[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: Ecocriticism Conference (Antalya, November 4-6, 2009)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
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?"
Yunus Emre, 13th--century Turkish mystic poet
 
"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.
 
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 July 31, 2009 to ecocriticism at hacettepe.edu.tr. All e-mail
submissions will receive a confirmation of receipt.
 
For further information, please contact:
Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe University, opperman at hacettepe.edu.tr 
Ufuk Özdağ, Hacettepe University, ozdag at hacettepe.edu.tr 
Nevin Özkan, Ankara University, ozkan at humanity.ankara.edu.tr