Author: Libby Robin

CFP: Frankenstein 2018: Two hundred years of monsters

Call for Papers: Frankenstein 2018: Two hundred years of monsters 12-15 September 2018 The Australian National University, and National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra Two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus remains as topical as ever. Its...

CFP: Life Writing in the Anthropocene

Call for Papers: A special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies www.tandfonline.com/raut Guest Editors: Jessica White & Gillian Whitlock The University of Queensland We have, arguably, entered the age of the Anthropocene, a time when our environment has been substantially shaped by humans, rather than vice versa. It is...

CFP: Reenchanting Urban Wildness (Perpignan, France: June 11- 14 2019)

Reenchanting Urban Wildness: To Perceive, Think and Live With Nature in its Urban Environment International Conference, Perpignan June 11- 14 2019 Under the aegis of the CRESEM, UPVD GUEST WRITERS Belinda Cannone, French writer, sponsor of the PUP (Presses Universitaires de Perpignan), author of S’émerveiller, 2017. Nathanael Johnson, American journalist...

Bedrock Lectures on Human Rights and Climate Change (available online)

From January 31 to May 30, Spring Creek Project will present the Bedrock Lectures on Human Rights and Climate Change. The weekly, online lectures will feature leading writers, scientists, attorneys, community leaders, activists, and artists. Find them on Spring Creek Project's Facebook page, with a...

Ecofeminist Fridays (Melbourne)

Sit and read or listen with EcoFeminist Fridays at the University of Melbourne. Our weekly ‘read-ins’ aim to create a kind of refuge for critical ecological feminist thought and action. In the first half of 2018, we will be reading aloud, as a collective, from...