Animal Intersections July 3-5 University of Adelaide, Australia Keynote speakers: * Professor James Serpell: Humane Ethics & Animal Welfare, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine * Professor Colin Dayan: Humanities and Law, Vanderbilt University * Associate Professor Annie Potts: Cultural Studies and English and co-director of New Zealand Centre for...
Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery 2017 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference June 20 - 24, 2017, Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan Conference website: http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu Read full CFP here: http://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/ASLE-2017-CFP.pdf In Rust: The Longest War, Jonathan Waldman claims that, for those who “yield to rust,...
Call for Papers: Mediating Climate Change University of Leeds Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017 Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor Alexandra Harris (Liverpool); Professor Mike Hulme (King’s College London); Dr Adeline Johns-Putra (Surrey); Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) Our experience...
CFP: Otago German Studies, Vol. 28 (Dunedin: University of Otago) This series of books, published in the German Programme of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago (NZ), aims to support German Studies in New Zealand by providing a means of publication, primarily,...
Special issue call for Journal Environmental Communication: deadline 30 May 2016 Environmental Themes in Popular Narratives http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/est/renc/renc-cfp The purpose of this special issue of Environmental Communication is to explore and analyse a number of prominent environmental narratives conceived and reproduced in different venues. Despite the increasing presence of...
University of Pennsylvania, USA October 20-22, 2016 Conference website The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities is pleased to announce Timescales, an interdisciplinary environmental humanities conference to be held on October 20-22, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania. Timescales explores the question of temporality in ecological crisis. The global threat...
Feeding the Insatiable - a creative summit November 9-11, 2016 Venue: Schumacher College, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EA, UK DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 22.00 GMT May 8, 2016 Schumacher College, RegenSW and the art.earth network invite you to submit a proposal for participation to the forthcoming summit Feeding the Insatiable...
9-5pm, 23rd February 2016 Evolution House, University of Edinburgh Organised by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network There is a one in 59,000 chance – give or take shifting orbital trajectories – that asteroid 2015PU228 will collide with the Earth in the year 2081. Heavy and fast-moving, PU228 was...
Dear friends and colleagues, We've received a lot of interest in the PSi #22: ‘Performance Climates’ Call for Papers (below), and many proposals are rolling in that interpret the theme in provocative and inventive ways. We’re excited to announce that in addition to the great speaker line-up,...
We are seeking proposals for an interdisciplinary anthology, tentatively titled “Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis,” that will treat cultural production and practices related to “alternatives”—both critical and creative, descriptive and imaginative—that challenge the unjust and unsustainable systems that dominate at present. Though...