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...
A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene A Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the University of California, Santa Barbara June 14-30, 2018 CFP online: https://christymtidwell.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/cfp-a-clockwork-green-ecomedia-in-the-anthropocene/ A troubling paradox lies at the heart of ecomedia studies: those of us who...
The Aarhus University Centre for Environmental Humanities is excited to invite proposals for contributions to an interdisciplinary conference on "Remaking the Museum: Curation, Conservation, and Care in Times of Ecological Upheaval." Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from across the environmental humanities and beyond, the...
Registration is now open for Viridis Graduate Institute's Fall 2017 degree and non-degree programs in Ecopsychology and Environmental Humanities. Classes are live online! VGI's programs foster capacities to be effective and responsive to our world's complex and interconnected challenges. Visit viridisinstitute.org for additional registration information. ...
Performing Diverse Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture at the Crux of Ecological Change Bloomington, Indiana, March 3-5, 2017 Symposium website: https://dertindiana.wordpress.com/symposium The Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology is pleased to host this symposium that brings together leading scholars to promote understanding of the roles of expressive culture in...
Bath Spa University in the UK is hosting this year's Association of Commonwealth Universities Summer School, which is focused on New Narratives for Environmental Change in the Arts and Humanities. Participation is open to all students from Commonwealth countries from Honours through to PhD level. Applications...
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...