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CALL FOR PAPERS
International
Symposium on Literature and the Environment in East Asia (ISLE-EA)
Unsettling Boundaries:
Nature, Technology, Art
November 22-23, 2014
Meio University,
Okinawa, Japan
The Association for the Study of Literature and
Environment in Japan (ASLE-Japan) invites proposals for its International
Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia (ISLE-EA), to be held from
November 22 through 23, 2014, at Meio University, Okinawa. This is the fourth
ASLE-related symposium focusing on the study of literature and environment in
East Asia; this time the major theme is reconsideration of binary oppositions,
such as monotheism and animism, nature and technology, the organic and the synthetic,
the local and the global, and East and West, that have been predominant in
ecocritical thinking patterns. Plenary speakers include Ursula Heise from UCLA.
We seek proposals for papers, panels, and
roundtables that address how we can “unsettle” practices that have contributed
to creating boundaries in our perceptions and values. Fields of study may
include but are not limited to: literary approaches to environmental issues, animal
studies, gender issues in ecocriticism, sense of place, environmental
humanities, media representation of nature, nature and art, technonature, or environmental
imagination in the anthropocene. Send proposals of 400-500 words to kinaikue@gmail.com
by April 30, 2014. Please include
your contact information, affiliation, and ASLE-related organization membership
in your email and attach your proposal as a PDF. Membership in ASLE-Japan, ASLE-Korea,
ASLE-Taiwan, or another ASLE organization/affiliate is required to present a
paper at the conference except for those who have been invited to speak/present.
Inquiries should be addressed to:
Ikue KINA
ISLE-EA Coordinator
International
Institute for Okinawan Studies
University
of the Ryukyus
Nishihara,
Okinawa 903-0213 JAPAN
