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Collective Atmospheres: 2025 ASLE Conference


Collective Atmospheres. The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) 2025 Conference seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts. Their vision is an inclusive community whose members are committed to environmental research, education, literature, art and service, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability. At this year’s conference, Centre member Reuben Martens will present a paper titled ‘Mako Metaphors: Final Fantasy VII Remake/Rebirth’s Eco-Revolution in the Activist Era’ on a panel called “Playing Video and Board Games in Climate and Energy Studies — Roundtable (Pedagogy, Public Engagement, and Activism); Panel Chair: Debby Rosenthal, John Carroll University”.

ASLE is a vibrant international community of scholars and teachers working across the humanities and arts, representing a variety of disciplines including literature, history, philosophy, environmental studies, cultural geography, film and media, cultural studies, women and gender studies, religious studies, ethnography, psychology, and anthropology. There are localised international ASLE collectives around the world, such as ASLE-UKI, ASLE Japan, ALECC (Canada), ASLE Brazil, etc., which probably makes ASLE the largest collective of scholars working on environmental themes in the humanities in the world.

You can read more about 2025’s conference here.