of our profession, threatened by the casualization of academic labor, ...

Panel for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, OR. October 26 – 29 2023.

Submit abstracts via PAMLA CFP system. Link to panel: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18860

Emerging as a rapidly-developing interdisciplinary field, scholarship in the Energy Humanities seeks to engage with how energy shapes cultural and creative practices of society. As scholar Derek Gladwin states in his book Ecological Exile: “The energy humanities offer a framework to discuss alternative energy models, aesthetic ways of presenting energy forms in public, and predicting energy futures” (71). Whether ...

CEP International Conference

Interweaving Anthropology, Science, and History: Postanthropocentric Novels in the Era of Climate Crises

Event dates: 1st to 3rd November 2023

Place: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Extended Abstract Deadline: 30 September, 2023

This conference organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur in association with University of Oldenburg, Germany can be attended both through online and offline mode.

Coordinator (s): Dr. Saswat Samay Das, Liberal Arts and Critical Humanities, Department of Humanities and Social ...