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    UCM 2011 - Reading Nature International Conference

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    Category UCM 2011

    Deadline: April 30, 2011 | Date: December 14, 2011-December 15, 2011

    Venue/Country: Madrid, Spain

    Updated: 2011-04-01 19:40:43 (GMT+9)

    Call For Papers - CFP

    Environmental disciplines have recently gained prominence due to the potentially devastating consequences of climate change: increasing natural disasters, the greenhouse effect, temperature variations, changing sea levels, etc. Such issues have raised awareness on the necessity for a drastic change in thinking. Ecocriticism?along with other green disciplines dealing with the relationship between society and the environment?places nature as the center of the intellectual debate. As Kate Rigby states, "culture constructs the prism through which we know nature." Reading Nature Conference aims to explore from a critical perspective how such a prism is constructed. International reputed experts, along with young scholars will examine the way in which different notions on nature and the environment are conveyed in cultural manifestations.

    Possible Topics for Paper Proposals

    Ecopoetics: the rhetoric of environmentalism

    Sense of place and identity

    Reassessing ecocriticism: race, gender, sexuality and the environment

    Transcending ecocriticism: ecofeminism and feminine geographies; ecotheology; postcolonial/transnational ecocriticism and global ecologies

    Animal Studies: literary, visual and cultural representations of animals in history and in contemporary society. Figuring animals as sentient beings.

    Indigenous environmental aesthetics

    Representations of 'wilderness' in Anglo-American culture; mythologizing and demythologizing nature in literature and the arts

    Genre fiction and environmental representation: sciencie-fiction, gothic fiction, utopia, dystopia, narratives of apocalypse in all media

    Disaster narratives and environmental concerns in current narrative discuourses: literature, media, and the arts

    Writing/Representing climate change; popular perceptions of climate change

    Ecology and Literary studies: methodological tools and theoretical perspectives

    Other related topics

    Abstracts must be sent via e-mail before the 30th April 2011 to readingnature.ucmatgmail.com. The Organizing Committee will confirm receiving your abstract via e-mail as soon as possible. The authors will be notified of paper acceptance by the 20th May 2011.

    Abstracts may be submitted in English or Spanish.

    Papers are expected to be approximately 2500 words (15-20 minutes).

    Keywords: Accepted papers list. Acceptance Rate. EI Compendex. Engineering Index. ISTP index. ISI index. Impact Factor.
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