[AMS-announce] CFP: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, University of Victoria, June 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Eighth Biennial ASLE Conference
University of Victoria, British Columbia
June 3-6, 2009

"Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World"

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) invites proposals for its Eighth Biennial Conference, to be held June 3-6, 2009, at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada, on the theme of "Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World." 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.

MAKE IT COUNT: ASLE RESPONDS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS
At ASLE's last biennial conference at Wofford College in 2007, Bill McKibben said that if we were going to travel to a conference in a time of climate crisis, we should "make it count." We have taken this call to heart and made a number of changes to this year's conference in order to justify the costs of our collective resource use as best we can. In addition to creating as "green" a conference as possible in terms of our ecological footprint, we have attempted to create an intellectual and creative space where things can happen *that would not happen otherwise.* 

For additional information about the conference, including presentation formats, submission guidelines, biographies of plenary speakers, graduate student travel awards, and book and graduate student paper awards, see <http://asle.uvic.ca/>http://asle.uvic.ca/

Questions about the program? Email Dan Philippon at <mailto:danp at umn.edu>danp at umn.edu
Questions about the conference site and field sessions? Email Richard Pickard at <mailto:rpickard at uvic.ca>rpickard at uvic.ca

ALL PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY NOVEMBER 15, 2008.
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