ASLE 2011 Conference:
Species, Space, and the Imagination of the Global
June 21-26, 2011, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Call for Papers
Marc Bekoff, Biology, University of Colorado; author of The Emotional
Lives of Animals, Animals Matter and The Animal Manifesto; founder of
Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Una Chaudhuri, English & Drama, New York University; author of Staging
Place: The Geography of Modern Drama and Land/Scape/Theater
Robert Fischman, Law, Indiana University; author of The Meanings of
Biological Integrity, Diversity, and Environmental Health and The
National Wildlife Refuges: Coordinating a Conservation System through
Law
Zakes Mda, South Africa, author of The Whale Caller
David Quammen, author of Song of the Dodo and The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
Jennifer Meta Robinson, Communication and Culture, Indiana University,
author of The Farmers' Market Book and Teaching Environmental Literacy
Anacristina Rossi, Costa Rica, author of The Madwoman of Gandoca
Helen Tiffin, Australia, author of The Empire Writes Back,
Decolonising Fictions, and Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Wilderness Plots, performance of a collection of songs and stories by
Scott Russell Sanders, emeritus professor of English at Indiana
University
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
invites proposals for its Ninth Biennial Conference, to be held June
21-26, 2011, at Indiana University Bloomington, on the theme of
"Species, Space, and the Imagination of the Global." We seek proposals
for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and other public
presentations connecting language, nature, and culture. As always, we
welcome interdisciplinary approaches; readings of environmentally
inflected fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction; and proposals from
outside the academic humanities, including submissions from artists,
writers, practitioners, activists, and colleagues in the social and
natural sciences.
The conference theme seeks to engage with questions of humans'
relation to nonhuman species, both plant and animal, and to explore
intersections between work on nonhuman species in disciplines such as
biology, anthropology, philosophy, neuroscience, literature, and art.
Our goal is to do so in a transnational framework that will allow us
to reflect on how different historical, geographical and cultural
contexts shape our encounters with the natural world and with
environmental crises.
The following topics are of particular relevance to the conference
theme; we also encourage submissions on other, related issues:
Visions and theories of globalization in their relationship to the
environment, including the resistance to globalization
Cultural geography in its contributions to environmentalist thought
Postcolonial ecocriticism and the geopolitical relationships that have
shaped different human populations' uses of natural environments in
the past and the present
Environmental justice
Environmental literature as world literature, including comparative
literature, cross-cultural approaches, borderlands writing, and travel
writing
Environmental disasters and their repercussions, including their
representations and cultural reactions to them (including both natural
and human-caused disasters), in their local, regional and global
ramifications
Environmental diseases, their local, regional and global spread,
prevention and countermeasures
New media for envisioning local and global processes, including GIS,
maps, graphs, visualization, databases, and other digital and
nondigital media
Studies of migration, both human and nonhuman
Wildlife conservation, including the policies and practices of parks,
refuges, and assisted migration
Ethnozoology and ethnobotany
Critical animal studies, including the question of a "posthuman" turn
Biotechnology and its transformations of biodiversity
The politics, cultures and pedagogies of climate change
Paper Formats
Participants are invited to submit paper proposals for 90-minute
sessions. ASLE welcomes scholarly panels and creative writing
presentations; proposals for hybrid or nontraditional panels should
indicate the nature and purpose of the presentations' unique features.
As in the past few years, we expect to receive more proposals than we
can accommodate; therefore, not all proposals will be accepted.
Proposals for fully constituted panels, with a thematic unity the
program committee cannot always provide, will be given priority over
individual paper proposals. We will accept paper and panel proposals
in English and in Spanish, and we welcome panels in Spanish at the
conference. We invite submissions for the following formats:
600-word proposals for 20-minute presentations in a traditional
session, three per session, or 15-minute presentations in a
traditional session, four per session
300-word proposals for informal presentations/position papers in a
roundtable organized around a single issue or question, four to twelve
per session
300-word proposals for 8-minute presentations in a paper jam, six to
seven per session
Proposals for pre-formed panels and roundtables should also include a
300-word abstract describing their purpose and the names and contact
information of the participants. Accepted abstracts will be posted on
the conference web site. For more detailed information on the
different formats and for submission guidelines, please visit the
conference website: http://www.indiana.edu/~asle2011/ .
All proposals must be submitted by Friday, November 5, 2010, on the
conference website.
Notifications of accepted and rejected proposals will be e-mailed by
February 15, 2011.
Pre-conference Workshops and Seminars on Tuesday, June 21
ASLE will once again offer a number of pre-conference workshops and
seminars led by prominent environmental writers and critics:
1) Graduate Student Workshop - Tom J. Hillard
2) Early Modern Literature & Ecocriticism Seminar - Simon Estok
3) Ecological Media & Ecocriticism Seminar - Sid Dobrin and Salma Monani
4) Place-Based Pedagogy Workshop - Jennifer Kobylecky, Aldo Leopold
Foundation
5) Human Natures: Approaches to Teaching EcoLiterature & Human Groups
(seminar) - Kimberly Ruffin
6) Global Indigeneity, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism Seminar
- Joni Adamson and John Gamber
Each workshop and seminar will last for three hours on the afternoon
of June 21 and will be limited to 15 participants. Advance
registration is required and will begin October 15 and close March 15
(or when full, whichever is earlier). Some pre-conference preparation
will be required for seminars, including short position papers.
Because titles of position papers will be listed in the conference
program, we encourage (but will not require) seminar participants to
consider attending the seminar in lieu of presenting at the conference
itself (rather than doing both). For further information or to pre-
register for pre-conference workshops and seminars, please contact
Greta Gaard: greta.gaard@uwrf.edu.
Conference Site
Bloomington, Indiana is a vibrant and friendly college town in the
rolling hills of southern Indiana, an hour's drive from the
Indianapolis International Airport and four hours from Chicago. The
city has a lively arts scene with half a dozen theater companies, a
wide range of music performances (including folk punk), colorful
murals, and the Bloomington Arts & Entertainment District (BEAD),
established in 2006 with lots of galleries, artworks and entertainment
opportunities. IU Bloomington is home to the Lilly Rare Books Library,
the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, as
well as the internationally renowned Jacobs School of Music, which
each summer hosts a high-profile classical music festival that
attracts thousands of visitors. Plentiful restaurants and the
Bloomington Community Farmers' Market highlight the city's investment
in locally grown food. Griffy Lake, a 1,200-acre nature preserve, lies
just minutes from downtown Bloomington. The region also offers many
possibilites for hiking, birdwatching and aquatic adventures.
National Geographic recently ranked Bloomington one of America's "top
adventure towns" thanks to the many opportunities for recreation it
offers.
Indiana University Bloomington's campus, which landscape artist Thomas
Gaines has called one of the five most beautiful in America, is
located near downtown Bloomington. The campus is fully wired and
wireless, and all classrooms for concurrent sessions are equipped for
computer projection and Internet access. Conference housing will be
provided in the university’s newly built residence center offering 2,
3, or 4-bedroom suites. Accommodations will also be available at the
Hilton Garden Inn (http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com), within easy
walking distance from campus. Downtown Bloomington can be reached via
regular shuttle bus service from the newly built Indianapolis
International Airport (http://www.indianapolisairport.com/). Both
Indiana University and ASLE are committed to making the conference as
accessible for the disabled as possible; the conference website will
provide more detail.
Field Sessions and Post-Conference Field Trips
As with past conferences, there will a number of half-day field
excursions on Friday afternoon and several post-conference field trips
on Sunday. Destinations will include the Lilly Rare Book Room; Goose
Pond, one of the largest restored wetland areas in the Midwest; Lake
Monroe, a successful bald eagle restoration site; the Stone Age
Institute; New Harmony, site of two of America's utopian communities;
and the Audubon Museum in Kentucky.
Questions about the program? Email Ursula Heise at uheise@stanford.edu.
Questions about the conference site and field sessions? Email
Christoph Irmscher at christoph.irmscher@gmail.com.
_______________
Amy McIntyre, Managing Director
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
PO Box 502
Keene, NH 03431-0502
Phone & Fax: 603-357-7411
Email: info@asle.org
Website: www.asle.org
Species, Space, and the Imagination of the Global
June 21-26, 2011, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Call for Papers
http://www.indiana.edu/~asle2011/
Plenary Speakers:Marc Bekoff, Biology, University of Colorado; author of The Emotional
Lives of Animals, Animals Matter and The Animal Manifesto; founder of
Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Una Chaudhuri, English & Drama, New York University; author of Staging
Place: The Geography of Modern Drama and Land/Scape/Theater
Robert Fischman, Law, Indiana University; author of The Meanings of
Biological Integrity, Diversity, and Environmental Health and The
National Wildlife Refuges: Coordinating a Conservation System through
Law
Zakes Mda, South Africa, author of The Whale Caller
David Quammen, author of Song of the Dodo and The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
Jennifer Meta Robinson, Communication and Culture, Indiana University,
author of The Farmers' Market Book and Teaching Environmental Literacy
Anacristina Rossi, Costa Rica, author of The Madwoman of Gandoca
Helen Tiffin, Australia, author of The Empire Writes Back,
Decolonising Fictions, and Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Wilderness Plots, performance of a collection of songs and stories by
Scott Russell Sanders, emeritus professor of English at Indiana
University
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
invites proposals for its Ninth Biennial Conference, to be held June
21-26, 2011, at Indiana University Bloomington, on the theme of
"Species, Space, and the Imagination of the Global." We seek proposals
for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and other public
presentations connecting language, nature, and culture. As always, we
welcome interdisciplinary approaches; readings of environmentally
inflected fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction; and proposals from
outside the academic humanities, including submissions from artists,
writers, practitioners, activists, and colleagues in the social and
natural sciences.
The conference theme seeks to engage with questions of humans'
relation to nonhuman species, both plant and animal, and to explore
intersections between work on nonhuman species in disciplines such as
biology, anthropology, philosophy, neuroscience, literature, and art.
Our goal is to do so in a transnational framework that will allow us
to reflect on how different historical, geographical and cultural
contexts shape our encounters with the natural world and with
environmental crises.
The following topics are of particular relevance to the conference
theme; we also encourage submissions on other, related issues:
Visions and theories of globalization in their relationship to the
environment, including the resistance to globalization
Cultural geography in its contributions to environmentalist thought
Postcolonial ecocriticism and the geopolitical relationships that have
shaped different human populations' uses of natural environments in
the past and the present
Environmental justice
Environmental literature as world literature, including comparative
literature, cross-cultural approaches, borderlands writing, and travel
writing
Environmental disasters and their repercussions, including their
representations and cultural reactions to them (including both natural
and human-caused disasters), in their local, regional and global
ramifications
Environmental diseases, their local, regional and global spread,
prevention and countermeasures
New media for envisioning local and global processes, including GIS,
maps, graphs, visualization, databases, and other digital and
nondigital media
Studies of migration, both human and nonhuman
Wildlife conservation, including the policies and practices of parks,
refuges, and assisted migration
Ethnozoology and ethnobotany
Critical animal studies, including the question of a "posthuman" turn
Biotechnology and its transformations of biodiversity
The politics, cultures and pedagogies of climate change
Paper Formats
Participants are invited to submit paper proposals for 90-minute
sessions. ASLE welcomes scholarly panels and creative writing
presentations; proposals for hybrid or nontraditional panels should
indicate the nature and purpose of the presentations' unique features.
As in the past few years, we expect to receive more proposals than we
can accommodate; therefore, not all proposals will be accepted.
Proposals for fully constituted panels, with a thematic unity the
program committee cannot always provide, will be given priority over
individual paper proposals. We will accept paper and panel proposals
in English and in Spanish, and we welcome panels in Spanish at the
conference. We invite submissions for the following formats:
600-word proposals for 20-minute presentations in a traditional
session, three per session, or 15-minute presentations in a
traditional session, four per session
300-word proposals for informal presentations/position papers in a
roundtable organized around a single issue or question, four to twelve
per session
300-word proposals for 8-minute presentations in a paper jam, six to
seven per session
Proposals for pre-formed panels and roundtables should also include a
300-word abstract describing their purpose and the names and contact
information of the participants. Accepted abstracts will be posted on
the conference web site. For more detailed information on the
different formats and for submission guidelines, please visit the
conference website: http://www.indiana.edu/~asle2011/ .
All proposals must be submitted by Friday, November 5, 2010, on the
conference website.
Notifications of accepted and rejected proposals will be e-mailed by
February 15, 2011.
Pre-conference Workshops and Seminars on Tuesday, June 21
ASLE will once again offer a number of pre-conference workshops and
seminars led by prominent environmental writers and critics:
1) Graduate Student Workshop - Tom J. Hillard
2) Early Modern Literature & Ecocriticism Seminar - Simon Estok
3) Ecological Media & Ecocriticism Seminar - Sid Dobrin and Salma Monani
4) Place-Based Pedagogy Workshop - Jennifer Kobylecky, Aldo Leopold
Foundation
5) Human Natures: Approaches to Teaching EcoLiterature & Human Groups
(seminar) - Kimberly Ruffin
6) Global Indigeneity, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism Seminar
- Joni Adamson and John Gamber
Each workshop and seminar will last for three hours on the afternoon
of June 21 and will be limited to 15 participants. Advance
registration is required and will begin October 15 and close March 15
(or when full, whichever is earlier). Some pre-conference preparation
will be required for seminars, including short position papers.
Because titles of position papers will be listed in the conference
program, we encourage (but will not require) seminar participants to
consider attending the seminar in lieu of presenting at the conference
itself (rather than doing both). For further information or to pre-
register for pre-conference workshops and seminars, please contact
Greta Gaard: greta.gaard@uwrf.edu.
Conference Site
Bloomington, Indiana is a vibrant and friendly college town in the
rolling hills of southern Indiana, an hour's drive from the
Indianapolis International Airport and four hours from Chicago. The
city has a lively arts scene with half a dozen theater companies, a
wide range of music performances (including folk punk), colorful
murals, and the Bloomington Arts & Entertainment District (BEAD),
established in 2006 with lots of galleries, artworks and entertainment
opportunities. IU Bloomington is home to the Lilly Rare Books Library,
the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, as
well as the internationally renowned Jacobs School of Music, which
each summer hosts a high-profile classical music festival that
attracts thousands of visitors. Plentiful restaurants and the
Bloomington Community Farmers' Market highlight the city's investment
in locally grown food. Griffy Lake, a 1,200-acre nature preserve, lies
just minutes from downtown Bloomington. The region also offers many
possibilites for hiking, birdwatching and aquatic adventures.
National Geographic recently ranked Bloomington one of America's "top
adventure towns" thanks to the many opportunities for recreation it
offers.
Indiana University Bloomington's campus, which landscape artist Thomas
Gaines has called one of the five most beautiful in America, is
located near downtown Bloomington. The campus is fully wired and
wireless, and all classrooms for concurrent sessions are equipped for
computer projection and Internet access. Conference housing will be
provided in the university’s newly built residence center offering 2,
3, or 4-bedroom suites. Accommodations will also be available at the
Hilton Garden Inn (http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com), within easy
walking distance from campus. Downtown Bloomington can be reached via
regular shuttle bus service from the newly built Indianapolis
International Airport (http://www.indianapolisairport.com/). Both
Indiana University and ASLE are committed to making the conference as
accessible for the disabled as possible; the conference website will
provide more detail.
Field Sessions and Post-Conference Field Trips
As with past conferences, there will a number of half-day field
excursions on Friday afternoon and several post-conference field trips
on Sunday. Destinations will include the Lilly Rare Book Room; Goose
Pond, one of the largest restored wetland areas in the Midwest; Lake
Monroe, a successful bald eagle restoration site; the Stone Age
Institute; New Harmony, site of two of America's utopian communities;
and the Audubon Museum in Kentucky.
Questions about the program? Email Ursula Heise at uheise@stanford.edu.
Questions about the conference site and field sessions? Email
Christoph Irmscher at christoph.irmscher@gmail.com.
_______________
Amy McIntyre, Managing Director
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
PO Box 502
Keene, NH 03431-0502
Phone & Fax: 603-357-7411
Email: info@asle.org
Website: www.asle.org
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