*CFP* "CHANGING THE (CULTURAL) CLIMATE WITH ECOCRITICISM AND ECOLINGUISTICS", INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

Changing the (cultural) climate with ecocriticism and ecolinguistics

International workshop

Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara, Italy

May 21-22, 2020

The discourse of the environment permeates attitudes towards the present, representations of the past and perceptions of the future.

How do languages, literatures and other modes of meaning-making promote ecocritical frameworks that interrogate Western and Eastern anthropocentric assumptions, biases and expectations?

How do the environmental humanities test new hermeneutic tools to assess the interdependence between natural and anthropic ecosystems?

Our focus is on new narratives of fragile and resilient environments; the im/material wellbeing of the organisms that live in them; the interconnections between diverse forms of life.

Topics and areas of research include:

• Climate change fiction 
• Climate change and visual culture 
• Ecopoetry 
• Ecology and the theatre 
• Ecology and performativity 
• Ecosomatic approaches 
• The formation of ecological identity 
• Opinion formation on environmental issues 
• Public awareness and social media 
• The sustainability of heritage

We encourage contributions by scholars of Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics, Ecofeminism, Green Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Semiotics, Translation Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, Heritage Studies, Ecotourism.

Please send a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio-note by the 13th of March 2020 to: paola.spinozzi@unife.it, eleonora.federici@unife.it

Acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to authors by the 25th of March 2020.

The Workshop will be hosted by the Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara, in collaboration with the innovative PhD Programme in Environmental Sustainability and Wellbeing.