Final Paper Guidelines

 The objective of this final project is to write/prepare a paper that can be presented at a real conference, whether or not you actually submit it. The limit for MA students is 3000 words max, excluding bibliography (this is also the max. for a 20 min. paper).

I have been browsing through upcoming conferences related to our topics, but you can also suggest another one that you may find interesting (not necessarily with an explicit ecopoetic angle, but where you might fit in some of our seminar contents, and also perhaps combine them with your upcoming dissertation plan). One good place to start would be the Associação de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, thought their upcoming conference is not yet announced (I hope it will be in a few days, they have other good conference tips though): https://apeaa.pt/

Some Eco-humanities-conferences going on:

- Narratives of Water: https://environmentalhumanitieslarca.wordpress.com/2023/11/09/cfp-narratives-of-water-flows-routes-crises-in-the-atlantic-world/

- Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction (ASLE): https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20011297/cfp-asle-2024-symposium-green-fire-energy-stories-beyond-extraction

- The Beats: Wilderness and Wildness, https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/11/06/ebsn-2024-%E2%80%9Cthe-beats-wilderness-and-wildness%E2%80%9D-european-beat-studies-network-12th

All in all, in the upenn site, there are several upcoming conferences in ecocriticism and environmental studies: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies

PhD. students, who will have to present longer works (up to 5500 words), might also be interested in thinking of papers they can submit to calls of edited essay collections or journals, for instance:

Journal for Climate Justice https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/10/28/journal-for-climate-justice-winter-2023-submission-callout

or 

Ecozona: https://ecozona.eu/about/submissions

Important dates:


First Version of Paper December 5 (if possible) and no longer than December 7 Class discussion of paper versions: December 14 Final delivery of paper: December 29

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