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New Book: Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde

Posted on May 13, 2024

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, theatre, cultural studies, modern history, medical humanities, and visual culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880–1945) and themes of health Continue Reading »

New Book: Vitalist Modernism

Posted on May 13, 2024

Vitalist Modernism: Art, Science, Energy and Creative Evolution reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siècle until the Second World War for such Modernists as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hugo Ball, Juliette Bisson, Eva Carrière, Salvador Dalì, Robert Delaunay, Continue Reading »

Decodings Spring 2024 (May edition)

Posted on May 8, 2024

DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter                      Spring 2024, Vol. 34, No.2 (May edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate Diasporas (Dallas)*SLSA 2024 Awards and Prizes: Travel Grants; Essay, Book, and Lifetime Achievement Awards*Executive Meeting Notes *Election Statements: 2nd Vice President and Member-at-Large*Social Media Liaisons*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*New Book Series: Proximities: Continue Reading »

Special Issue: Essays in Romanticism on Bruno Latour

Posted on April 20, 2024

A special issue of Essays in Romanticism on Bruno Latour and Romanticism, edited by Allison Dushane and Roger Whitson: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/eir

Call for Papers SLSA 2024: Climate Diasporas

Posted on March 27, 2024

Climate Diasporas Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)November 7-10, 2024Sheraton Dallas, Texas This conference seeks contributions that think through the co-constitution of climates and diasporas. Today more than ever, these are mutually informed concepts. They are also plural, with ‘climate’ describing everything from political moods to affective exchanges to Continue Reading »

Decodings Winter 2024 (revised March edition)

Posted on March 23, 2024

 DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter                      Winter 2024, Vol. 34, No.1 (revised March edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate (Dallas)*SLSA 2024 Awards: Essay, Book, Lifetime and Travel Stipends *Executive Meeting Notes *Election Statements: 2nd Vice President and Member-at-Large*Social Media Liaisons*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness Continue Reading »

New Book: Listening After Nature

Posted on March 23, 2024

Listening After Nature: Fielding Recording, Ecology and Critical Practice by Mark Peter Wright examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature; expands site-specificity; and unearths hidden Continue Reading »

Tenure-Track Asst Professor of Humanities and Communication, Embry-Riddle A U – Worldwide

Posted on February 16, 2024

Please distribute widely. Speculative fiction and/or science and media scholars with knowledge and experience related to artificial intelligence are especially encouraged to apply. ** Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communication (Artificial Intelligence Specialization) The College of Arts & Sciences (COAS) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University–Worldwide Campus (ERAU-W) seeks a tenure-track assistant professor with a Ph.D. in English, Continue Reading »

New Book: Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction

Posted on January 18, 2024

With great pleasure, I invite you to celebrate the publication of my new book, Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement. There are two events, one in Helsinki and another in Turku – I hope to see you in one of them! Details below. Many thanks to all the ISSN members who have Continue Reading »

New Book: The Climate Action Almanac

Posted on January 18, 2024

Our Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University has just launched The Climate Action Almanac, a free digital collection of fiction, nonfiction, and art exploring positive climate futures, grounded in real science and in the complexities of diverse human and physical geographies. The book, which imagines climate action as growing up and out Continue Reading »