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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:red'>[Please do not respond to this email address]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>9th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASCLE)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Transcreations - Creaturely encounters as cultural artefacts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>University of Granada, Granada/Spain<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>November 3-6, 2020<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><a href="https://www.easlce.eu/cfp-transcreations-creaturely-encounters-as-cultural-artefacts-9th-biennial-easlce-conference-university-of-granada-spain/">https://www.easlce.eu/cfp-transcreations-creaturely-encounters-as-cultural-artefacts-9th-biennial-easlce-conference-university-of-granada-spain/</a><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2020 9th Biennial EASLCE Conference“There are no limits to the extent to which we can think ourselves into the being of another. There are no bounds to the sympathetic imagination”, Elizabeth Costello addresses her audience in J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals. With this statement, Costello seems to agree with Albert Einstein’s famous quote regarding the superiority of imagination over knowledge, making the la:er responsible for our limited and short-sighted human knowledge and understanding.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Literature and other artistic discourses feed on the imagination whenever authors/artists render to their public any experience other than their own, even those of individuals belonging to their own species. Thus, when it comes to imagining and rendering the fictional experience of a member of a different species, the role of the narrator/ poet/ filmmaker/ artist resembles that of a translator who moves between the source language (that of the other-than-human being whose experience is being rendered) and the target language (that of the human audience). In so doing, the translator may choose, or inadvertently fall into, the “compensatory humanism”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Braidoh (2012) warns against, which easily leads to instances of anthropomor-phisation that eventually deny the specificity of the other-than-human being. Alternatively, s/he may devise particular narrative, poetic, artistic strategies in an effort to focus on the message, while acknowledging proximity to the source language, even in the awareness that the recreation of that experience will always be mediated by the fact that the translator belongs to a different species, speaking a different language. Borrowing the concept of “transcreation” from the field of translation studies, which is closely connected to skopos theory, Carretero- Gonzaělez (2019) refers to those cultural artefacts as “interspecies transcreations”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The aim of this conference is to explore the way in which creaturely encounters have been textually rendered in order to transfer the experience of the nonhuman species to a human audience. As in all EASLCE conferences we welcome contributions from literary and cultural studies, philosophy, art history, translation studies, education, music, anthropology, and other Fields of environmental humanities.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Proposed papers/workshops may focus on, but are not restricted to topics such as:<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Affective ecologies (Weik von Mossner 2017)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Allegorical functions of other-than-human nature<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Biosemiotics and the language of more-than-human/other-than-human nature.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Empathetic imagination and education<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Ethical implications of textual representations of other-than-human experiences<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Interspecies transcreation<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Pathetic fallacy and anthropomorphisation<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Posthuman subjectivities<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Textual representations of animal and plant communications in literature and other artistic discourses.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Translation studies and foreign-language learning: changes in appreciation of other-than-human nature in translation and foreign-language acquisition.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Confirmed keynote speakers:<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Margo de Mello: Canisius College (Buffalo, NY); Animals & Society Institute<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Carmen Flys Junquera: Universidad de Alcalaě<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal>Invited keynote speaker:<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=DE>Florianne Koechlin: Blueridge Institute (Muenchenstein, Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Conference languages: English and Spanish.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please send your abstracts (300-500 words) and a short bionote to the local organiser by <b>March 31, 2020</b>. We accept 20-minute individual papers, pre-formed panels with three 20-minute papers and pre-formed roundtables with 5-6 papers of only 10 minutes each and time for discussion (paper-jams).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Local organiser: Dr. Margarita Carretero- Gonzaělez and the organising committee.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE>E-mail: <a href="mailto:easlce2020@ugr.es">easlce2020@ugr.es</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>---------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Information distributed by:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>American Indian Workshop (AIW)</i>  • <a href="https://www.american-indian-workshop.org/"> www.american-indian-workshop.org</a><span style='color:#0070C0'>  </span>•  Facebook: <span lang=DE style='color:#0070C0'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/americanindianworkshop/"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0070C0'>American Indian Workshop</span></a></span>  •  Linkedin: <span lang=DE style='color:#0070C0'><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/American-Indian-Workshop-4643588/about"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0070C0'>American Indian Workshop</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>***<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>41<sup>st</sup> American Indian Workshop, <span style='color:#4472C4'>April 01 – 04, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#4472C4'><a href="https://www.american-indian-workshop.org/">Indigenous Shapes of Water</a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty for the Study of Culture, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich/Germany<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>CFP: <a href="https://www.american-indian-workshop.org/AIW41/AIW41-Water-Cf.pdf">https://www.american-indian-workshop.org/AIW41/AIW41-Water-Cf.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Email: </span><span lang=EN-CA><a href="mailto:aiw41@american-indian-workshop.org">aiw41@american-indian-workshop.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>42<sup>nd</sup> American Indian Workshop, 2021<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Department of British and American Studies, European University Cyprus, Nicosia/Cyprus<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>43<sup> rd</sup> American Indian Workshop, 2022<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Esch-sur-Alzette/Luxembourg<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>***<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#C00000'>Postings to AIW mailing list:</span></b> <a href="mailto:members@list.american-indian-workshop.org">members@list.american-indian-workshop.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Attachments allowed: < 1MB <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Please do not add further email addresses into the “TO”, “CC”, or “BCC” field, this causes fatal bounce reactions. Postings by list members only)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe from the list: <a href="https://list.a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