Humanistic Approaches to Environmental OrganizingCFP Deadline: April 20, 2025Submission Requirements: Please email a 250-word abstract, brief bio-note, and A/V requirements to powellti@gvsu.edu.

Presentation Format: In-Person Only

In line with the 2025 MMLA Conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this ASLE permanent section seeks abstracts of 250-words which consider humanistic approaches to environmental organizing. Amid advancing ecocide and imperiled environmental action, how might humanistic approaches enable us to mobilize people and resources? Papers may take a range of approaches to address such topics including (but not limited to):

• Commons and collective approaches to environmental futures
• Legacies of environmental racism and settler-colonialism
• Transboundary and transnational frameworks and solidarities
• Theorizations of environmental crises and ecocriticism
• Petroscapes, enclosure, and spatial practices of extractivism
• Organizational frameworks and networks of environmental care
• Politics of “hope” in addressing range of environmental issues
• Languages and grammars of environmental organization
• Infrastructure, Industry, “Just Transitions”
• Literary, cinematic, televisual representations and theorizations
• Tech-/Industrial impacts to freshwater and climate
• Environmental Writing and Ecopoetics

Please submit a paper proposal of 250-words, a brief bio-note, and any A/V needs to Tierney Powell (powellti@gvsu.edu) by 20 April 2025.

"The Humanities is Where Hope Lives"
14-16 November 2025

Marquette University
1250 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53233

More information about MMLA: https://www.midwest-mla.org/conventionAll Convention Deadlines: https://www.midwest-mla.org/convention-deadlines