What can moving images do? An ecological thinking of the moving image This issue of Transformations calls for papers as provocations into the human-nature relation through the questioning power of the moving image. In particular, we are looking for contributions that focus on the function of...
International Australian Studies Association Biennial Conference 3-5 December 2018, The University of Queensland Unsettling Australia Australia, the oldest continental landmass on Earth, has had a relatively stable geographical history and, situated in the middle of a tectonic plate, it currently has no active volcanism. However the advent of...
Date: 14‒15 December 2017 Venue: Woodward Conference Centre, 10th Floor, Law Building, The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham St, Carlton, VIC Enquiries: Grace Moore (gmoo@unimelb.edu.au) Convened by: Stephanie Trigg and Grace Moore Whether it is red in tooth and claw or a goddess to be worshipped, nature is always...
South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference 14th - 16th February 2018 UNE FutureCampus 211 Church St, Parramatta, NSW, 2150 The Two Canaries Conference marks the 20th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, the pioneering international treaty on greenhouse gas emissions to which, in December 1997, 192 nations put their...
Call for papers, American Comparative Literature Association, 2018 Annual Meeting Organizer: Bogna M. Konior Co-Organizer: Nadia de Vries Contact the Seminar Organizers Pathography, or the documentation of illness, has been a consistent feature in feminist writing. From Woolf (On Being Ill, 1978), Sontag (“Illness as Metaphor,” 1978) and Lorde (The Cancer...
A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene A Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the University of California, Santa Barbara June 14-30, 2018 CFP online: https://christymtidwell.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/cfp-a-clockwork-green-ecomedia-in-the-anthropocene/ A troubling paradox lies at the heart of ecomedia studies: those of us who...
2018-2019 Sustainability Fellowship Jointly sponsored by the Society for the Humanities and the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University The Society for the Humanities together with the Atkinson’s Center invites applications for a one-year residential fellowship at Cornell University on the topic...
The Aarhus University Centre for Environmental Humanities is excited to invite proposals for contributions to an interdisciplinary conference on "Remaking the Museum: Curation, Conservation, and Care in Times of Ecological Upheaval." Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from across the environmental humanities and beyond, the...
Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word is hiring a program coordinator to develop events, coordinate writing and artist residency programs, and manage program outreach. This part-time position at Oregon State University in Corvallis (USA) includes a full benefits package. Applications are...
2nd call for papers, panels, and creative provocations The University Of Sydney, 11th -13th December 2017. Please send a 250-300 word abstract and affiliation details to kate.johnston@sydney.edu.au by 14th July 2017. Sustaining the Seas is an exciting and experimental refereed international conference that will bring together academics...