31.590, Calls: Ling & Lit; Socioling/Italy

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:34:46
From: Eleonora Federici [eleonora.federici at unife.it]
Subject: Changing the (cultural) climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics

 
Full Title: Changing the (cultural) climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics 

Date: 21-May-2020 - 22-May-2020
Location: University of Ferrara, Italy 
Contact Person: Eleonora Federici
Meeting Email: eleonora.federici at unife.it

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 25-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

The discourse of the environment permeates attitudes towards the present,
representations of the past and perceptions of the future. 
How do languages, literatures and other modes of meaning-making promote
ecocritical frameworks that interrogate Western and Eastern anthropocentric
assumptions, biases and expectations? 
How do the environmental humanities test new hermeneutic tools to assess the
interdependence between natural and anthropic ecosystems? 
Our focus is on new narratives of fragile and resilient environments; the
im/material wellbeing of the organisms that live in them; the interconnections
between diverse forms of life.


The discourse of the environment permeates attitudes towards the present,
representations of the past and perceptions of the future. 
How do languages, literatures and other modes of meaning-making promote
ecocritical frameworks that interrogate Western and Eastern anthropocentric
assumptions, biases and expectations? 
How do the environmental humanities test new hermeneutic tools to assess the
interdependence between natural and anthropic ecosystems? 
Our focus is on new narratives of fragile and resilient environments; the
im/material wellbeing of the organisms that live in them; the interconnections
between diverse forms of life.

Topics and areas of research include:
Climate change fiction
Climate change and visual culture
Ecopoetry
Ecology and the theatre
Ecology and performativity
Ecosomatic approaches
The formation of ecological identity
Opinion formation on environmental issues
Public awareness and social media
The sustainability of heritage

We encourage contributions by scholars of Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics,
Ecofeminism, Green Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Semiotics, Translation
Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, Heritage Studies,
Ecotourism. 

Please send a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio-note by the 13th of March
2020 to: paola.spinozzi at unife.it, eleonora.federici at unife.it 
Acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to authors by the 25th of March
2020.

Scientific Committee
Paola Spinozzi
Eleonora Federici
Richard Chapman
Vanessa Leonardi

The Workshop will be hosted by the Department of Humanistic Studies,
University of Ferrara, in collaboration with the innovative PhD Programme in
Environmental Sustainability and Wellbeing,
http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/corsi/riforma/environmental-sustaina
bility-and-wellbeing.




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