The deadline for proposals to next year’s Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference — arguably the largest and leading ecocritical conference in the world — is coming up in a few weeks.<\/p>\n
The conference\u00a0theme is “Notes from Underground:\u00a0The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice.”\u00a0Keynotes will include Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, Linda Hogan, and a host of others.<\/p>\n
Details below and here.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Notes from Underground:<\/strong> Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)<\/span> In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents at an important historical conjuncture: the novella\u2019s unnamed, unpleasant hero rails against capitalist industry, imperialist architecture and an emerging social scientific understanding of human behaviour premised on predictability and knowability. By writing from the underground \u2013 from the subterranean, from the murk, from the world of refuse \u2013 Dostoyevsky asks us to consider the importance of experiences that lie beneath (and both before and after) the shiny edifices of progress, rationality and industry. But the \u201cunderground\u201d also asks us to consider what lies beneath us much more literally: crust, tectonic plates, magma, minerals, fossil fuels, aquifers, lakes, caves, fungal networks, clay, compost, worms, ants, nematodes, roots, rhizomes, tubers, seeds, warrens, nests, vaults, graves, landfills, nuclear weapons and waste, buried treasure. In this act of collection \u2013 underground elements, underground agents, underground movements, underground epistemologies \u2013 we hope to draw attention to the multiple ways in which things underground and the institutions that variously cultivate, harness and contain them, are constantly changing the terrain (literally and politically) on which we stand.<\/p>\n Especially in the midst of such widespread focus on atmospheric climate change, perhaps we also need to look down, under, beneath and below for imaginative aesthetic, critical, pedagogical and activist responses? At our current political and ecological conjuncture, the literal underground is very much the subject of contest \u2013 extraction, pollution, depletion, neoliberalisation, cultivation, sovereignty, equity, (re)claiming \u2013 suggesting the need for creative new ways of engaging in activism, reading, writing and education in these networks of depth: underground arts, humanities, ecocriticism, justice.<\/p>\n For the 2015 ASLE conference, we seek proposals for panels, papers, performances, discussions, readings and roundtables that address this constellation of undergrounds. We invite participants to interpret the conference theme as broadly as possible and to imagine their work in terms not only of underground content but also of subterranean form: we particularly encourage non-traditional modes of presentation, including hybrid, performative and collaborative works; panels that minimize formal presentation in favour of engaged emergent discussion; interdisciplinary approaches; environmentally inflected (earthy?) readings of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, film, theatre and other media; and proposals from outside the academic humanities, including submissions from artists, writers, teachers, practitioners, activists and colleagues in the social and natural sciences.<\/p>\n Our list of keynote speakers includes Donna Haraway, Linda Hogan, Stephanie LeMenager, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Jorge Navarro, Anna Tsing, Rita Wong, and Tanure Ojaide.<\/p>\n For questions about the program, please contact 2015 ASLE President Cate Sandilands at\u00a0ASLE2015@yorku.ca<\/a>. For questions about the conference site, field sessions, progressive event and other local activities, please contact the conference site hosts at\u00a0asle2015host@uidaho.edu<\/a>. For questions about ASLE and membership, please contact Amy McIntyre, ASLE Managing Director, atinfo@asle.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read or download the full CFP:\u00a0<\/a>http:\/\/www.asle.org\/site\/conferences\/biennial\/<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0http:\/\/www.asle.org\/assets\/docs\/ASLE_Conferences_2015CFP.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n All proposals must be submitted by December 7, 2014<\/strong>. We will evaluate your proposal carefully and notify you of its final status by February 15, 2015.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The deadline for proposals to next year’s Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference — arguably the largest and leading ecocritical conference in the world — is coming up in a few weeks. 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\nThe Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23- 27, 2015<\/span>
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho<\/span><\/p>\n