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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · 5d

📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Assistant Editors

For details, please visit asle.org.uk/green-letter...

Green Letters: Green Letters: Call for Applications For Assistant Editors | ASLE-UKI

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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 6d

Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies

We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!

Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.

@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social

OLHJ_CfP.pdf

shorturl.at

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 16d

#workshop: "Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships Digital Workshop" (Friday November 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET, Zoom) @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social @asleecocast.bsky.social

Info: www.asle.org/stay-informe...

#envhum #envhist #ecocriticism #publicengagement #researchimpact

ASLE » Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships Digital Workshop

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · 19d

ASLE-UKI Online Seminar Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment

29 January 2026, 3:00-7:00pm GMT

Convenors: Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University) and Tess Somervell (University of Oxford)

Further details: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 21d

Exciting opportunity here for doctoral students with funding for travel.
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...

#EnvHum #Petrocultures

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · 25d

📣Did you know that ASLE-UKI members are entitled to a 30% discount via Taylor and Francis? You can access this on our website: asle.org.uk/green-letters/

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · May 19

#CFP: "Join the Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice – 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference" (Utrecht University, Netherlands, 14–17 April, 2026).

Deadline for abstracts: September 15th, 2025

More info: www.easlce.eu/join-the-orc...

Join The Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance And Multispecies (In)Justice - 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference – EASLCE

“Join the Orca Uprising!” – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Co-General Editor

For details, please visit
asle.org.uk/green-letter...

Green Letters: Call for Applications for Co-General Editor | ASLE-UKI

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE-UKI) conference in Galway is concluding with novelist Lisa McInerney reading from her Cork novels and in conversation with Patrick Lonergan. A fabulous end to a fantastic conference! @asleuki.bsky.social

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 13

Did you know that ASLE-UKI has a podcast? 🎧

Press play and follow 'Green Listening: Discussions in Ecocriticism' 🌿

We have exciting episodes lined up! 🎤

open.spotify.com/show/1nmpAhj...

Green Listening: Discussions in Ecocriticism

Podcast · ASLE-UKI · This podcast is run by the ASLE-UKI Postgraduate and Early Career Representatives. You can support ASLE-UKI by donating via this link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button...

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 12

ASLE-UKI Conference in Galway!

Day 0: Trip around Conamorra national Park

Day 1: Keynote from Dr Nessa Cronin: "Radical Hope in Dark Times" and my talk on the Crude Tunes panel about boll weevils and Black American automobility in 1930s blues tunes

A landscape of wild grasses, bogs, and hills

A female speaker behind a lecturn with a slide reading Creimeadh Erosion

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Christabel Scaife @christabelscaife.bsky.social · Aug 12

Back in Galway in glorious sunshine for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference! Come to the LUP table for discounted books or to talk about our book series Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...

@asleuki.bsky.social

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you’re at the @asleuki.bsky.social conference in Galway, take a look at my book The Unnatural Trade on the book stall. I have copies for sale at the special conference price of €30 - ask me in the coffee/lunch breaks. If you’re not in Galway, find out more at brycchancarey.com/bookshop/ind...

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 13

In the cavernous lecture hall at the @asleuki conference in Galway, John Brannigan is giving his keynote talk “On the place of herons in archipelagic writing”.

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 12

The WINNERS of the 2025 ASLE-UKI BOOK PRIZE are:

William Henry Searle, 'Elowen' - Creative Prose

Matt Howard, 'Broadlands' - Poetry

Joanna Allan, 'Saharan Winds' - Critical

Many congratulations!

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please consider filling in this survey circulated on behalf Dr Rick De Vos, as part of the 'Animals of Emotion Project': circlesofemotion.org/collections/...

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 12

And we're off! Welcome all to ASLE-UKI 2025, Erosion – Creimeadh!

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 11

Check out our final programme for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference ‘Erosion – Creimeadh’ in Galway.

asle.org.uk/events/galwa...

We look forward to welcoming you tomorrow!

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 2

📣📚The 2025 ASLE-UKI Book Prize Shortlists are now on our website! asle.org.uk/2025-asle-uk...

Congratulations to all shortlisted authors!

Winners for each category will be announced at the 2025 ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference in Galway.

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out our updated programme for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference ‘Erosion – Creimeadh’ in Galway.

Speaker biographies have also been added to the website.

asle.org.uk/events/galwa...

Let the countdown begin! ⏱️

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Jul 16

📣Check out our conference webpage for the latest updates, including a change of venue!
asle.org.uk/events/galwa...

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Jul 11

Check out our updated programme for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference ‘Erosion – Creimeadh’ in Galway: asle.org.uk/events/galwa...

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Jun 23

📣The provisional programme for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2025 is now on our website: asle.org.uk/events/galwa...

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · May 22

Registration is open for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference at the University of Galway, 9th,12th-14th August 2025.

Register here:
asle.clr.events/event/137893...

Our online day (9th August) registration fee starts at only €20 (early bird prices available until the 31st of May).

See you there!

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Apr 9

Happening today at 4pm GMT!

ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Mar 19

Our next ASLE-UKI Seminar 'The Animal and the Other' brings together Prof. Dr. Marco Caracciolo, Dr. Samantha Hind @samjhind.bsky.social, and Dr. Rob O'Connor on Wednesday, 9 April, 4-6pm GMT.

Convened by David Tierney

BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

ASLE-UKI Seminar The Animal and the Other in Science Fiction

This event is part of the ASLE-UKI seminar series. Convened by David Tierney (University of Liverpool).

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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