Wet feet? Flooding, resilience and the climate crisis (online conference)
Wet feet? Flooding, resilience and the climate crisis (online conference)
Organisers: Gemma Curto and Juliet de Little, University of Sheffield
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Dr Kate Smith (University of Hull)
Dr Katie Ritson (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)
Generously sponsored by the Sheffield Water Centre, The University of Sheffield
Conference: 9am – 3pm, 19 May 2021 [itinerary in BST/GMT+1]
Register by 19 April 2021:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wet-feet-flood-resilience-and-the-climate-crisis-tickets-136599660261
About the event:
The conference will be held on the 19th May 2021, with access to posted papers available for one week ...
Ashland Creek Press Celebrates 10 Years
Boutique publisher of environmental literature will publish 30th title this year (Ashland, OR— March 1, 2021)
John Yunker and Midge Raymond
This month, Ashland Creek Press is celebrating 10 years of publishing, beginning with the first book in a young-adult trilogy (of which Kirkus Reviews wrote, “This series opener blends genre tradition with West Coast environmentalism … the result feels fresh and original”) and poised to publish a nonfiction book for young readers, Saving Animals: A Future Activist’s Guide this spring.
Over the past decade, ...
ASLE Members Edit Elements in Environmental Humanities Series
The Cambridge digital series, Elements in Environmental Humanities, now have seven titles published online and an eighth soon to appear.
Editors: Louise Westling, University of Oregon Serenella Iovino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Timo Maran, University of Tartu
About the Elements in Environmental Humanities series
The environmental humanities is a new transdisciplinary complex of approaches to the embeddedness of human life and culture in all the dynamics that characterize the life of the planet. These approaches reexamine our species’ history in light of the intensifying awareness of drastic climate change ...
Call for Submissions: ASLE-UKI Inaugural Book Prize 2021
ASLE-UKI Book Prize 2021
Deadline for Nominations: January 31st, 2021
We are pleased to announce the inauguration of the biennial ASLE-UKI book prizes. There will be two categories:
the best academic monograph in ecocriticism and the environmental humanities published at any time in 2019 or 2020 (please note this does not include edited collections). the best work of creative writing in any form or genre with an ecological theme published at any time in 2019 or 2020.The initial long list will be drawn up from nominations received ...
New Entries Published in Searchable Sea Literature, Funded by ASLE Grant
One of the 2020 ASLE Subvention Grant projects is well underway to completion. This grant provides funding to support new reference entries on authors who have been underrepresented in blue ecocriticism at the Searchable Sea Literature site, notably female authors of the twentieth and twenty-first century, especially those that are Black, Indigenous, Asian, or Latinx. Searchable Sea Literature is an open access internet resource providing peer-reviewed biographies of North American Anglophone maritime authors, hundreds of individually searchable links to electronic texts ...
Recipients of ASLE Translation Grant Publish Chinese Women Writers on the Environment
Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: A Multi-Ethnic Anthology of Fiction and Nonfiction, edited by Dong Isbister, Xiumei Pu, and Stephen D. Rachman (McFarland Books, 2020), was supported by an ASLE Translation Grant and has recently been published.
The stories, prose and poems in this anthology offer readers a unique and generous array of women’s experiences in China. In a world that is rapidly modernizing, these writings attempt to reconcile with the ever-changing people, plants, beasts and environment. After five years of painstaking collection ...
Arctic Environmental Humanities Seminar: Why We Should Develop Arctic Humanities
Arctic Environmental Humanities Seminar: Sverker Sörlin
You are invited to join the next online seminar in the Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop series, co-convened by Michael Bravo (Cambridge University) and Adriana Craciun (Boston University). Professor Sverker Sörlin (KTH, Sweden) will speak on “Why we should develop Arctic Humanities” on Sept. 29, 2020 at 11am EDT (4pm UK, 5pm CET). Further details and registration for the zoom seminar are available via the Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop website below. A recording of the first seminar in the ...
The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (film)
Directed by Issac Goeckeritz, María Valeria Berros, and Hal Crimmel. 2018.
This film, shot in Ecuador, New Zealand, and the United States, explores how the legal system in the industrialized world tends to view nature as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is to provide for human needs. Yet indigenous communities have viewed themselves as part of nature, and as pressures on ecosystems mount and as conventional laws seem increasingly inadequate to address environmental degradation, communities, ...
Derek Sheffield Wins Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize
Congratulations to ASLE member Derek Sheffield, winner of the 2019 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize (Established) for his collection Not for Luck. Selected by judge Mark Doty, Not for Luck will be published in 2021 by the MSU Press.
“In Not for Luck, Derek Sheffield achieves something of inestimable value: a trustworthy, convincing voice,” writes judge Mark Doty. “A voice, of course, is something we have, but getting it onto the page is another matter entirely. We don’t speak in the compressed mode of lyric poetry, even of a colloquial kind, ...
Scott Edward Anderson’s Dwelling: an ecopoem wins 2019 Nautilus Book Award
Scott Edward Anderson’s Dwelling: an ecopoem has received a 2019 Nautilus Book Award! For over 20 years, the Nautilus Book Awards have celebrated “books that support conscious living & green values, high-level wellness, positive social change & social justice, and spiritual growth.”
A sequence of poems and prose questions, Dwelling: an ecopoem began as a conversation with Martin Heidegger’s essay “Building Dwelling Thinking” and became an expansive journey into the notion of home. With sharp focus, at once moving and lyric, Scott Edward Anderson explores the ...