CALL FOR PAPERS
An International Conference
The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons
November 4-6, 2009
Hotel Limak Limra, Kemer, Antalya, Turkey
"If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?" Yunus Emre, 13th--century Turkish mystic poet
"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.
For registration, payment, and booking, please visit our website: http://www.ecocriticism.hacettepe.edu.tr.
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 Özdað, Hacettepe University, ozdag@hacettepe. edu.tr
Nevin Özkan, Ankara University, ozkan@humanity. ankara.edu. tr
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