ecocriticism and environmental studies

After the Catastrophe. Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Narratives”

Call for contribution: https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/announcement/view/123

In Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations, Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew insist that capturing the breadth of a disaster of this scale is “an inherently interdisciplinary task, one that draws us into conversation with a host of different ways of making sense of others’ world” (4). To portray this polycrisis as too large to be contained to one discipline is apt, with credible estimates designating between one- and two-thirds of species on earth as “likely to disappear within the foreseeable future” (Myers et al., 856).

International Conference at the Universities of Bern and Zurich, Switzerland, 09.-11. September 2025

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference

University of Salento (Lecce), 16-17 May 2025
Convenors: Maria Luisa De Rinaldis, Maria Renata Dolce and the IASEMS Executive Board

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference in Lecce, University of Salento, 16-17 May 2025, will investigate the imaginary of waters in Shakespeare and early modern texts, aiming at the exploration of notions of fluidity and crossing. The conference wishes to investigate what meanings, both personal and collective, circulated around ‘water’ in early modern culture, but also to discuss the water-related relevance and value of the ideas of shapelessness and transformation, mutability and sea change as opposed to fixity, solidity, and normativity.

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

CALL FOR PAPERS

Maps in American Literature, 15th-21st c.

 International symposium

April 1-3, 2026
ENS de Lyon, France

Organized by Aurore Clavier (Université Paris Cité), Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg, USIAS), Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon, IUF) and Pauline Pilote (Université Bretagne Sud).

Keynote speaker: Martin Brückner, Professor at the University of Delaware and Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (WPAMC).

Each year the Hemingway Society accepts applications for its Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship grant, and typically makes two awards of $1,000 each to support the development of a Hemingway-related project.

We are looking for papers for the panel Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium at the coming 4S (Society of Science and Society Studies) conference at Seattle, WA, United States, September 3-7, 2025. We hope to encourage submissions from different disciplines including media studies, critical infrastructure studies, urban planning, and history of STS. Submission (~250 words abstract) processes should be completed via official website of 4S below.

Rin Huang (they/she)

Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Tianren Luo (He/him)

Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University

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4S Open Panel (No. 12): Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium

The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical events that spark connections to nineteenth-century America. We are especially interested in episodes that help make both the nineteenth-century and the specific disciplinary knowledge of our scholarly community legible and exciting to a wide audience.  As our podcast grows, we seek to expand its potential to engage diverse publics in the civic and cultural life of the past.

Women in World-Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion
Conference dates: 19th and 20th June 2025

Abstract deadline
31st January 2025
Email to:womeninworldlitconference@gmail.com

This hybrid conference follows 2022's ‘Women in World(-)Literature’ which was also held at the University of Warwick.

Special Issue Call for Papers Bandung: Journal of the Global South Brutalism, Remaindered Life and World-making in the Precarious Global South: Representations in Fiction and Film

Objective

This special issue focuses on the critical practices that give rise to the notion of ‘brutalism’ and ‘remaindered life’ in the global South. Tied centrally to the militarized nature of neoliberalism, the concept of brutalism and remaindered life will be analyzed to understand how the divisive nature of neoliberalism is not only exploitative but aims to retain, even heighten the cultural supremacy, economic superstructure, and political power of the global North.

To think in terms of risk is to imagine the future as a set of foreseeable possibilities and to ameliorate the potentially hazardous ones through action in the present. Distinct from danger, which is seen as inchoate and incalculable, risk carries with it the notion of statistical, probabilistic, or otherwise enumerated legibility, and the costs and benefits of prospective courses of action are given the narrative authority of mathematical language. But even as risk posits itself as a rational approach to considerations of the future, it ignores the mythology of its own construction: risk is, as its critics note, always a process of storytelling.

Students in Writing Studies 4200, “Writing and Cultures,” will edit a collection of creative writing (visual art, poems and nonfiction writing) entitled "Through my Eyes" -- How we perceive world issues, crises or maybe even beauty. As such, they solicit writings from everyone (students, alumni, and the broader community) on this topic for inclusion in the collection.
Submissions could address the ways that we use our own experience to think about local, global, international or interpersonal issues.  Or, they could address the ways that local, global, international or interpersonal issues change the ways that we understand our own experiences.  

29th Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy

“Justice Centering Marginal Voices” 

May 22–24, 2025 in person at Denison University
(with hybrid online access by Zoom)