17-19 July 2017 The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Literature Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus Literary Environments is concerned with the different environments in which literature can occur, and our methods of translating between them. At this critical juncture in the Anthropocene, planetary responsibility and...
Call for papers The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic: A nearly carbon-neutral conference June 26th – July 14th 2017 More plastic was produced in the past decade than during the entire 20th century. We currently produce over 300 million tonnes of plastic each year. We have built a...
Call for Applications for Artist in Residence 2017, School of Geography, University of Melbourne The School of Geography in association with the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne seeks applicants for its Artist in Residency Program commencing April/May 2017. We seek a...
University of Leeds Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017 Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor Alexandra Harris (Liverpool); Professor Mike Hulme (King’s College London); Dr Adeline Johns-Putra (Surrey); Professor Toby Miller (Loughborough); Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) Our experience of...
In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language June 7-9 2017 [Residential Short Course June 10-14] Venue: Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EA, UK DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 22.00 GMT January 5, 2017 art.earth and Schumacher College invite you to submit a proposal for participation in the forthcoming summit In Other Tongues...
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities is a new edited collection published by Routledge (editors Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall and Stephanie LeMenager) Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students,...
LIVING TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH: ECO-SUSTAINABLE NARRATIVES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE/S The ANDA association (Associazione Nazionale dei Docenti di Anglistica) is pleased to announce a three-day conference on “Living together on this earth: eco-sustainable narrativesand environmental concerns in English literature/s” to be held at...
Animal Intersections July 3-5 University of Adelaide, Australia Keynote speakers: * Professor James Serpell: Humane Ethics & Animal Welfare, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine * Professor Colin Dayan: Humanities and Law, Vanderbilt University * Associate Professor Annie Potts: Cultural Studies and English and co-director of New Zealand Centre for...
Series editors: Gillian Overing, Wake Forest University; Heide Estes, University of Cambridge and Monmouth University; Philip Slavin, University of Kent; Steven Mentz, St. John's University This series in environmental humanities, published by Amsterdam University Press, offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from...
Enter The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize today! Calling all writers! The Nature Conservancy Australia is delighted to open the fourth biennial Nature Writing Prize. $5,000 will be awarded to an essay of between 3,000 and 5,000 words in the genre of ‘Writing of Place’. The...