Calls for Papers

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2024 Boston, MA March 7-10, 2024

While the industrial food system has been lauded for positive changes to global diets, it has also resulted in remarkably uneven patterns of food scarcity and excess. As Mike Davis explains in Late Victorian Holocausts, “although crop failures and water shortages were of epic proportion—often the worst in centuries—there were almost always grain surpluses elsewhere in the nation or empire” (11). Rather than a condition of hunger amidst scarcity, in other words, the industrial ...

The Aesthetics of Contamination: Oceanic Environments, Identities, Intermedial Research-Creation

Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, 27-29 Oct, 2023

Deadline for Submissions: 31 August, 2023

In close collaboration with the University of Grenoble Alpes, Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, is organizing an international conference on October 27-29, 2023, on the oceanic environment with a focus on research creation and scholarship. This three-day international conference seeks to examine the aesthetics of contamination through a blue ecocritical lens to explore how the ocean has shaped cultural identities and ...

In Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s Animalia, set on a pig farm, a pivotal moment occurs when the unnamed human mother, “Genetrix,” feeds her stillborn fetus to a sow, eventually leading the latter to devour her own offspring. The accidental reversal of the roles of the eater and the eaten, described in this scene, not only exposes the fragile systems of (re)production that rely on the gendered exploitation of bodies but also challenges the anthropocentric human/nonhuman animal polarity. Recently, works such as Denis Cote’s documentary ...

International Conference on Sustainable Environments and Interspecies Ecologies: Literature, Creativity, Theory and Praxis 29-30 September 2023 Organized by Post Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha, India

Exploitation of natural resources fuelled by rapid expansive industrial growth and materialistic outlook towards world domination led to depletion and unimaginable destruction of the natural world. Acute global warming, melting Poles, rising seas, forest fires, food and water crisis, pandemics and war make the climate crisis a jarring reality. Sustainable environments and interspecies ecologies refer to a new way of thinking ...

An international conference titled PLASTIC TURN will be held on 3rd and 4th of August, 2023, at the University of North Bengal, India. The keynote speakers are: Haun Saussy (University of Chicago), Karen Thornber (Harvard University), and Olga Solovieva (University of Chicago).

Although the title of the conference is PLASTIC TURN, following on Ranjan Ghosh’s book The Plastic Turn and how he introduces this term into our critical discourse, this international conference broadens the ambit of intervention by emphasizing on plastic studies from a ...

CEP International Conference: Interweaving Anthropology, Science, and Narrative: Postanthropocentric Mappings in the Era of Climate Crises

Event dates: 1st to 3rd November 2023

Place: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Extended Abstract Deadline: 30 September, 2023

This conference organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur in association with University of Oldenburg, Germany can be attended both through online and offline mode.

Coordinator (s): Dr Saswat Samay Das, Liberal Arts and Critical Humanities, Department of Humanities and ...

This special issue of American Literatures (www.amlit.eu) will explore the question: how has the 21st century literature of the Americas responded to the greatest crisis in human history? Given the broad implications of the Anthropocene, contemporary eco-literature intersects with many ideas: ecocriticism, environmental justice, ecofeminism, ecoethics, place, and ethnic—particularly indigenous—literature. This issue of AmLit aims to explore responses to the ecological disasters posed by the Anthropocene in contemporary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and other relevant literary genres. Please send proposals of no more ...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Language Matters Social and Environmental Justice in Creative-Critical Practice Friday 7 July, Nottingham Contemporary, UK.

Keynote Speakers: Malika Booker and Hanan Issa

Calls for social and environmental justice have, in recent years, been amplified in response to inequalities across race, gender, class and geography brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter and Hands Off My Hijab movements, and the acceleration of anthropogenic climate change. Across the cultural spectrum, institutions are beginning to reckon with their imperial legacies, publishers ...

Western Literature Association Conference

Fort Hall, Idaho, Oct. 11-14, 2023

Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Abstract Length: Up to 250 words

According to Andrew Russell and Lee Vinsel, founders of an interdisciplinary network of researchers who call themselves The Maintainers, “maintenance and repair, the building of infrastructures, the mundane labor that goes into sustaining functioning and efficient infrastructures, simply has more impact on people’s daily lives than the vast majority of technological innovations.” Narratives that privilege invention and innovation, Russell and Vinsel contend, frequently overlook the ...

Climate Crisis, Lyric Crisis?:Contemporary Poetry and the Environment

‘Un- natural says the news. Also the body says it.’ Jorie Graham

‘I place my feet with care in such a world.’ William E. Stafford

‘Task: to be where I am.’ Tomas Tranströmer

What is the role of poetry in times of loss and unravelling? How do poets respond to environmental distress – and register the unnaturalness of the current weather – even as they continue to bear careful witness to their local landscapes and places? If ignorance about what is ...