Paper jam: Nonhuman Animal Cultures 

 To what extent have ecocriticism and the environmental humanities taken up the call to consider nonhuman cultures or reconsider the idea of culture itself in light of their existence? Contributions from many disciplines are welcome, including literary studies, cultural histories, animal studies, history, philosophy, anthropology, and more.

Please submit an abstract, 250 to 300 words on any example or aspect of the following:

Nonhuman avian culture(s)

Nonhuman oceanic culture(s)

Insect culture(s)

transcultural work of Sue SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH

Nonhuman cultures and PAR (participatory action research)

Environmental degradation/climate change and nonhuman cultural collapse

the idea of culture in ecocriticism and/or the environmental humanities

Primate cultural change

Nonhuman learning

Please submit your abstract and CV to Helena Feder, federh@ecu.edu, by December 17, 2024. This will be a session of six ten-minute papers or four fifteen-minute papers.