ecocriticism and environmental studies

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2025

Philadelphia, PA

6-9 March 2025

See ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) listing for submission portal: https://www.acla.org/giving-literature-criticism-politics

Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.

ACLA conference will take place May 29–June 1, 2025, via Zoom.

Subject: Call for Papers: Literary Theory at CEA 2025

Call for Papers, Literary Theory at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

56th Annual Northeast MLA Convention

March 6-9, 2025 | Philadelphia, PA

Population and production are two terms used to characterize the nineteenth century in Great Britain. For example, the population in England more than doubled by the end of the century due to improving hygiene (i.e., hygeia), increasing birth rate, declining mortality rate (e.g., medical advances), and prosperity. Public health led to a greater commonwealth. The rise of the Industrial Revolution through factories, transportation (e.g., railway), and the synchronization of time stoked the great migration from agrarian to industrial centers. Would the population outstrip production? How could production evolve to keep up with the rising population?

4th International Poe and Hawthorne Conference: Dis/embodiment

Paris, France

July 1-4, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speakers

Richard Kopley, Penn State-Dubois: “Tales of a Poe Biographer” 

Joel Pfister, Wesleyan University: “Why Read Hawthorne Now?”

Two-Day

International Seminar

on

Mirroring Change: Literature and Social Transformation

3rd & 4th October 2024

Organized by

Research and Cultural Forum (RCF)

Department of English

Pondicherry University

Puducherry-605014

This panel seeks papers for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s (ASWAD) 12th Biennial and 25th Anniversary Conference that will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel from October 29th thru November 2, 2025. This year’s conference “I’ve known rivers”: The Ecologies of Black Life and Resistance” centers “the river, and waterways, as an analytical framework for Black lives past and present.” Water “serves as a prompt for urgent questions about landscapes and ecologies as well as diasporic ruptures, spiritual practices, labors of many kinds, fugitivity and resistance” (ASWAD CFP). 

Call for Proposals for Online Symposium: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil

Online Symposium Friday 24th January 2025

Keynote Speaker: Mona Damluji, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Oil is a cultural as well as material product. It is now pervasive in every aspect of modern life: transport, energy, communications and media, pharmaceuticals, farming, food ingredients and packaging, homes. As many scholars in the energy and environmental humanities have demonstrated, to understand our current dependence on oil and enact decarbonisation we need to contend with its cultural dimensions.

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

deadline for submissions: 

August 25, 2024

full name / name of organization: 

Shubhanku Kochar (Assistant Professor at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University) and Shehnaz Kabir (Ph.D. Fellow at Jadavpur University)

contact email: 

shubhankukochar@outlook.com

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

The Proposed work will be submitted to Routledge under its ongoing series “South Asian Literature in Focus”

Dark Entries: Rethinking the Horror in Folk Horror

Deadline: Friday, September 13, 2024

Symposium Date: Friday, October 11, 2024

Format: Online (via Zoom, EST)

Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone

Submit to: brooke.cameron@queensu.ca and noahrgallego@gmail.com

Organizers: Brooke Cameron, Ph.D. (Queens’ University at Kingston, Ontario, CA) and Noah Gallego, M.A. (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, USA)

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 49th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 24-26, 2022, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). Recent criticism of the works of Cummings has gone beyond his well-documented engagement with modernist aesthetic and poetic innovations. From Cummings’ visual and temporal poetics, to iconic meta-sonnets and rhythmic portraiture, to iconicity and ecology, and even to disability studies, the iconoclasm of Cummings in art and language presents a multi-dimensional i/eye that perceives and receives.

Sensing Environmental Networks 

Where does sensing occur: within the sensory organ, the perceived object, or somewhere in between? This panel draws on insights from environmental media to explore the history of sensations. We examine how the environment not only shapes our sensory reality but has also been used historically to define, measure, and standardize the senses.