Organisers: Kiu-wai Chu and Soh Kai Ruo
Host: Asian Film Archive, Singapore
This online symposium centres on Asian Film Archive's Reframe series – “The (In)hospitable World”, based on both the selected films and texts that address ecological, environmental, and public health issues represented in cinema of Asia. The three panels will cover:
Call for papers
International Medieval Congress, Leeds (UK), 5-8 July 2021: Climates
Deadline: 20 September 2020
The Dantean Anomaly Project would like to host several sessions at the IMC 2021 and welcomes contributions to the subject:
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Animals & the Anthropocene
Please join contributors to Penn State UP's Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures series and the AnthropoScene series for a virtual panel on Friday August 28th @ 4pm EST. Nigel Rothfels will moderate and authors Marcus Baynes-Rock, Louise Green, Susan McHugh, Deborah Nadal will discuss their books and answer your questions. Free registration here:
The First Annual Small File Media Festival
August 10-20, 2020
Vancouver, Canada, and streaming at low bandwidth worldwide $1 membership, and by donation
Trailer at https://vimeo.com/smallfile
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Dear all, please note the cancellation of the symposium on Anthropocene Austria, originally planned for 11 June. The plans for the peer reviewed special issue of Austrian Studies (vol. 30, 2022) remain in place. We are now accepting abstracts with a revised deadline of 5 October. All best wishes, Nicola
When we began talking about organizing a nearly carbon-neutral (NCN) symposium on how the humanities can be rethought and repurposed in an age of rapidly worsening ecosocial crises.
The past several weeks have brought into further relief the necessity of building academic infrastructures outside of conventional conference formats. Furthermore, COVID-19 is testing our academic institutions and societies in ways that will offer many lessons as the humanities respond to longer-term issues, particularly the climate crisis and the spread of authoritarianism.
