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Knowledge in the Wild: Ecological Consciousness and the Evolution of American Nature Writing

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Friday, August 15, 2025 - 12:55pm
Deborah Hall, South Atlantic Modern Languages Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19446

This panel seeks papers that explore how American literature has shaped--and been shaped by--knowledge of the natural world, from the transcendental reflections of the 19th century to contemporary ecofeminst and ecocritical perspectives. How have authors translated environmental observation and ecological awareness into literary forms of knowledge? How does nature writing reflect evolving understandings of identity, power, science, and stewardship.

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Planet LangLit 2026: International Conference on Language, Literature and Cultural Studies

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Friday, August 15, 2025 - 12:54pm
Mohammad Rahmatullah
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Planet LangLit 2026: International Conference on Language, Literature and Cultural Studies

Theme: Language, Literature, Education and Ecology for Planetary Justice & Inclusive Future

Date & Venue: 15 – 16 January, 2026 |

Hybrid |Green University of Bangladesh, Dhaka,
Bangladesh

Pioneering Bangladesh’s Language and Literary Conference with Global Impact!
Do you want your research to shape the future of language, literature, culture, and the planet?

Planet LangLit 2026 is your chance to break boundaries and connect with researchers from around the globe.

For the first time in Bangladesh, an international conference is offering publication opportunities in four globally renowned outlets:

ACLA 2026: Uses and Abuses of History in Literary Narratives

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Friday, August 15, 2025 - 12:54pm
ACLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

To bend a phrase by Fredric Jameson, narrative is a historically symbolic act. Literary
scholars and historians have long argued that not only are texts implicated in the time, place,
political events, and economic forces in which they get produced, but they also produce their
own ideas of and uses for history. Indeed, for Marxist, psychoanalytical, and deconstructive
critics (among other schools of thought), a text’s historical contingency needs to be rigorously
elaborated to determine how it works across varied sites (from social to political) and
contexts (from academic to public); moreover, to differing degrees, they all agree that it is

Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive

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Friday, August 15, 2025 - 12:53pm
The National Archives, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 19, 2025

Thursday 4th December 2025, The National Archives, Kew, UK.

‘Talking Records’ is a new collections-based symposium held at The National Archives every year. The theme for 2025 is pollution. Histories of pollution, contamination, and environmental damage can be found in a diverse range of records in the collections at The National Archives.