CFP: Oceans and Deserts 2016: Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
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The Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona will be holding a conference in the Environmental Humanities on April 1-2, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona. A selection of the CFP can be found below. For the complete CFP and more information on the conference, please see here.
We invite papers based on concrete examples or case studies from emerging scholars in all areas of the Humanities, for instance literature, visual arts, history, cultural studies, philosophy, gender studies, pedagogy, area/regional studies, linguistics, public policy/political theory, religion and ethics. The conference language will be English, but we particularly welcome our colleagues in German Studies. Possible topic areas and keywords include but are not limited to the following:
- animal studies
- anthropocene
- biopolitics
- climate change
- critical plant studies
- eco-criticism
- eco-feminism
- eco-systems
- eco-terrorism
- ecology
- environmental catastrophes
- environmentalism
- extinction
- “green”
- horticulture
- landscapes
- life forms
- nature/culture
- organic (“bio”, “öko”)
- posthumanism
- preservation
- recycling
- trash
- Umwelt
- water
- “the wild”
Due December 21, 2015.
