42nd meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
march 31 – april 2, 2022
New submission deadline: 15 January 2022
The organisers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers in English responding to the above.
Suggested topics:
- the politics and poetics of scientific, literary and artistic discourse on ecology
- ecology and academia
- ecologies of language and translation
- language, multilingualism, and translanguaging
- inclusive language pedagogies
- the Anthropocene and ethnocentrism
- public causes: political action, ecology, ethics, and rewriting
- ideology crises and new beliefs: disruptive humans and post-truth
- subaltern identities and protest: gender, class, nation, race, sexuality
- humanities, materialities, and the posthuman
- mobility, (in)hospitality, and community
- new forms of regulation, sanitation, and surveillance
- rights and citizenship in vulnerable environments
- beyond city and country: new definitions of environment
- animal studies and zoopoetics
- histories of the environment / historicizing ecology
Areas covered (but not exclusive): linguistics; literary and cultural studies; translation; language learning/teaching; other disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences.