[Bilimsel Haber] CONF. CFO: *The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons *

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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?"
* <http://www.quotesandpoem.com/quotes/showquotes/author/yunus-emre/117178>

*                                                        Yunus Emre

"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
* <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

April 30, 2009 to

*ecocriticism at hacettepe.edu.tr*<ecocriticism at hacettepe.edu.tr>.


All email submissions will receive a confirmation of receipt. For further
information, please contact:

Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe University,
*opperman at hacettepe.edu.tr*<opperman at hacettepe.edu.tr>

Ufuk Özda?, Hacettepe University,
*ozdag at hacettepe.edu.tr*<ozdag at hacettepe.edu.tr>

Nevin Özkan, Ankara University,
*ozkan at humanity.ankara.edu.tr*<ozkan at humanity.ankara.edu.tr>



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