Calls for Papers

Guaranteed panel at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference “Reclaiming the Commons”, sponsored by the Eco-critical Visual Culture interest group.

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland Oregon

Topics might include:

— Land Commons and Enclosures — Gleaning and gleaners –imaging and re-imagining the commons –utopian commons/ communes / communities –wild food commons –wild animal populations as “resources” –ocean and shoreline commons: wrack, drift, ambiguity –Going to waste / landscape as “wasteland” –Commons as ruin or “resources” –“Improvement” and the clearances of industrial agriculture

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Maura Coughlin, m.coughlin@northeastern.edu by ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

As Dipesh Chakrabarty (2021) has noted, many recent critical reflections on the Anthropocene fail to consider the perspective of anticolonial modernization movements. Irreducible to mere mimicries of western modernity, such movements display an emancipationist – even spiritual – impulse that continues to shape political and economic aspirations across the “global South,” where the idea that the larger project of modernity ought to be abandoned is finding little ...

Mohammed I University, the Faculty of Humanities, the Research Laboratory on Communication, Education, Digital Usage and Creativity, and the Oriental Center for Water Sciences and Technology organize an International Conference on   The Environmental Humanities: Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice and Ecological Health  January 5, 6, and 7, 2023 Oujda, Morocco 

Most critics believe that the world has inherited nothing from the dominant capitalist culture save social and ecological crises. Poverty, racism, sexism and other forms of social inequality have spread all over the world and with that the natural ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

There is an implicit (and sometimes explicit) anthropocentrism in many accounts of the commons, understood as a place of shared resources. This panel will ask whether the commons can be reconceptualized, in ecological terms, as a space of multi-species relations. What is the connection between commons and habitat, nonhuman life-worlds, or Umwelten? How might theories and historical examples of commoning practices help us to rethink conflicts over ...

Guaranteed ASA-Sponsored panel at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9–12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Ever since Lawrence Buell drew his famous distinction between “first-wave” and “second-wave” ecocriticism (2005), the standard story about the field has been one of diversification: if ecocriticism emerged in the 1990s as the study of white nature writing, it evolved in the 2000s and 2010s by engaging different genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, classes, castes, and more. A quick glance at a journal issue or a conference ...

The two-day international online conference ‘Greening Modern Languages Research and Teaching’ will reflect on the role Modern Languages as a discipline has to play in times of ecological crises, in rethinking our academic practice as educators, scholars and eco-citizens, and ways in which this intersects with current efforts to decentre and decolonise the curriculum. The conference will open a reflection on the place of Modern Languages in the Environmental Humanities and in collective action towards environmental sustainability and justice.

As a discipline that has ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

“Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.” This statement of of Aristotle is often interpreted as nonhumans not being concerned with politics and that politics is a prerogative of humans only. Political associations in a human society are often restricted to humans. However, contemporary research in ethology suggests that nonhuman communities and their ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Co-organised by Dr. Jill Didur (Concordia University, Montreal) and Priscilla Jolly (Concordia University, Montreal)

This panel examines how the ongoing legacy of plantation epistemologies and violence are made visible, critiqued, resisted, and imagined ‘otherwise’ through different modes of storytelling (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, visual culture, digital culture, popular media, and policy documents). Taking up Haraway’s call to ‘story otherwise’ for ‘Earthly survival’ (2016), we invite papers that explore ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

On the topic of regional literature, authors Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer write, “[W]e find our subjectivities profoundly influenced by our locatedness” (6) – that our personal relationships with land and place are inherently connected to the discourses of socio-cultural conflicts and tensions which emerge from these defined regional spaces. Through the lens of ecohorror, we aim to examine literary and visual representations of regional identity-making ...

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Co-organised by Dr Ida Marie Olsen (Ghent University) and Dr Reuben Martens (University of Waterloo)

If we are to reclaim the commons—setting aside the difficulties of defining commons and who they actually belong to, especially in any North American or postcolonial state—where do we begin? Many commons, whether they be terrestrial, aquatic, atmospheric or sociocultural, have been and are still in the process of being actively destroyed in ...