Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Image

4th ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference
in association with RMIT and Monash Universities

August 31 to September 2, 2012

Following on from ‘Sounding the Earth: Music, Language, and Acoustic Ecology’ (Launceston, 2010), the 2012 ASLEC-ANZ conference, co-hosted by RMIT and Monash Universities, continues an ecological exploration of the senses with a focus on vision. Papers will consider the ecological implications of different ways of perceiving, imagining, valuing and representing Earth, whether understood as planet, place or collective, comprising a multiplicity of more-than-human entities, agencies and processes. The Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Australia-New Zealand) is a multi-disciplinary organisation, and the conference will include contributions from a wide range of research fields, including ecophilosophy, environmental history, cultural geography, religion and ecology, science studies and art history, as well as ecocritical literary and cultural studies.

The conference will open with a public forum at RMIT on ‘Re-Imagining the Global: Culture and Climate Change’ on Friday evening, 31st August, at which Ursula Heise and Tim Morton will also be speaking.

Selected papers will be published in a special edition of the new journal AJE (Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology).

Keynote Speakers

• Professor Ursula Heise (UC Stanford)
• Professor Timothy Morton (UC Davis)

Plenary Speakers

• Darryn McEvoy (RMIT U)
• Harry Nankin (RMIT U)
• Clive Hamilton (Charles Sturt University)
• Adeline Johns-Putra (U of Exeter)
• Freya Mathews (La Trobe U)
• Linda Williams (RMIT U)

Program

Final program and abstracts are now available. Download them below:

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