Voices of the Earth: literary and linguistic perspectives in environmental humanities

Date: 04-Jun-2025 – 06-Jun-2025
Location: Białystok, Poland
Contact Person: Marcelina Kalinowska
Meeting Email: voicespase2025@gmail.com
Web Site: https://pase2025.uwb.edu.pl

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2025

Meeting Description:

Traditional scientific approaches provide important information on climate change and environmental degradation; however, they typically fail to address the underlying cultural, ethical, and philosophical dimensions of such crises. These are deeply interwoven with economic and political agendas, and thus need multifaceted solutions. Environmental humanities connects diverse fields, enabling dynamic and interdisciplinary dialogue, which is essential in enhancing scientific efforts and promoting comprehensive solutions to intricate global challenges. Through the examination of cultural narratives, historical patterns, linguistic frameworks, and ethical discourses, environmental humanities enables us to reevaluate our connection with nature. By exploring the potential for composing a common world that unites both human and non-human entities, environmental humanities encourages a holistic understanding of our place within the ecosystem.

Call for Papers:

We welcome papers on literature, language, and culture that address questions broadly related to environmental humanities*. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
– environmental harm/environmental justice/catastrophes and pandemics,
– ecological issues and enduring legacies of racism, enslavement, and colonialism,
– encounters between environmentalism and feminism,
– interrelationship between race, gender, poverty, and ecological concerns,
– climate migrations/climate trauma,
– natural landscape, landscape modification, ruins, spaces of abandonment,
– postnatural fiction, novels of the Anthropocene, Cli-Fi, extinction narratives, etc.,
– representation of objects/matter/non-human others in discourse,
– Indigenous knowledges and practices,
– ecodiscourses, practices of making and communicating ecological knowledge,
– media systems and artifacts embedded in ecological relationship,
– ecological analysis of language, ecostylistics,
– eco-translatology,
– ecological approach to teaching and learning, ecopedagogy, ecoliteracy,
– language ecology: language diversity, minority languages.

*We also welcome proposals for presentations and panels on a variety of topics, including those not directly related to the main theme of the conference, as long as they align with the broader goals of the event.

A 300-word abstract and 5 keywords should be submitted as an email attachment to voicespase2025@gmail.com by March 1, 2025. In your email, please include your name, affiliation, email address, phone number, title of the paper, abstract, 5 keywords and a brief bio note. For more information, please visit www.pase2025.uwb.edu.pl.

Deadline for submission: March 1, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2025
Deadline for registration: April 1, 2025

Please check the conference website for updates.