ecocriticism and environmental studies

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives 

NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) |

Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros (25-27 September, 2025)

Concept Note

In recent decades, the term Global South has come to signify the distinctions between the industrialised nations of the “North” and the comparatively less developed nations of the “South.” The Global North-South designation, however, is not strictly geographical but instead reflects various geopolitical, economic, and ecological commonalities between countries.

Graduate Journal of Food StudiesSpecial Issue: Food and Loss

Loss permeates our lives, shaping our relationships with food, culture, and each other. How does the experience of loss transform our food systems, traditions, and identities? From ecological devastation to personal grief, food is inextricably tied to how we process and remember what has been lost.

Special Issue “World Mythology and Ecocriticism: Remembering Nature as a Sacred Teacher”

A special issue of Humanities.

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The Human Catalyst: Ecological Crises and Their Cinematic Echoes

ASLE 2025 CFP: Playing Games in Climate and Energy Studies

extended deadline for submissions: 

December 19, 2024

organizers:

Debby Rosenthal (drosenthal@jcu.edu) and Jason de Lara Molesky (jason.molesky@slu.edu)

Panel at Collective Atmospheres, ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park

JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
Vol. 48, No. 4, Winter 2025
Special Issue | Call For Papers

Reimagining the Ocean: The Blue Humanities in French and Francophone Studies

Guest Editors: Keith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA) and Isaac Joslin (Arizona State University, USA)

Abstract submission deadline: February 1, 2025
(150-250 words, send to both kam131@msstate.edu and ijoslin@asu.edu)
Final paper submission deadline: July 15, 2025
(Manuscripts in 5,000–10,000 words adhering to the MLA 9th edition)

The UC Davis English Department is hosting its third annual student-led Connections conference under the wide-ranging theme of “Landscapes.” Organized by the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), the Connections 2025 in-person conference examines the concept of landscape in its broadest sense—not only as a physical terrain but also as a cultural, social, political, and literary construct.

While we received a high volume of truly exciting submissions for the conference Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today, we are extending the deadline to further the interdisciplinarity of the event! As such, we are encouraging abstracts analysing contemporary discourses or intermedial representations of death in life across fields including (but not limited to): queer and sex studies, human rights, criminology, sociology, and medical humanities.

This conference explores haunted modernities and spectral futures of all sorts. Looking back to the past as a haunted space and forward to the ‘spectres’ of the future, we want ‘Haunted Modernities’ to be indicative of wide open spaces and fruitful intersections in scholarship and practice. Whether work is hyper-local, global, or interstellar we welcome imaginative, creative, ethical, and diverse discussions from all disciplines and subject areas. As well as traditional papers, creative practice work is also invited in whatever form - written, film, audio, performance, exhibitions etc. 

Eco-environmental criticism has now become a staple presence in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary landscape, calling for ongoing reflections on the human impact on the environment. A distinct aspect of these conversations has been the growing focus on the concern of ecological destruction for the planet, with all the inevitable consequences that this entails.  Within changing contexts that feel increasingly more precarious, conceptualisations of the ‘eco-futures’ have become central to our cultural discourses,  from film to television series, from literature to comics, from animation and video games to digital narratives, from architecture to design, from socio-ecology to animal studies. 

 CFP: 59th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference 

Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming ClimateVenue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid Dates: 23-25 April 2025; two days of in-person and one day of Zoom panelsKeynote Speaker: Kaniehtiio Horn.

Call for Papers

Title of the proposed edited collection:

Green Memories: The Temporal and Sensory Landscapes of Plant Life in Cultural Narratives

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CAPS (formerly CACLALS) 2025 from June 1 to 3, 2025
Proposals due: January 15, 2025

Keynote Speakers: TBA

Conference Theme: Postcolonial Studies, Sustainability, and Shared Futures

The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS) will host its annual conference from June 1 to 3, 2025, at (TBA) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Dickinson and Ecologies deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Li-hsin, Hsu / National Chengchi University  contact email: johsu@mail2.nccu.tw 

Dickinson and Ecologies

Emily Dickinson International Society + Wenshan Conference (Hybrid)

Department of English, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan

19-22 June 2025

(1 Day Critical Institute + 3-Day International Conference)

Call for Papers 

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024