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The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE, pronounced 'AZ-lee') was founded in October 1992 to promote the exchange of ideas and information about literature and other cultural representations  that consider human relationships with the natural world. The name of the organization is meant to be as inclusive as possible, encompassing any text that illuminates the ways humans perceive and interact with the nonhuman environment. An active and energetic community, ASLE encourages and seeks to facilitate both traditional and innovative scholarly approaches to environmental literature, ecocritical approaches to all cultural representations of nature, and interdisciplinary environmental research, including discussions among literary scholars and environmental historians, economists, journalists, philosophers, psychologists, art historians, scientists, and scholars in other relevant disciplines. In addition to encouraging new nature writing, we foster contact between scholars and environmentally engaged artists, including writers, photographers, painters, musicians, and film makers. We also promote the incorporation of environmental concerns and awareness into pedagogical theory and practice.

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UPDATED 23 April 2008
Registration Open for Rural Heritage Institute

Registration is now open for the Rural Heritage Institute at Sterling College, a four-day series of interdisciplinary academic, experiential, and instructional field-based workshops, scheduled for 11-14 June 2008. The event will highlight and strengthen connections between scholarship on rural communities in the Northeast broadly--and in the Northeast Kingdom specifically--and field experience with/in the working communities in the region. For more information on this ASLE-affiliated event, see the Institute web site.

UPDATED 18 April 2008
Spring 2008 ASLE News Available
The Spring 2008 issue (20.1) of ASLE News is now available for downloading as either a PDF file (856 KB) or HTML file (no images). This issue contains a report on the 2008 Officers Retreat; an update on the 2009 ASLE conference; information from the Managing Director on the member directory, new website, and member survey; news fom the Graduate Liaisons, OSLE-India, and ASLE-Korea; reports from the "Nature Matters" and MLA conferences; and plenty of calls for papers, manuscripts, and conferences.

POSTED 11 April 2008
Summary of ASLE Survey Results Available
A summary of the results from ASLE's 2007 membership survey is now available as a PDF file. More than 500 members completed the survey, which is now being used to improve ASLE's service to its members. Thanks for your participation!

POSTED 26 March 2008
2009 ASLE Conference Date Set
The date of ASLE's biennial conference at the University of Victoria in British Columbia will be Wednesday-Saturday, 3-6 June 2009, with pre-conference activities taking place on Tuesday 2 June. This is a change from the previously announced date due to scheduling conflicts at the University. A Call for Papers will be forthcoming this summer!

POSTED 22 January 2008
Beijing to Hold First Ecocritical Conference
Tsinghua University will be the site of Beijing's first ecocritical conference, "Beyond Thoreau: American and International Responses to Nature," on 10-12 October 2008. Sponsored by the Fulbright Commission, the conference will feature Scott Slovic, Greta Gaard, and Serenella Iovina as keynote speakers. A special exhibition related to the conference will also be held at one of Beijing's new art galleries, and side trips are planned to several of Beijing's outstanding parks, including the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, and the Western Hills. For more information, see the conference web site.

POSTED 12 October 2007
Planetary Blog Promotes Teaching the Environmental Humanities
Planetary: Teaching the Environmental Humanities is a new community blog, affiliated with ASLE, that intends to promote the discussion of teaching, and the sharing of pedagogical materials, among humanists and their allies as they confront environmental issues. Co-edited by Anthony Lioi, Kristen Abbey, Rick Anderson, and Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Planetary hopes to attract an interdisciplinary, polyglot, and international group of readers and writers. For more information, contact Anthony at alioi [at] juilliard [dot] edu.

UPDATED 8 July 2007
Summer Symposium to Explore "Keyboard in the Garden" in 2008
Delaware Valley College will be the site of an ASLE summer symposium on "The Keyboard in the Garden: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Literature and Mediated Nature" on 27-29 June 2008. Located in Doylestown, PA, the symposium will feature a keynote address by Annie Merrill Ingram, a banquet with live music, and optional field trips, including one to Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia. The conference is limited to roughly 100 participants, and on-campus housing will be available to all of them for the full conference. One-page proposals are due by 29 February 2008. For more information, see the PDF copy of the call for papers.


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