[Commlist] Call for Papers/Presentations: Ecocultural Perspectives on Life in the Anthropocene

*Call for Papers/Presentations on*

*/“Ecocultural perspectives on
life in the Anthropocene” /*

2025 POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
55TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE

New Orleans Marriott, April 16-19, 2025


The *Ecology and Culture Area* of the Popular Culture/American Culture 
Association is soliciting papers for the 2025 PCA conference. Note: 
_Deadline for abstracts is November 30_.

Our theme on “ecocultural perspectives” is intended to be a broad appeal 
for presentations on interactions between the ecological and the 
cultural at a time when ecocultural relations have become especially 
critical.

The ”Anthropocene” is now frequently used to refer to that relatively 
short slice of time in the evolution of life where one group of primates 
managed to acquire powerful competitive advantages, leading to a 
dominant role and sense of entitlement now threatening the entire 
planet. What kind of ecocultural perspectives have been evolving within 
popular culture in stories addressing our relationship with the rest of 
the web of life?

The Ecology and Culture Area welcomes presentations on humanity’s 
engagement, celebration, exploitation and representations of “nature” 
and the earth’s ecological crises, and on the challenge to its 
population and institutions to visualize and implement alternative 
“sustainable” scenarios. This challenge applies to authors, 
readers/audiences, critics and others, engaging within nonhuman and 
human realm, in literature, film, streaming, condensing experience and 
desire into stories, song, poetry, dance, theater.

How do movies, novels, comics, theater, games, music, and other forms 
express ecocultural perspectives and imaginaries of this relationship 
and how it might evolve in a more sustainable direction?

Abstracts of papers exploring ecocultural perspectives, the 
relationships between ecology and culture, sustainable and unsustainable 
futures and related topics are welcome. Some examples include:

·Changing media representations of nature

·Climate fiction and audiences

·Solar punk futures and aesthetics

·Postcolonial ecologies and literature

·Hollywood’s obsession with eco-terrorism

·Post-apocalyptic realism and environmental catastrophe

·Ecofeminist imaginaries

·Ecological worldbuilding in gaming/VR

·The emergence and impact of the environmental humanities

·Eco-spirituality and faith-based activism

·Typologies of utopia/dystopia discourse

·Contemporary and classic eco-fiction

·Nature and settler colonialism in film & television history

·Diversity, equity & inclusion in ecocultural perspectives

·Eco-criticism/eco-critical theory

·Anthropocene narrative theory

·Cultural, social and political ecologies

·Documentaries on future ecological impacts and proposals

·Eco-activist podcasting

Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or 
speakers per standard session. Presentations should not exceed 15 
minutes. Working professionals, scholars, educators, and graduate 
students are all encouraged to submit.

Interested individuals are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 
250 words (including presentation title) and complete contact 
information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, 
and contact telephone number) to 
https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines 
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Make sure to check the *Ecology and Culture Area* in your submission.

*Please address any questions to:

*Jeffrey Barber
Integrative Strategies Forum
(jeffreyisforum /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(jeffreyisforum /at/ gmail.com)>

*Important Dates to Remember:*

  * Database opens for Submissions - *Sept. 1, 2024*
  * Early Bird Registration Begins - *Oct. 1, 2024*
  * Deadline for Paper Proposals - *Nov. 30, 2024*
  * Travel Grant Applications Due - *Dec. 15, 2024*
  * Early Bird Registration Ends for Presenters - *Dec. 31, 2024*
  * Regular Registration Begins for Presenters - *Jan. 1, 2025 *
  * Travel Grant Decisions / Notifications - *Jan. 15, 2025*
  * Regular Registration Ends for Presenters - *Jan. 31, 2025*
  * Late Registration Starts for Presenters - *Feb. 1, 2025*
  * Preliminary Program draft available - *Feb. 5, 2025*
  * Late Registration Ends for Presenters- *Feb. 15, 2025*

Those Presenters Not Registered by *Feb. 15 *Will be Dropped from the 
Program

CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, LA - *April 16-19, 2025*

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