[Commlist] Conference: Narrating the Multispecies World, CfP

our call for papers for our interdisciplinary, hybrid conference 
"Narrating the Multispecies World. Stories in Times of Crises, Loss, 
Hope" is going to end soon. Until December 31, 2022, you still have the 
chance to submit your paper. The conference will take place from August 
3 to 5, 2023, at the University of Würzburg, and is organised by the 
Chair of European Ethnology.

We are looking forward to receiving your proposal with your name and 
email-address at: (multispecies.conference /at/ uni-wuerzburg.de). For more 
information, please visit: 
https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/eevk/multispecies-conference/.
Please feel free to forward the call to interested parties.

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Narrating the Multispecies World. Stories in Times of Crises, Loss, Hope
August 3 to 5, 2023, University of Würzburg
An interdisciplinary, hybrid conference,
organized by the Chair of European Ethnology

We are living in a multispecies world. Although the world is constantly 
changing, this change has accelerated extraordinarily in recent years, 
bringing forth substantial and manifold crises. Essentially caused by 
the capitalist pervasion of almost every part of our everyday, we are 
currently experiencing an increasing loss of diversity, particularly in 
the more-than-human world: due to changing circumstances in their 
original habitats, numerous living beings such as plants, insects, and 
mammals (including humans) migrate all over the world; some of them 
become extinct, and others are forced to adapt to new ecologies.
Narrating is a powerful practice. It allows us to understand what 
happens, and it enables us to shape the world, particularly in times of 
crises. Storytelling can also be seen as a practice of 
other-than-humans, as anthropologists Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van 
Dooren remind us of in their work. What are the stories of our 
multispecies world today? Which observations, needs, desires, dreams, 
nightmares, aspirations, and ethics are shared by narrating? Who is 
narrating which stories for whom, where, when? What is the role of the 
past, and which parts of our narrative heritage do we still maintain? 
What is the role of multispecies temporalities in narratives? What are 
the new powerful stories developing possibilities for a peaceful 
cohabitation in the multispecies world?
We are looking for critical scholarly studies and artistic projects 
focusing on narratives dealing with the effects of the current crises on 
the more-than-human world, particularly those involving more than one 
single species. The scope of possible topics is wide and ranges from the 
extinction of species, the loss of bio-diversity in the everyday lives, 
memories of former ecologies, historical experiences with extinction to 
present-day narratives about the returns of species and stories of the 
living together in emergent ecologies.
We will work with a broad concept of narrative culture to encompass, in 
addition to verbal art, diverse forms, genres, and media such as 
everyday narrations, films, fictional texts, multimodal artefacts, 
photographs, art installations, collages, inscription into landscapes 
etc. We invite scholars of any career level (including students) from 
different fields such as

  *   Ecocriticism
  *   Econarratology
  *   (Environmental) Humanities
  *   Multispecies Studies
  *   Extinction Studies
  *   Cultural and Social Anthropology, European Ethnology, Visual 
Anthropology etc.
  *   Literary Studies
  *   Arts and Art History
  *   History

to contribute to our exploration of the potentials of narratives in the 
multispecies world.

Please send your proposal with your name and email-address until 
December 31, 2022 to: (multispecies.conference /at/ uni-wuerzburg.de)
For more information, please visit: 
https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/eevk/multispecies-conference/

We can offer up to ten stipends of 500,00 Euros each to cover the cost 
for travel and accommodation of accepted speakers. Please inform us 
whether you are interested to apply for one of the grants when 
submitting your proposal.

For those who will participate in person, we request a conference fee of 
40,00 Euros for lunches and the conference dinner, and 20,00 Euros for 
the optional excursion, for which registration is needed.

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