ASLE Seeks Candidates for 2024 Officer Election
ASLE is a nonprofit professional association with a dynamic membership and one part-time professional staff member. ASLE thrives because of the commitment of its members to carrying out our work; therefore we invite our members to sustain this vital work and to shape our future by considering serving as an officer or coordinator.
This fall, ASLE will hold elections for:
Vice President Executive Council: Regional Collaboratories Seat Graduate Student Liaison (junior)If you would like to nominate yourself or another ASLE member for one of these positions, please ...
ASLE Panel on “Plant Humanities” at ALA 2025
ASLE Panel Topic: “Plant Humanities”
This is a call for papers for the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Panel at the American Literature Association Conference: May 21-24, 2025, The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA (in person – Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).
“Plant Humanities” will investigate how plants shape American literary and environmental landscapes, cultural narratives, and material of plants in literature, film, & popular culture:
Plants in narratology / storytelling / oral traditions Plant poetics & politics Plants & ethics of ...Environment and Communication: Shifting Perspectives, Creativity, and Conviviality from the Edge
The International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), in collaboration with the University of Tasmania’s School of Creative Arts and Media (CAM), invites scholars, artists, practitioners, and activists to the 18th Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE). COCE 2025, taking place 23-27 June 2025 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, will be a hybrid conference, offering opportunities for in-person and virtual presentation and participation, as well as interaction between in-person and virtual attendees. Submissions in familiar formats, as well as in creative and new formats, are ...
Early American Environmental Humanities
Panel CFP for the SEA-sponsored session at the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference, July 8-11 in College Park, Maryland
This SEA-sponsored panel invites contributions from those working on any project that highlights the diverse prospects and possibilities of an early American Environmental Humanities (EH) now. Ideally the panel would represent a diverse range of topics, texts, theoretical models, and methodological approaches.
The panel builds on two earlier SEA-sponsored panels at ASLE: “Environmental Humanities before 1900: Early American Prospects and Possibilities,” chaired by Michele Navakas (Portland 2023); ...