[AIW] CFP: Narratives of (Un)sustainability: Assessing U.S. Oil Culture, University of Lausanne, Lausanne/Switzerland, 27-28 September 2019
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Call for Contributions
Narratives of (Un)sustainability: Assessing U.S. Oil Culture
English Department, University of Lausanne, Lausanne/Switzerland
27-28 September 2019
https://wp.unil.ch/unsustainability2019/
Interested in presenting something? Please submit an abstract of 200-300
words and a biography of 100-200 words by 30 June 2019 to the conference
organizers:
Audrey.Loetscher at unil.ch <mailto:Audrey.Loetscher at unil.ch>
Agnieszka.SoltysikMonnet at unil.ch <mailto:Agnieszka.SoltysikMonnet at unil.ch>
Contributions should be twenty minutes in length, followed by approximately
ten minutes of Q&A.
Please note that there is no conference fee.
Topics
* (un)sustainability in American literature / popular culture / public
discourse
* the relationship between the oil culture and prevailing US national
narratives or myths
* the impact on American culture of rapid technological development
based on a seemingly limitless supply of fossil fuels throughout the 20th
century
* the effect of the oil peak or the 1973 oil crisis on American
cultural imagination and literary production
* the role of ecological writing (petro-fiction, cli-fi, eco-gothic,
the naturalist essay, nature poetry, .) in helping US citizens imagine a
different future
* narrating the transition: towards a post-carbon America
* Native American perspectives on resource exploitation and on
sustainability
* gender and ecology: masculine extractive, exploitive systems vs.
feminine regenerative, cyclic approaches
* the public and political role of writers and scholars in helping the
US envision a more sustainable culture
Contact
English Department
Anthropole 5100
University of Lausanne
1015 Lausanne - Chamberonne
Switzerland
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