Call for Paper AAS2018 Life in an Age of Death, 4 - 7 December, 2018 James Cook University, Cairns https://www.aasconf.org/2018/ The deadline for submissions is July 16. Sea theory, atmospheres, and liminality of lives This panel will explore the development of the "ocean turn" and the rise of "critical ocean studies"...
The 2019 Biennial ASLEC-ANZ Conference theme is Grounding Story. We seek submissions that respond to the material and ideological implications of environmental storytelling in either a speculative or a critical mode.[i] On one hand, we are concerned with situated and embodied narratives that can cultivate cosmopolitical worlds and...
Please consider submitting a proposal for a panel or workshop for the 2019 ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) conference at the University of California at Davis. Topics may include but are certainly not limited to: • reckoning with “paradise” in the face...
Beyond Survival: Austerity, precarity, resilience Symposium at the University of Tasmania October 23 - 24, 2018 Inquiries to Naomi Milthorpe at naomi.milthorpe@utas.edu.au. In periods of extended crisis, individual and collective goals orient towards concepts of “survival”. Acceptable definitions of survival are contested and the conditions for survival are vulnerable to exploitation...
Eating the Anthropocene: What and how should we eat in a climate changing world? Keynote speaker: Mike Goodman (University of Reading) April 26-27, 2018 Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University Further information: https://groundworkgeop.wordpress.com/blog The meatification, standardisation, and globalisation of diets has contributed to food systems and cultures that both...
Call for Papers: First Baltic Conference on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences (BALTEHUMS) October 8-9, 2018 Academic Center for Natural Sciences, Latvian University, Riga, Latvia The interest in interdisciplinary cooperation between humanities, arts and social sciences in the study of environment has been constantly rising all over...
Call for Papers: Frankenstein 2018: Two hundred years of monsters 12-15 September 2018 The Australian National University, and National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra Two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus remains as topical as ever. Its...
Call for Papers: A special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies www.tandfonline.com/raut Guest Editors: Jessica White & Gillian Whitlock The University of Queensland We have, arguably, entered the age of the Anthropocene, a time when our environment has been substantially shaped by humans, rather than vice versa. It is...
Reenchanting Urban Wildness: To Perceive, Think and Live With Nature in its Urban Environment International Conference, Perpignan June 11- 14 2019 Under the aegis of the CRESEM, UPVD GUEST WRITERS Belinda Cannone, French writer, sponsor of the PUP (Presses Universitaires de Perpignan), author of S’émerveiller, 2017. Nathanael Johnson, American journalist...
Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra 28 May—1 June 2018 Are you writing a PhD in some aspect of environmental history? The Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University will be running a workshop for PhD students from around the country who are researching...