Notes from Underground:
The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23- 27, 2015
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho Continue reading
Tag Archives: Nature-Culture
WORKSHOP – Natural Environments and Cultural Services
A WORKSHOP TO BE HELD ON 23-24 June 2014 AT DURHAM UNIVERSITY, UK
Theme
According to decision making bodies such as the UK Government’s DEFRA and the UN Environment Programme, one of the reasons ecosystems have value is because they can provide human beings with cultural ecosystem services. The thought is that woods, say, or wetlands have value, not simply because they supply us with fuel, food and other material benefits, but because they can inspire us, for instance, or fortify our resolve, or hone our aesthetic faculties, or provide us with religious symbols, or shape our sense of who we are. Continue reading
CFP – Landscape, Wilderness and the Wild
26-29th, March 2015
Newcastle University, UK
This international cross-disciplinary conference will bring together scholarly communities for knowledge exchange and debate. It aims to consider the discourses that swirl around concepts of wilderness, wildness, wildscape, re-wilding, wilding and the wild. Continue reading
CONFERENCE – SLSA 2013: PostNatural
CFP – Canadian Literary Ecologies
S C L / É L C
S T U D I E S I N C A N A D I A N L I T E R A T U R E
É T U D E S E N L I T T É R A T U R E C A N A D I E N N E
Call for Papers – Canadian Literary Ecologies Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, published at the University of New Brunswick since 1975, invites submissions to a special issue focusing on nature, ecology, and ecocritical approaches to anglophone or francophone Canadian literature, to be edited by Pamela Banting, Cynthia Sugars, and Herb Wyile.
One of the most distinctive developments in late twentieth-century literary criticism has been the impact of ecocriticism, and in Canada, as elsewhere, the country’s writers have exhibited a growing preoccupation with ecological issues, with the relationship between humans and the natural world, and with human impact on the environment. This current trend, however, has a long genealogy; unsurprisingly, in a country with such a huge land mass and a relatively sparse population, a concern with nature runs through the history of the literature of the country. While the editors are particularly interested in ecocritical approaches to Canadian literature, more broadly we welcome original submissions on Canadian writing concerning nature, the environment, and ecology, with no limitations as to region, time period, or type of writing. Interdisciplinary approaches are also welcomed.
Possible topics include:
• Ecocriticism and its particular implications for Canadian literature
• The nature/culture divide
• Literary representations of animals and/or natural spaces
• Rural and urban environments
• Borderlands and liminality
• Globalization, neoliberalism, and ecology
• Biodiversity and cultural diversity
• Nature, colonialism, and decolonization
• The exploitation and/or despoliation of the natural world
• The local, the bioregion, and sense of place
• Intersections between textuality and ecology
• Indigenous knowledges and becoming ‘native’ to a place
• Hunting, gathering, gardening, agriculture, and food
• Children and nature
• Environmental ethics, activism, and experimental pedagogies
Submissions should be 6,000-8,000 words, including Notes and Works Cited.
English submissions should conform to the MLA Handbook, 7th edition; French submissions should conform to Le guide du rédacteur(du Bureau de la traduction, 2 éd., Ottawa, 1996).
Please submit essays electronically via Word attachment to scl@unb.ca. Deadline for submissions is 15 August 2013, with publication scheduled for 2014. For more information, visit the journal’s website at http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/ or contact Herb Wyile at Herb.Wyile@acadiau.ca or Pamela Banting at pbanting@ucalgary.ca
CALL FOR PAPERS – Ecology and the Environmental Humanities
Rice University English Symposium
September 13-14, 2013
Keynote Speakers
- Claire Colebrook, Penn State University
- Timothy Morton, Rice University
The 2013 English Symposium at Rice University invites responses to the ecological and nonhuman turns in the humanities. These turns are undoubtedly responses to environmental crises, food shortages, global warming, factory farming, and species extinction, but this symposium is also interested in discussing the emergence of nonhumans, such as matter, objects, animals, systems, technology, and media, in our critical conversations surrounding these problems.
While the humanities have an opportunity to challenge the problems and solutions put forth by scientific discourses, the Anthropocene, the post-Natural, and the Posthuman come to challenge humanism. What are humanities scholars able to contribute to the conversations concerning ecology and nonhumans?
Papers can address these topics across a variety of periods, genres, disciplines, and theoretical frames, such as:
| Affect Theory
Biopolitics Capitalism and Political Economy Critical Animal Studies Critical Race Studies Cybernetics and Technology Disability Studies Environmental Activism Eugenics Food studies Gender and Sexuality Studies Geopolitics Green Capitalism History of Science |
Imperialisms Medicine and Disease
New Materialism New Media Object Oriented Ontology Population Studies Postcolonialism Posthumanism Psychoanalysis Reproduction Settlement Studies Social Movements Sustainability Systems Theory |
ISEE - International Society for Environmental Ethics 