Calls for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Aesthetics in Times of Turmoil: A Conference on Intersections between Art and Ecology March 22–23, 2024

CENTRE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE King’s University College at Western University, Canada

The conference will include keynote addresses from Paul Harris (Loyola Marymount University), Nina Zitani (Western University), and Jan Zwicky (Emerita, University of Victoria).

THEME

During intensifying ecological turbulence and geopolitical conflict, entrenched habits of thought might suggest that questions of the aesthetic and the beautiful are dispensable luxuries. Such attitudes presume an image of the aesthetic ...

The Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization (LITCO) at Purdue University invites participants for our fourth annual symposium, “Rethinking Crisis & Status Quo.” We are interested in scholarly projects that discuss past, present, and future intersections of crisis and status quo, including readings that challenge or rearticulate crisis and status quo as conceptual categories. We conceptualize “crisis” broadly and welcome papers on personal, legal, environmental, professional, etc. crises. In addition to the approaches listed below, projects may investigate questions such as, “How are ...

3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century

Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey)

May 20-22, 2024

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Although ecocriticism has always kept its initial emphasis on the “relationship between literature and the physical environment” (Glotfelty 1996), over the last decade it has “entered into fruitful interdisciplinary collaborations with other disciplines under the umbrella of the environmental humanities” (Goodbody, Flys Junquera, Oppermann 2020). It has expanded its boundaries, ...

For 2024, the annual conferences of the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) and the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu), together with the biennial conference of the Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit), will be combined into a single meeting. This will be the first time that these three societies have joined together to share research at the many intersections of literature and science.

The conference will be held at the University of Birmingham, UK, over 10-12 April 2024. ...

Invitation to Apply Plant Animacies Workshop Claremont, California February 23-24, 2024

The Hixon-Riggs Program for Responsive Science at Harvey Mudd College invites abstract submissions for a two-day, works-in-progress workshop in Claremont, CA. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together a small collection of scholars and artists working on plant animacies broadly defined—from plants as agential beings that enact material change in the world to the ways that plants discursively inspire conceptions of what it means to be alive or lively. As such, pieces might explore how discourses ...

10th EASLCE (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment) Symposium

Sea More Blue: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Blue Ecopoetics Perpignan, June 17-20 2024

Keynote Speakers / Conférences plénières Ben de Bruyn Sidney Dobrin François Sarano Melody Jue

Invited Artist / Artiste invitée Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Call For Papers

Since the turn of the century, the stakes inherent in climate change have turned out to be indissoluble from the threats affecting coastal and marine ecosystems. Scientists around the world have provided evidence that global warming is interlinked with rising sea levels, ...

Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada 2024 Biennial Conference: Migrations Call for Proposals 19-22 June, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

ALECC Migrations CFP (PDF)

The 2024 Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) biennial conference takes migrations as its theme as it seeks new ways of comprehending and responding to the complexity of migration in the past, present, and future. Migrations, in its plural register, is understood expansively, recognizing its many forms and the modes of unevenly distributed power that shape migrant experiences, ...

Inaugural Conference of stsing TU Dresden, Germany March 19-22, 2024

Confirmed Keynote speakers: Nerea Calvillo (Warwick University) Amade M’charek (University of Amsterdam) Thao Phan (Monash University, Melbourne)

Leakage reveals cracks and holes; it signifies porosity, the transgression of a boundary, and a rebuke to fantasies of closure and containment. Unlike a sudden spill or a violent burst, leaks are sites of a slow and steady subversion. They corrode and accumulate over time, calling for a reckoning with temporalities of latency and a readjustment of perceptual scales. Leaks are evidence of ...

Call for Papers Western Regional Conference on Christianity & Literature 2024 ConVersing/ConServing: Care, Creation, Communion

May 9-11, 2024 Trinity Western University 22500 University Drive Langley, BC Canada V2Y 1Y1

Our keynote speaker: Marilyn McEntyre’s teaching and writing focuses on topics including American literature, medical humanities, literature and the natural world, portraiture and character in literature and art, and approaches to autobiography. Her many articles and books include Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies and Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict. She leads retreats and writing workshops and is ...

Thirteenth Biennial MESEA Conference: Moving Cultures, Moving Ethnicities

June 12-14, 2024, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• John McLeod (University of Leeds) • Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Eastern Finland) • Atlantic Studies Lecture: Tobias Skowronek (THGA)

Those of us who are “world”-travelers have the distinct experience of being different in different “worlds” and of having the capacity to remember other “worlds” and ourselves in them. — Maria Lugones, “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception” (1987)

We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to ...