ecocriticism and environmental studies

The Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites proposals for their spring 2019 conference, Insecurity, which will take place on May 2-4, 2019. 

Confirmed plenary speakers for the conference are: Neel Ahuja (UC Santa Cruz), Jennifer Doyle (UC Riverside), Annie McClanahan (UC Irvine), Mark Neocleous (Brunel University London), Safiya Noble (USC), Naomi Paik (Illinois), and Saskia Sassen (Columbia).

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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
-Ursula Le Guin

Forming the Future

Confirmed keynotes: Amy J. Elias (Tennessee, Knoxville); Daniel Innerarity (Ikerbasque); Sandra Kemp (Lancaster/Imperial)

University of Plymouth, UK; Sept. 2nd(p.m.) and 3rd, 2019.

The Department of Philology at the University of Cantabria is pleased to host the
6th ASYRAS conference that will take place in Santander, Spain, from 27-29 June 2019.

The conference, with the title “On Potentialities” sets up a forum where early-
career specialists in English Studies can present the results of their research. The

We are putting together a special issue tentatively called “Dirty places: geographies of waste”. “Waste” is a broad and multifaceted concept, always open to interpretation. We want to keep it that way, partly because we are looking for fresh voices, and partly because we want to facilitate an interdisciplinary conversation. However, for clarity’s sake, waste is here defined as “material that we failed to use” (Gille, 2018). Gille’s succinct definition reads like an updated version of Mary Douglas’s (1966) classic take on “dirt” —“matter out of place” —, this time formulated under the banner of the Anthropocene. For a deeper look into the concept of waste, please read the following texts: