The Panel on Planetary Thinking invites applications for the third round of a four-year fellowship program which explores what it means that we do not simply live ‘on’, but are part of an ever-changing planet. In 2024, two pairs of artists & scholars will be exploring Planetary Times in and through collaborative projects. Throughout their fully funded, three months residency at the Justus Liebig University (JLU), Giessen, fellows gain the unique opportunity to conduct research, create artworks, and engage in transdisciplinary dialogues between the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences
H-Animal aims to serve as an on-line home for scholars across disciplines who are engaged on the study of animals in human culture.
Be sure to check out the new syllabus contributions by Jody Berland, David Herman, Piers Locke, and Michal Pregowski in the Syllabus Exchange!
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Call for Papers
for a panel session at the 2nd International Congress “Humanities – Society – Identity: EVOLUTION / REVOLUTION”
Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
December 6-7, 2023
Keynote speaker: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The thematic focus of the panel session:
Evolutionary Aesthetics – Aesthetic Evolutions: Posthumanist Explorations with Darwin
In the humanistic discourse of the 21st century, primarily where it tests its own limits and seeks a transdisciplinary opening, the work of Charles Darwin is an important point of reference. It is enough to mention Jane
I'm trying to put together a panel for the April 2024 American Society for Environmental History annual conference in Denver about the value of experiential learning in teaching environmental history. Have you brought students on an amazing field trip? Assigned non-traditional assessments that encourage them to explore their local environments? Why do you think it matters so much for students to engage with actual places to understand their complex environmental histories? What are the challenges and hurdles to this pedagogical approach and how have you creatively overcome them?
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Registration is open for Cultures of Skin: Skin in Literature and Culture, Past, Present, Future, on 7th and 8th July 2023 at the University of Surrey, UK.
This conference brings together scholars working on literary and cultural representations of skin, across historical periods and transnational contexts, to create new dialogues on the cultural meanings of skin from the past through to the present day, and consider the current and future state of the field(s) of skin studies.
Across the 2 days of the conference, 28 papers will explore a range of social and cultural contexts and methodological