RELEVANCE 60th Annual Conference of the Estonian National Museum 5.-7. May 2020 in Tartu, Estonia Organiser: Estonian National Museum Keynotes: Jette Sandahl (Denmark), Nancy Proctor (USA) Conference Webpage: http://enmconferences.ee/relevance-2020 A good museum is one which I come out feeling better than when I went in. Kenneth Hudson This quote from Kenneth Hudson sets...
An International Environmental Humanities Conference Hosted by the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden 5–8 August 2020 Background The past decade has seen the emergence and rapid growth of a new field of inquiry: the environmental humanities (EH). From the scholarly ‘turns’ of the humanities in the 1990s and 2000s...
Toward Extinction, To Ward Off Extinction An International Conference organised by CECILLE (Centre d'Etudes en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères) 7-9 November 2019 Université de Lille SHS, France Convened by: Thomas Dutoit (CECILLE), Sarah Jonckheere (CECILLE/IdA), and Laura Lainväe (EMMA) Keynote speakers: Sarah Wood, co-editor and advisory board of OLR and Angelaki,...
CFP: Creaturely Ethics and Poetics Date: June 27-29, 2019 Location: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Chief Convenor: Victor J Krawczyk Website: https://www.creaturelyethicsconferencestream.com/ The domination-exploitation of human beings begins with animals, wild beasts and cattle; the humans associated with these inaugurated an experience that would turn back against them: killings,...
China’s environmental challenge and eco-civilisation: a multidisciplinary approach to the Anthropocene The University of Sydney 14 to 18 January, 2019 Call for Applications: The 2019 Graduate Workshop on China in the Urban Age The University of Sydney is organising the inaugural graduate workshop of the China Studies Centre’s recently...
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...
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...
Call for papers 7th International Conference on Environmental Future (7ICEF): Humans and Island Environments Honolulu, Hawai'i April 16-20th, 2018 Abstract submission for contributed talks and poster presentations for the 7ICEF are now open. Further information and submission here. Deadline for submissions is December, 1, 2017. Islands are at the forefront of...
Call for Papers Maritime Animals: Telling stories of animals at sea Two-day international conference National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK April 26-27, 2019 Keynote speakers Thom van Dooren William Gervase Clarence-Smith In maritime narratives of humans, ships and the sea, animals are too often absent,...
Call for papers, American Comparative Literature Association, 2018 Annual Meeting Organizer: Bogna M. Konior Co-Organizer: Nadia de Vries Contact the Seminar Organizers Pathography, or the documentation of illness, has been a consistent feature in feminist writing. From Woolf (On Being Ill, 1978), Sontag (“Illness as Metaphor,” 1978) and Lorde (The Cancer...