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EASLCE Newsletter 12.2 (Vol.12.2 Winter 2017/18) Newsletter Vol.12.2. Winter 2017/18 Dear EASLCE Members, In the summer of this year (2017), we had many famous inhuman The amount of carbon dioxide in the air is visitors who came howling from the Atlantic unprecedented in our era, the famed and occupied some North American Anthropocene that we address in heated landscapes. Their visits were relatively short debates. But the real heat came with wild but extremely intense. First came Harvey, forest fires raging across southern Europe Irma, and Maria. Harvey was forcefully affecting Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and present in Houston in August 2017, while Croatia. Euronews reported in October that the next month Irma made a catastrophic there were 1,671 blazes so far, and that due to landfall on Barbuda, and Maria on Dominica climate change Europe’s forest fires will rage at category 5 intensity. Forming in the more often in the future. Atlantic Ocean outside the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, Irma was the strongest • Call for Papers 4 of them all. But, when Maria arrived in • Project 9 Puerto Rico as a category 4, the devastation it caused was heart-breaking. There were • Conference Reports 10 also Jose and Irwin not waiting too long in line. While Europe was only an observing • Publications 15 party as this phenomena unfolded, suddenly an unexpected visitor arrived in Ireland: Ophelia, the strongest and most We all know that human impact on climate damaging storm on record in Great Britain. is undeniable, hence the dominant visions Calamities were not unique and epistemologies imposed by a mélange to the Atlantic region this year. In South of capitalist-consumerist and colonialist Asia, while India and Bangladesh suffered ideologies—the major culprits here—must from extreme floods that took thousands of be immediately abandoned for the lives (and not only human) and forced ecological health of the planet. No species millions of people to abandon their homes, can survive if it turns into terra ignota. China witnessed a deadly overflow of Earth system scientists warn us that there Yangtze river’s tributary, and Sierra Leone is a high probability we are heading “to a terrifying mudslides. And in Europe, very different state of the Earth System, temperatures continue to hit peaks, which one that is likely to be much less hospitable many scientists say has not been seen since to the development of human societies” the birth of meteorology (Steffen et al. 2015: 737). EASLCE Newsletter Vol. 12.2. Winter 2017/18 A Biannual Publication of the EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND ENVIRONMENT https://www.easlce.eu As marine anthropologist Stefan Helmreich institutions. I thank Molina Klinger (Germany) warns in Alien Ocean, “the oceans will not and Harri Salovaara (Finland) here for wash away our sins but rather drown us in successfully organizing and facilitating them” (2009:14), which reminds me of the webinars, most recently with Simon C. Estok common ship metaphor: “we are all in the (“The Ecophobia Hypothesis,” May 20, 2017) same boat.” Even if this metaphor is likely to and Ursula K. Heise (“Narrative, Biodiversity, raise some eyebrows in the ecocritical and Multispecies,” September 23, 2017) as communities (who are we? specify, how can hosts. victims and oppressors equally occupy an all- encompassing category as we?), it still Another means of reaching out influences human cultures. You know the for EASLCE is the effective use of social media. argument: everyone will drown eventually As you all know, we did have a Facebook page, when the ship sinks, but those holding first but to make it a more active platform to share class tickets get a better ride longer. The rich the latest news of EASLCE, we decided to exploit natural resources, destabilize earth update this page (actually “transform” would systems, and capitalize on technologies and be a better word here). This transformation ironically then escape the worst horrors of the was accomplished by Judith Rauscher from world they destroy. They may secure a place Bamberg University who gathered a wonderful for themselves in the lifeboat, but, even in that Facebook page team, consisting of Maria Pia lifeboat, they will find it hard to survive if Earth Arpioni from the Università di Venezia “Ca’ transforms into terra ignota. Foscari” and Sara Buekens from the University Ghent. They were at the forefront, while EASLCE takes an influential role Michaela Castellanos and Hanna Strass- in contesting anthropocentric positions, Sénol labored in the background. I call them spreading environmental awareness, the EASLCE Wonder Team and thank them developing ethical ways of addressing social wholeheartedly. You can find many relevant and environmental complexities, and investing online materials here, but our major platform in ecologically oriented cultural discourses, for information is our EASLCE website, which is among other tasks, through biennial being renewed by our webmaster, Michael international conferences, and webinars, Markwick (who is also a distinguished painter). through effective publications of its members Michael’s technical support for the new that find an audience worldwide, and through Facebook page is, of course, very important, education. What transpires in European but surely his major canvas is the EASLCE universities and academic circles in this regard webpage. You will see that the new theme he is certainly not confined within their borders. If crafted with high quality images gives the ecological threats know no borders or divisions website a totally fresh look. and travel freely without any restrictions, so do our projects and ideas at EASLCE. Graduate Michael added a lovely slider students, for example, from Asian countries on the main page that displays the EASLCE (India and China particularly) this year were so mission and everything it offers to draw in new excited to discover rewarding sources and new members, and he highlighted the link to our paths in ecocriticism and the Environmental flagship journal Ecozon@. There is now on the Humanities through EASLCE that helped open website another info stream of news media new horizons for them. that makes more visible new publications by members. Michael was also keen on designing Our webinars are particularly a new “Community Page” so EASLCE members affective in this regard attracting international and nonmembers can meet here and participants and involving many young people collaborate. Members will also see the link to from Europe and Turkey to Asia, who will be the new official EASLCE Facebook page there. the future voices when they carry the torch of http://www.facebook.com/EASLCE/ ecocriticism and spread the light in their own EASLCE Newsletter Vol. 12.2. Winter 2017/18 2 Most importantly, we can now post our In conclusion, let’s remember teaching material, syllabi, reading lists, course that 2018 is almost here with promises and descriptions, and notes in “Teaching hopes; but make no mistake, dire conditions Resources,” which will be particularly beneficial will not dissolve. Hurricanes and storms, for students and scholars of ecocriticism. droughts and floods, heat waves and wild fires My soliloquy about our will not unexpectedly vanish, nor will the resources to make a difference would be political leaders and economic decision makers incomplete if I didn’t mention our Newsletter, suddenly become more eco-conscious. But our which is so meticulously prepared by the Vice- work at EASLCE will be continual, our resilience President Uwe Küchler (and his team) and to enduring, and our connections perpetual. For whom I extend my sincere thanks. I must also as long as we continue to give voice to all that bring attention to the “Postgraduate Forum is agentic and that suffers the consequences of Environment, Literature, Culture,” whose environmental transformations, visitors like mission is to bring “together young researchers Harvey, Maria, Irma, or Jose may have less from the EASLCE membership countries to catastrophic effects. It is unlikely that the share and discuss their research with other storms will weaken; rather, we will have to young scholars in the environmental strengthen. Like Beckett’s unnamable humanities.” The 5th annual workshop this year character, “we must go on.” was held in Venice in November. On behalf of EASLCE, I extend my Best Wishes for a Happy New Year to all the members. (https://docforumelc.wordpress.com/postgrad uate-workshop-2017/). Serpil Oppermann, EASLCE President Finally, let me recapitulate what I had announced in the previous Newsletter: the 8th Biennial EASLCE conference on “The Garden: Ecological Paradigms of Space, History, and Community,” organized by Catrin Gersdorf and her colleague Roland Borgards, which will be held at JMU, Würzburg, Germany on September, 24-28, 2018. The good news is that the conference will coincide with the 2018 National Horticultural Show (Landes- gartenschau) in Würzburg, itself a city of gardens. I hope to see you all there. How to become a member of EASLCE? Visit our web site at: http://www.easlce.eu For further information contact Alexa Weik von Mossner: [email protected] EASLCE Newsletter Vol. 12.2. Winter 2017/18 3 Call for Papers Call for Papers 2017 ASLE Translation Grants Submission Instructions and Community In order to support work in applying to translate the scholarly work ecocriticism from international scholars of someone else, provide full and to expand exchanges across cultures information, if possible, for both and continents, the ASLE Committee for author and translator(s). Translations seeks proposals for books or 3. Information on original place and year other substantial projects (such as longer of publication and note any relevant articles) to be translated into English. This copyright issues related to the original is the third and final year that such grants press. have been offered. 4. A summary in English of the project. Proposed works should be This should include a brief overview of ecocriticism or fiction/non-fiction with a the book itself and a short summary of clear relationship to environmental issues, each chapter.
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