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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2024-26: Disability Studies Position Description The Department of American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Brown University invite applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Disability Studies. This position is to be held jointly at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Department of American Continue Reading »
We are tremendously thrilled to announce that our edited volume, What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom, has just been released in glorious print by the University of Minnesota Press. It’s the newest member of the Debates in the Digital Humanities series, which is edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Continue Reading »
Current UC employees must apply internally via SuccessFactors > http://bit.ly/UCEMPL Founded in 1819, the University of Cincinnati ranks among the nation’s best urban public research universities. Home to over 50,000 students, 11,000 faculty and staff and 332,000 alumni, UC combines a Top 35 public research university with a physical setting The New York Times calls “the most ambitious Continue Reading »
Janice G. Doty LecturerMedical Humanities Rice University Location Houston, Texas Open Date Dec 18, 2023 Deadline Feb 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description The Medical Humanities Program at Rice University seeks to appoint a lecturer in the School of Humanities to teach courses that engage with ethics and equity issues in health and Continue Reading »
