Please see below for a call for panellists from Dewey W. Hall.<\/p>\n
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Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n PAMLA 116th<\/sup> Annual Conference November 11-13, 2016<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Panel Chair:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dewey W. Hall, Professor of English<\/strong><\/p>\n Affiliation:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona<\/strong><\/p>\n Email:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>dwhall@cpp.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Session Title:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Strange Place<\/em> of Ecocriticism: The Material as Cultural Artifact?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Site:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PAMLA 2016 at the Westin Hotel, Pasadena, CA.<\/strong><\/p>\n Submit Proposal to http:\/\/www.pamla.org\/2016\/topic-areas<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Deadline:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 June 10, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n The strange place of ecocritical discourse concerns the question of the materiality of nature as cultural artifact, or not. Paper topics for the panel may include writers as case studies to address the topic such as: Charlotte Smith, Wordsworth, Keats, Clare, Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Heaney, Lowell, Bishop, Berry among others.<\/p>\n Panel Proposal:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Lawrence Buell\u2019s The Future of Environmental Criticism<\/em> (2005) states, \u201cThe emergence of contemporary environmental criticism is in part the story of an evolution from imaging life-in-place<\/em> as deference to the claims of (natural) environment toward an understanding of place-making <\/em>as a culturally inflected process in which nature and culture must be seen as a mutuality rather than as separable domains\u201d (67, emphasis mine). Accordingly, Buell identifies two place-holders within the polemic of what he calls \u201cenvironmental criticism\u201d: \u201clife-in-place\u201d referring to the actual, natural, physical, and material aspects in the environment; and \u201cplace-making\u201d indicating the cultural, socially-constructed, and often political aspects involved in what Andrew J. Hubbell has called \u201ccultural ecology.\u201d On one hand, a redwood stands tall and majestic as a host for fern in a biome, as John Muir observed. On the other hand, that same redwood is part of Muir Woods National Monument authorized to preserve the redwoods.<\/p>\n The panel session invites paper proposals that take up discussion about the strange place of ecocritical discourse concerning the question of the materiality of nature as cultural artifact, or not, often represented through the production of articles, monographs, and editions. Papers may be interdisciplinary, transhistorical, transatlantic, or, more broadly, transnational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please see below for a call for panellists from Dewey W. 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