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"The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons"
| Location: | Turkey |
| Conference Date: | 2009-11-04 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-03-17 |
| Announcement ID: |
167602 |
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"The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons," organized by Hacettepe and Ankara Universities, Ankara, and co-sponsored by The Turkish Fulbright Commission, will be the first international conference on ecocriticism in Turkey. It welcomes papers on topics related to ecocritical studies from diverse theoretical and literary perspectives. The conference encourages papers on the following topics:
International responses to American and world environmental literatures
Ecocritical interpretations of Turkish literature and literatures of Turkic speaking peoples
Mediterranean environmental literatures
Ecocritical theory in new perspectives
Connections between Eastern and Western environmental sensibilities
Bioregionalism in theory and practice
Environmental ethics and aesthetics
Deep ecology and ecophilosophy
Postmodern ecologies
Ecopoetics
Environmental education and ecological literacy
Narratives of animals and animality
Ecological humanism in children's literatures
New ecofeminist approaches to literary texts
Ecocritical approaches to myths, legends and folk tales from around the world
Literature and environmental justice
Marine life and water in ecocritical studies
Literary responses to the global ecological crisis and climate change
Wild life conservation in ecocritical studies
The official conference language is English. The conference will be held at Limak Limra Hotel in Kemer, Antalya. For registration, payment, and booking, please visit our website:
http://www.ecocriticism.hacettepe.edu.tr/index.php Please submit your paper title, an abstract of no more than 350 words, your short bio, and your contact details (institution, mailing address, telephone number, email) by July 31, 2009 to ecocriticism@hacettepe.edu.tr. All email submissions will receive a confirmation of receipt. For further information, please contact:
Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe University, opperman@hacettepe.edu.tr
Ufuk Ozdag, Hacettepe University, ozdag@hacettepe.edu.tr
Nevin Ozkan, Ankara University, ozkan@humanity.ankara.edu.tr
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