Environmental Humanities at #MLA18

If you are attending the 2018 Modern Language Association Convention, held from January 4-7, 2108 in New York City, consider adding some of these events and sessions to your agenda. If you are on a panel of interest to ASLE members not listed below, please contact us at info@asle.org to have it added.

The MLA Forum on Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities is a community founded by ASLE members Sharon O’Dair, Stacy Alaimo, Stephanie LeMenager and Jeffrey J. Cohen.  Check out their feed in the MLA Commons and consider joining the group.

ASLE is co-sponsoring the MLA Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities Forum Happy Hour with the Forum on Thursday, January 4, from 7-10pm.  This popular event will be held at 5th&Mad for anyone interested in the environmental humanities and their friends. Please consider attending and meet some new people in the field!

In addition, Oxford UP, the publisher of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, has compiled a collection of articles from its journals that relate to the presidential theme of the 2018 MLA convention, which is #StatesofInsecurity.  You can view and read three articles from ISLE, as well as from several other journals, in their MLA 2018 Collection.

ASLE-Sponsored Sessions:

324: Teaching and Learning the Stories of Standing Rock and #noDAPL (Co-sponsored with ASAIL)
Friday, January 05, 2018  01:45 PM – 03:00 PM

561: Afro-Natures and Afro-Futures: Speculation, Technology, and Environment in African Literature and Film
Saturday, January 06, 2018  12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

692: Reclamation Ecopoetics of the African Diaspora
Saturday, January 06, 2018  05:15 PM – 06:30 PM

 

Sessions of Interest:

Thursday January 4

17: Early Modern Biopolitics: Race, Nature, Sexuality
Thursday, January 04, 2018  12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

31: Performance, Materiality, and Ecology in Early Modern Literature
Thursday, January 04, 2018 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

84: Anthropocene Reading
Thursday, January 04, 2018  03:30 PM – 04:45 PM

140: Responding to Extinction
Thursday, January 04, 2018  05:15 PM – 06:30 PM

154 “Uncer giedd geador”: Feminist Studies in Old English
Thursday, January 04, 2018  05:15 PM – 06:30 PM

 

Friday January 5

284 Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 05, 2018  12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

324: Teaching and Learning the Stories of Standing Rock and #noDAPL (ASLE session, see above)
Friday, January 05, 2018  01:45 PM – 03:00 PM

Field trip to Newtown Creek (Friday, January 5, 2:30 PM)
In tandem with the “Site Specifics” session on Sunday (see below), a group of intrepid MLAers are gathering to explore this place of beauty and toxicity. We will take public transportation and have a considerable walk so please come with a transit card and warm clothing. Email Jeffrey Cohen at jjcohen@gwu.edu to reserve a spot; spaces are limited.

369: Sovereign Insecurities / Canadian Insecurities
Friday, January 05, 2018 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM

385: Mark Twain and Theory: Leverage and Limits
Friday, January 05, 2018  03:30 PM – 04:45 PM

410. Cultures of Vulnerability in the Contemporary United States
Friday, January 05, 2018  05:15 PM – 06:30 PM

Saturday January 6

465: Early Modern Women and the Environment
Saturday, January 06, 2018  08:30 AM – 09:45 AM

561: Afro-Natures and Afro-Futures: Speculation, Technology, and Environment in African Literature and Film (ASLE session, see above)
Saturday, January 06, 2018 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

564: Weak Environmentalism
Saturday, January 06, 2018 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

570 Environmental Humanities and Italy
Saturday, January 06, 2018  12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

606: Emily Dickinson’s Narrative Cartography
Saturday, January 06, 2018  01:45 PM – 03:00 PM

654: Literature of Waste and Environmental Insecurity in Central and Eastern Europe
Saturday, January 06, 2018  03:30 PM – 04:45 PM

679: Legal Ecologies
Saturday, January 06, 2018  05:15 PM – 06:30 PM

692: Reclamation Ecopoetics of the African Diaspora (ASLE session, see above)
Saturday, January 06, 2018  05:15 PM – 06:30 PM

 

Sunday January 7

800: Forms of Life, Forms of Literature
Sunday, January 07, 2018 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

821: Site Specifics
Sunday, January 07, 2018 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM

809: “Of Strangers Is the Earth the Inn”: Still Life, Scale, and Deep Time in Emily Dickinson
Sunday, January 07, 2018  12:00 PM – 01:15 PM