Archive
Off-Year ASLE Symposia and Conferences
Watersheds
2022 ASLE Symposium
June 24-26, 2022
Co-sponsored with and held at the University of Delaware
Organizer: Lowell Duckert
“Windows on Watersheds” ASLE News article summarizing the event
Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency
A Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium
July 10-31, 2020
Co-Sponsored with the University of California, Santa Barbara
Organizers: Bart Welling, Jacob Goessling, Jordan Kinder
Conference Web Site
Program of Panels
A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene
A Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium
June 14-30, 2018
Co-Sponsored with the University of California, Santa Barbara
Organizers: Bridgitte Barclay, Christy Tidwell, and Shannon Davies Mancus
Conference Web Site
Program of Panels
The Heart of the Gila: Wilderness and Water in the West
June 8-11, 2016
Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM
Host: Michaelann Nelson
ASLE Gila Program (PDF)
Call for Papers (PDF)
Toxic Borders and Bondages: Intersecting Ecology with Capitalism, Racism, Heteropatriarchy and (Dis)possession (Graduate Symposium)
October 21 – 22, 2016
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Hosts: Mika Kennedy and Mary Renda
Call for Papers (PDF)
Website
Sharp Eyes IX: Local, Regional, Global: The Many Faces of Nature Writing
June 7-9, 2016
State University of New York College at Oneonta
Host: Daniel Payne
Call for Papers (PDF)
Website
Towards Ecocultural Ethics: Recent Trends and Future Directions
October 9-11, 2014
Goa, India
Host: Rayson K. Alex
Website
Writing in Place: A Summer Writers’ Workshop on Place, Nature, Food, and Culture
June 9-20, 2014
Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT
Host: Pavel Cenkl
Website
Environment, Culture & Place in a Rapidly Changing North
June 14-17, 2012
University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau AK
Hosts: Kevin Maier and Sarah Jaquette Ray
Here are what some others have to say about the experience on their blogs:
- http://www.ecomediastudies.org/2012/06/26/ecomedia-at-the-asle-off-year-symposium-environment-culture-and-place-in-a-rapidly-changing-north/
- http://blog.terrain.org/2012/06/18/report-from-asles-off-year-symposium-in-juneau-alaska/
- http://www.aslediversity.org/2012/07/23/alaska-juneau-a-graduate-student-perspective/
- http://www.aslediversity.org/2012/07/03/alaska-the-land-of-intellectual-adventure/
The Third Annual Rural Heritage Institute: Is Local Enough? Promises and Limits of Local Action
June 18-20, 2010
Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT
Host: Pavel Cenkl
Website
Sharp Eyes VI:John Burroughs Nature Writing Conference and Seminar
June 7-11, 2010
State University of New York at Oneonta
Host: Daniel Payne
Website
The Keyboard in the Garden: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Literature and Mediated Nature
June 27-29, 2008
Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, PA
Host: Richard Hunt
Maine’s Place in the Environmental Imagination
June 2-4, 2006
University of Maine at Farmington
Host: Michael Burke
Announcement
International Conference on Nature and Human Nature: Land, Landscape and Cultural Constructions of the Environment
(ASLE-India conference)
September 21 -23, 2006
Department of English Pondicherry University, Pondicherry India
Globalization and the Environmental Justice Movement
September 23-25, 2004
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Host: Joni Adamson
Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest
June 4-6, 2004
The Highland Center, Crawford Notch, NH
Host: Pavel Cenkl
“Coming Nearer the Ground”: An ASLE Symposium on the South
October 24-27, 2001
University of Mississippi, Oxford MS
Hosts: Dixon Bynum and Ann Fisher-Wirth
Desert Crossings
January 4-6, 2001
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Hosts: Barney Nelson and Walter Isle
Food and Farming in American Life and Letters
June 15-17, 2000
Unity College, Unity, ME
Host: Allison Wallace
Japanese and American Environmental Literature
August 13-17, 1996
University of Hawai’i
Host: Frank Stewart
International Affiliate Archives
Past ALECC (Canada) Conferences
- 2010: “The Ecological Community”, Inaugural ALECC Conference, Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 19-21
- 2012: “Space + Memory = Place”, Okanagan College and the University of British Columbia, August 7-12
- 2014: “Culture, Justice, and Environment”, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, August 6-10
- 2016: MAKING COMMON CAUSES: CRISES, CONFLICT, CREATION, CONVERSATION, Queen’s University, Kingston ON, June 15-18
- 2018: WRACK ZONE, University of Victoria, BC, 20-23 June
- 2021: WATERSHED, LIT., FIG., Online, 8-22 July
- 2022: Currents + Flows: Ecologies, Creativities, and Materials, University of Saskatchewan, SK, 15-19 June
Past ASLE-UKI Biennial Conferences
- 2013: ‘Ecological Encounters: Agency, Identity, Interactions’, University of Surrey, 29-31 August
- 2012: ‘Composting Culture’, University of Worcester, 5-8 September.
- 2010: ‘Environmental Change – Cultural Change’, University of Bath, 1-4 September.
- 2008: ‘Activism, Apocalypse, and the Avant Garde’, University of Edinburgh, 10-13 July.
- 2006: ‘Discordant Harmonies: Ecocriticism in the 21st Century’, University of Lincoln, 8-10 September.
- 2004: ‘Cross-Fertilisations: Literature, Science and Nature’, University College Chichester, 16-18 July.
- 2002: ‘Creativity, Culture and Environment’, University of Leeds, 6-8 September.
- 2000: ‘Writing the Environment’, University of East London, 6-8 September.
Past ASLEC- ANZ (Australia-New Zealand) Conferences
- 2005: “Be True to the Earth”, Monash University, 31 March-1 April
- 2008: “Cultures of Sustainability”, RMIT, Melbourne, September 27
- 2010: “Sounding the Earth: Music, Language, Acoustic Ecology”, Launceston Oct 20-22
- 2012: “Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Image”, RMIT and Monash Universities, August 31 – September 2
- 2014: “Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions”, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 19-21 June
Past EASCLE (Europe) Conferences
- 2006: “Water: Literary, Cultural and Environmental Perspectives”, Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria, 28 April-1 May
- 2008: “Cultural Landscapes: Heritage and Conservation”, University of Alcalá, Spain, October 16-19
- 2010: “Environmental Change – Cultural Change” (joint conference with ASLE-UK), University of Bath, UK, September 1-4
- 2012: “NATURA LOQUENS:” Eruptive Dialogues, Disruptive Discourses, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), 27-30 June 2012
- 2014: EASLCE-NIES Joint Conference: “Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning”, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, 29 April–3 May
Past OSLE-India Conferences
- 2007: “Towards a Greener Era: Interdisciplinary Approaches”, Acharya Institute of Management and Sciences, Bangalore, June 8-9, 2007
- 2008: “Land, Culture and Knowledge Systems”, St. Ann’s College for Women, Hyderabad, India, 4-5 January
- 2010: “The Name and Nature of Ecocriticism”, National Conference of OSLE-India, Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), Thiruvarur, 6-7 December
- 2013: “Green Words for a Green World: Ecoconsciousness in Literature”, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Peelamedu, 12 February
Past ASLE-India Conferences
- 2011: “New Bearings in Ecocriticism”, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, 20-21 October
- 2006: “Nature and Human Nature: Land, Landscape and Cultural Constructions of the Environment”, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry India, 21-23 September 2006
Past ASLE-Japan, Korea and Taiwan conferences
- ASLE-Japan 20th Annual Conference, Meio College, Okinawa, Japan, November 24, 2014
- (ASLE-Japan has held a yearly conference since its inception in 1994, sometimes in conjunction with the other branches of ASLE in East Asia)
- 2014 International Symposium on Literature and the Environment in East Asia (ISLE-EA)
Date: November 22 – November 23, 2014
Venue: Meio University, Okinawa, JAPAN)
Host: ASLE-Japan - Joint ASLE-Taiwan, ASLE-Japan, ASLE-Korea Symposium on Literature and Enviornment, held in Kanazawa in 2007, Seoul in 2010, and Taipei in 2012.