[Commlist] CFP: Post-Fossil Fuel Furues & Utopian Imaginaries in Popular Culture

Call for Proposals/Presentations on

*Post-Fossil Fuel Futures and Ecotopian Imaginaries
in Popular Culture*

Ecology & Culture Area

Popular Culture Association 56^th  National Conference

Atlanta on April 8-11, 2026

Submissions open September 1 until November 30

The Ecology and Culture Area of the Popular Culture/American Culture 
Association is soliciting papers that address different aspects of this 
broad theme of the ways popular culture (movies, fiction, theater, 
futurism, environmental initiatives, climate justice, and other 
ecological and ecocultural initiatives) imagine (or fail to imagine) a 
world no longer dominated by fossil fuels.


While the climate crisis, rising temperatures and sea levels, 
relentlessly challenge our civilization and human ability and 
willingness to move beyond our current existential geopolitical and 
cultural stalemate, popular culture offers the means to play out 
possible scenarios, practices, policies, and imaginaries of how a better 
future world might unfold.

How does popular cultural, through movies, novels, comics, theater, 
games, music, and other forms express, reflect, and explore different 
ecocultural problems, aspirations, obstacles, and possibilities in 
efforts to create sustainable futures?

Other themes and topics on ecology and culture are also welcome. Some 
examples include:

·Changing media representations of nature

·Ecofeminist imaginaries

·Ecocritical reviews and essays

·Projects and campaigns to protect wilderness and other natural places

·Climate fiction and its audiences

·Solar punk futures and aesthetics

·Postcolonial ecologies and literature

·Hollywood’s obsession with eco-terrorism

·Post-apocalyptic realism and environmental catastrophe

·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) through http://pcaaca.org 
<http://pcaaca.org/>.


/Please be sure to specify this is for the Ecology and Culture Area/.


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