ecocriticism and environmental studies

Ecologies of Resistance:  Spaces and Embodiments in Medieval Texts

MLA - New Orleans, LA (Jan. 9-12, 2025)

This panel is being organized for the upcoming virtual undergraduate and graduate conference, hosted by Queen’s University’s ENGL859, on “Re-imaging and Re-engaging with the Victorians,” which takes place on April 18th from 9:30am-5:00pm EST. 

The Narrative Environments of Los Angeles: A Research Forum 

Date: Friday, April 19 

Time: TBD 

Location: Ide Room, USC Taper Hall (THH) 

In his essay “Walking,” Henry David Thoreau proclaims, “…in wildness is the preservation of the world.”  As the world continues to urbanize, it’s as important as ever to identify the diverse ways that humans interact with wildness in cities and reflect on how these interactions inform our understanding of, relationship to, and impact on nature.  This special session seeks papers that consider encounters of wildness in urban landscapes as depicted in literature, film, photography, music, video games, and other cultural texts from all periods and regions.  Though abstract on all relevant topics are welcome, special consideration will be given to proposals that interrogate how urban encounters of wildness:

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The John Clare Society of North America invites paper proposals for its guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Convention in New Orleans, January 9-12th, 2025. Scholarship on any aspect of Clare’s poetry, prose, life, and sphere of influence is welcome.

Abstract and short bio by 15 March 2024 to Erica McAlpine at erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk

Concept Note: In 1989, in WLA conference when Glotfelty first used the term ‘ecocriticism ’ and subsequently edited The Ecocriticism Reader with Harold Fromm, the global literary circle had had a new way of discourse. The narrative of the study of the relationship between art/culture/literature and the physical environment had been shifted from the human centric romantic approach to nature to the narrative of the biocentric approach to nature. It started to interrogate the role of human imagination in literature as well. This shift in approach fathered some naturecentric ecological narratives like Deep Ecology.

CFP: The 26th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG Conference- Deadline Extended

“Marxism and the Digital Public”

Weekend of April 12-14, 2024

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Keynotes: M.E. O’Brien (Pinko and Parapraxis) and Jasper Bernes (University of California, Berkeley)

Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a daylong conference that will explore the ways humans have imagined, depicted, and constructed representations and knowledge about the natural world over time. The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, naturalists, and collection professionals, as well as artists, filmmakers, climate activists, and others to consider the different forms of labor and expertise that have contributed to shaping past, present, and future understandings of nature as well as the place of humans within it.

International Conference Counter-Image 2024 - Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking: reimagining relationships in the world

7, 8 & 9 August 2024

Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas , Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

There is an extractivist monoculture of the way of producing images that performs imagery itself as a mere representation of a given world and which has the effect of homogenising pictures and, therefore, the possibility of performing worlds. How can we address these issues?

We are delighted to announce the EASTAP Annual Conference 2024, hosted by the Institute of the Arts Barcelona (Sitges, Spain), under the theme “Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance”. As host city, Sitges has been a biosphere destination since 2016, and is committed to environmental, economic, and social sustainability. 

The conference aims to bring together international scholars, practitioners, and researchers, inviting submissions for papers and presentations that delve into various aspects of this theme and offer fresh insights into the dynamic field of theatre and performance. 

Call for contributions to an edited book on 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea

March 1, 2024: please send brief proposals (2-3 paragraphs) to uc1@nyu.edu and yathanassakis@ucsb.eduby 1st of March, 2024.

July 1, 2024: first full drafts of the accepted proposals requested by 1st of July, 2024.

Studio Ghibli has been Japan’s most internationally renowned animation studio for nearly 40 years. Home to the animated feature films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli has developed a brand of animation that is instantly recognisable for its hand-drawn attention to the natural world, empowered young female protagonists and soaring depictions of flight. Often read as a creator of popular hit films at home in Japan, but as artistically oriented animation abroad, Studio Ghibli’s films demonstrate the fluidity of Japanese animation’s meanings as its travels the world. Making 24 animated feature films to date, Studio Ghibli has enjoyed international acclaim as a pioneering studio for animation.

Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
invites well researched unpublished articles (with an abstract of
maximum 250 words and 5 keywords), book reviews, and interviews
for Volume 4 Issue 1, June 2024 (Open Issue: 4.1)

Submission Deadline: 31 March, 2024

Sub themes (not restricted)