Within Cli-Fi, Anthropocene Literature, Speculative Futurism, and visual cultures of the Anthropocene, increasing attention and sympathy have been given to the non-humans in narratives of climate crisis. From films like 20th Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes reboot to texts such as Ted Chaing’s Parrots of The Great Silence, The Strange Bird of Jeff VanderMeer’s same-named Novella, and the Elk-Headed Woman of Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians, to visual works like Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s The Substitute, Animal perspectives have never been more prevalent in narratives of human-driven climate catastrophe. This panel seeks new perspectives on Literature and visuals that centre the animal in critical papers considering either literature or visual media, as well as speculative fabulisms along the lines of Donna Haraway’s The Camille Stories that might envision new directions for the human and non-human to grow together in unstable climates. Topics for consideration might be:

- De-extinction 

- Animism

- Posthumanism 

- Anthropomorphization 

- Diaspora

- Companion Species 

- Kinship

- Inter-Species Conflict

Submit your abstract here: https://accute.ca/conference-2025-cfp-submissions/

Ben Berman Ghan, University of Calgary, Ben.ghan@ucalgary.ca
Margaryta Golovchenko, University of Oregon, Mgolovch@uoregon.edu