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Beyond the West: Ecocriticism and Non-Western Cultural Insights (NeMLA 2025 )

Philadelphia
Organization: NeMLA
Event: NeMLA 2025
Categories: Postcolonial, Hispanic & Latino, Interdisciplinary, Popular Culture, World Literatures, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian, Pacific Literature
Event Date: 2025-03-06 to 2025-03-09 Abstract Due: 2024-09-30

This proposed panel intends to explore the relevance of using ecocriticism to approach knowledges in non-Western cultural productions. Ecocriticism has opened doors to understanding societies and their unique ways of relating to nature in an epistemological sense. This field of study has now evolved to provide a framework that incorporates this knowledge to pressing issues such as climate change, environmental activism, justice and racism, indigenous ideologies, and contamination of spaces, amongst others. The global perspective of this field expands its reach beyond Western contexts, analyzing environmental issues across cultural, geographical, and political boundaries. This panel invites papers that analyze the representation of non-Western ways of knowing in cultural productions such as literature, cinema, arts, and photography. By discussing these types of knowledges, the panel explores the transformative and revolutionary potential of the Humanities and their evolution to foster inclusive and imaginative solutions for a more equitable and sustainable world.

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samiksha.puri@mail.mcgill.ca

Samiksha Puri