New Grounds: Ecocriticism, Globalization and Cultural Memory (deadline
proposals 1 Sept. 2009; Conference 13-15 January 2010).
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Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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“New Grounds: Ecocriticism, Globalization and Cultural Memory”

13 – 15 January 2010
Radboud University, Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
http://www.ru.nl/hlcs/newgrounds/

The first conference on ecocriticism in the Netherlands aims to bring
together scholars from different ecocritical networks and countries to
explore recent themes in ecocriticism. After its initial focus on the
local and the regional, ecocriticism is now facing challenges posed by
globalization, as explored in for instance Ursula Heise’s Sense of
Place, Sense of Planet (2008). Also, ecocriticism is still coming to
terms with postmodernism and its implications, while interdisciplinary
approaches to ecocriticism from the point of view of evolutionary
psychology, cultural memory and biosemiotics are gaining ground. “New
Grounds” will serve as a platform and forum for developments in
ecocriticism, offering the possibility for interaction and an
exploration of a variety of ecocritical themes in order to further
define and broaden the ecocritical field.

Organized in association with ASLE-UK and EASLCE, this international
conference aims to bring together scholars working in the fields of
literature, drama, the visual arts, film and music. Responses to
postmodern theory, globalization and cultural memory are particularly
encouraged. Also, the conference aims to explore (European)
ecocriticism to date, in particular during the plenary panel which
features panellists working on ecocriticism in a number of European
countries.

Topics can include but are not limited to:
• Post-modern – post-nature?
• The local and the global
• The future of ecocritical theory
• Ecocriticism and the visual arts
• Postcolonial ecologies
• Animal studies
• Figures of memory of nature
• Cultural memory
• Eco-cosmopolitanism
• Place and space
• Apocalypse
• The nature of cities

Confirmed plenary speakers:
Greg Garrard
Catrin Gersdorf
Serenella Iovino
Richard Kerridge

Plenary panel “The State of Ecocriticism in Europe”

A selection of papers will be published in a special issue on
ecocriticism of English Studies.

Please send proposals of 250 words for 20-minute papers by 1 September
2009 to: Astrid Bracke (a.bracke [dot] let [dot] ru [dot] nl) and
Marguérite Corporaal (m.corporaal [at] let [dot] ru [dot] nl).



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