Archive
ASLE has put on fifteen biennial conferences, beginning with our inaugural conference at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, in 1995. Information and links to past conference websites, talks, documents, and articles, if still active, are listed below.
Fifteenth Biennial Conference, 2023
ASLE + AESS Conference: Reclaiming the Commons
July 9-12, 2023
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
Virtual Biennial Conference, 2021
EMERGENCE/Y
July 26-August 6, 2021
Held Virtually Online
Disease and Health Humanities: Gina Stamm
Eco-Theory: Scott Hess
Elemental Rhetoric, Michaelann Nelson and Paul Formisano
Emergent Environments: Caroline Schaumann and Heather Sullivan
Energy Humanities: Jacob Goessling and Jordan Kinder
Environmental Justice: Ryan Hediger and Shane Hall
Indigenous Ecocriticism: Abigail Perez Aguilera and Kyle Bladow
Migrant Ecocriticism: Rina García Chua and Lisa Fink
The Pluriverse: Jeremy Elliott
Public Engagements: George Handley
Speculative Ecomedia: Bridgitte Barclay and Christy Tidwell
Recorded Talks from the 2021 Conference:
Thirteenth Biennial Conference, 2019
Paradise on Fire
June 26-30, 2019
University of California, Davis
Twelfth Biennial Conference, 2017
Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery
June 20-24, 2017
Wayne State University, Detroit MI
Recorded Plenary Talks from the 2017 Conference:
Eleventh Biennial Conference, 2015
Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice
June 23-27, 2015
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
- Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing, “Tunneling in the Chthulucene”
- Linda Hogan, “The Great Line: The Long Connection of Earth and Other Beings”
- “A Gathering of Palouse Writers”
Plenary Talks from the 2015 Conference:
Several of the keynote talks were recorded at the recent 2015 conference, and can be watched on YouTube.
Tenth Biennial Conference, 2013
Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits
May 28 – June 1, 2013
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
- Article on conference on Lawrence Journal World.com
- Conference website
- Conference CFP
- Conference Program
- Program Chair: Paul Outka, University of Kansas
- Host: Byron Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas
Ninth Biennial Conference, 2011
Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global
June 21-26, 2011
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
- Conference CFP
- Conference Program
- Program Chair: Ursula Heise, Stanford University
- Host: Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University
Eighth Biennial Conference, 2009
ISLAND TIME: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World
June 2-6, 2009
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Conference website
- Conference CFP
- Conference Program
- Simmons Buntin’s daily blog on the conference at Terrain.org
- Plenary speaker Andrew Revkin’s post on the rabbits of UVic at his Dot Earth blog.
- Program Chair: Dan Philippon, University of Minnesota
- Host: Richard Pickard, University of Victoria
Seventh Biennial Conference, 2007
Confluence: literature, art, criticism, science, activism, politics
June 12-16, 2007
Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC
- Podcasts of Plenary Keynotes on iTunes (free downloads)
- Conference CFP
- Conference Program
- Susan Hanson’s conference photos
- Program Chair: Karla Armbruster, Webster University
- Hosts: John Lane and Ellen Goldey, Wofford College
Sixth Biennial Conference, 2005
Being in the World, Living With the Land
June 21-26, 2005
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
- Conference CFP
- Conference Program
- Program Chair: Allison Wallace, University of Central Arkansas
- Host: Louise Westling, University of Oregon
Fifth Biennial Conference, 2003
“the solid earth! the actual world!”: Sea–City–Pond–Garden
June 3-7, 2003
Boston University, Boston, MA
- Conference CFP
- Conference Program
- Coverage in the B.U. Bridge
- Program Chair: Ian Marshall, Penn State Altoona
- Host: Adam Sweeting
Fourth Biennial Conference, 2001
Making a Start Out of Particulars
June 19-23, 2001
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
- Conference Program
- Program Chair: Randall Roorda, University of Kentucky
- Host: Max Oelschlaeger, Northern Arizona University
Third Biennial Conference, 1999
What to Make of a Diminished Thing: Restoration, Preservation, Conservation
June 2-5, 1999
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
- Conference Program
- Program Chair: Walter Isle, Rice University
- Host: Tom Bailey, Western Michigan University
Second Biennial Conference, 1997
July 17-19, 1997
University of Montana, Missoula, MT
- Conference Program
- Host: Hank Harrington, University of Montana
First Biennial Conference, 1995
June 9-11, 1995
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
- Conference Program
- Excerpt of article in the New York Times Magazine
- Host: Carol Cantrell, Colorado State University