H2O: Life and Death 15 & 16 September, 2017 An interdisciplinary conference organised by the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide (Australia) Call for Submissions Waters are contested entities that are currently at the centre of most scientific discussions about sustainability. Discourse around water management underlines...
Call for papers November 15-18, 2017 Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago - Chile Conference website: knowledgeculture.org Welcome to Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies (KCE2017) the 4th conference in the Knowledge/Culture series, a sequence of international conferences created by the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at Western Sydney University, Australia. The KCE2017 conference is...
Call for Papers: Commanding the Environment or Green Dictatorships? Nature-Culture – Nature-Society Relationships in Authoritarian Regimes International Seminar at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, 27-28 April 2017 The Jean Monnet Team of the Aleksanteri Institute (the Finnish Centre of Russian and East European Studies) at...
17-19 July 2017 The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Literature Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus Literary Environments is concerned with the different environments in which literature can occur, and our methods of translating between them. At this critical juncture in the Anthropocene, planetary responsibility and...
Call for papers The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic: A nearly carbon-neutral conference June 26th – July 14th 2017 More plastic was produced in the past decade than during the entire 20th century. We currently produce over 300 million tonnes of plastic each year. We have built a...
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 Toby Miller (Loughborough); Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) Our experience of...
In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language June 7-9 2017 [Residential Short Course June 10-14] Venue: Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EA, UK DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 22.00 GMT January 5, 2017 art.earth and Schumacher College invite you to submit a proposal for participation in the forthcoming summit In Other Tongues...
LIVING TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH: ECO-SUSTAINABLE NARRATIVES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE/S The ANDA association (Associazione Nazionale dei Docenti di Anglistica) is pleased to announce a three-day conference on “Living together on this earth: eco-sustainable narrativesand environmental concerns in English literature/s” to be held at...
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,...