{"id":1021,"date":"2018-10-19T13:24:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2018-11-17T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T13:28:44","slug":"cfp-asle-2019-conference-paradise-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/2018\/cfp-asle-2019-conference-paradise-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: ASLE 2019 Conference “Paradise on Fire”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Call for Papers<\/p>\n

Deadline December 15<\/p>\n

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JUNE 26-30, 2019<\/p>\n

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Call for Papers (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

List of Panels Seeking Submissions<\/a><\/p>\n

Submit via Submittable<\/a><\/p>\n

This year the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) is experimenting with a two-part submission process intended to make the conference more participant-driven and democratic. The second step is this Call for PAPERS.\u00a0Proposals must be submitted by December 15, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST.<\/p>\n

A diverse array of panels has been chosen by the conference committee; this call for papers now invites anyone who wishes to submit a paper proposal for consideration for inclusion within a specific panel, or to the open call, between October 15 and December 15, 2018. Panel organizers themselves will choose presenters from the submissions that they receive; the panel organizer will evaluate your proposal carefully and notify you of its final status by January 10, 2019. All paper proposals that do not find a home in the panel to which they were submitted will be considered for placement into one of the conference\u2019s open panels. If you submit to the open papers call, or you were not accepted to the original panel you applied to, conference organizers will evaluate your abstract and you will be notified by February 4, 2019 of its final status. Only one paper submission per person is allowed.<\/p>\n

There are nearly 130 panels seeking participants on a variety of topics. Submitting to an accepted panel GREATLY increases your chances of being accepted to the conference, as there is very limited space on the schedule for panels formed via the open call for submissions.<\/p>\n

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Conference Theme: Paradise on Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf paradise now arises in hell, it’s because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2015 Rebecca Solnit,\u00a0A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster<\/p>\n

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The Biennial ASLE Conference will be held in Davis, California, in June 2019. Following a longstanding tradition, this conference gathers scholars and artists working in a diverse array of environmental humanities projects and offers a special focus on some themes that resonate well with the location of the meeting.<\/p>\n

Paradise does not exist, and yet that never seems to stop people from finding it, or building it, or dreaming its contours \u2013 often to the detriment of humans and nonhumans on the wrong side of its walls. Margaret Atwood\u2019s\u00a0MaddAddam\u00a0trilogy imagines a walled city with a climate-controlled dome called Paradice where genetic engineers create new forms of life, a bubble breached by human violence and climate catastrophe. In the sixteenth century Garci Rodr\u00edguez de Montalvo imagined a place called \u201cCalifornia,\u201d an island ruled by a dark skinned Amazonian queen with an Arabic name, Califia (Las Sergas de Esplandi\u00e1n).\u00a0California\u00a0was affixed to our maps by conquistadors, eager readers of Montalvo who believed the Earthly Paradise to be nearby. The price of its establishment was the genocide of the land\u2019s indigenous populations. The Greek word for Eden is \u201cParadise,\u201d a walled garden that bars entrance to most. Yet as Octavia Butler\u2019s dystopian vision of California on fire has shown, walls seldom lead to lasting safety and cannot exclude a turbulent world for long (The Parable of the Sower). If as Rebecca Solnit contends, \u201cparadise arises in hell,\u201d when democratic communities are built from the ground up during times of disaster that leave us \u201cfree to live and act another way,\u201d what might life in catastrophic times entail for the environmental humanities? How should we write, teach, protest, live, and act during this era when \u201cparadise\u201d is on fire, figuratively and literally?<\/p>\n

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The Biennial ASLE Conference \u201cParadise on Fire\u201d explores the connections among storytelling, real and imagined landscapes, future-making, activism, environed spaces, differential exclusions, long histories, and the disaster-prone terrains of the Anthropocene. Plenary addresses will be given by\u00a0Nnedi Okorafor<\/a>,\u00a0Cherr\u00ede Moraga<\/a>,\u00a0Melissa K. Nelson<\/a>, and\u00a0Ursula Heise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Topics may include but are certainly not limited to:<\/p>\n