[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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