Organizers: Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab in collaboration with Punjab Pollution Control Board; Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi; Assam Don Bosco University
Date: 7th – 8th April 2022
Venue: RGNUL Campus and Cisco WebEx
Vision of the Conference
Urbanization and modernization have greatly influenced the interaction between man and the environment in recent times. Man’s ability to exploit nature and her resources indiscriminately is responsible for the environmental crisis of the planet Earth. The excessive consumption of scarce resources, a huge amount of garbage, ozone layer depletion, and various types of pollution and extinction of species are among the major environmental problems. Nature stirs creative minds to write about the hungry tides, floods, fissured lands, unquiet woods, creatures great and small, belated spring, dust bowl, bio-piracy, the violence of green revolution, environmental injustice and climate change. This environmental literature also emerges from protests like the Chipko movement, Narmada Bachao Andolan. It reinforces the interconnectedness between living beings and their surroundings. Environmental education can sensitize one and all regarding the efforts and skills required to improve the quality of the ecosystem. The modern environmental movement dates back to the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962). Carson’s writing raises an alarm against the harmful effects of the contentious use of insecticides. She talks about the irresponsible acts of human beings that could silence the Earth. The changing relationship of human beings with the natural world gives rise to an array of fictional and nonfictional writings. The writings on endangered Earth engage human minds with ecological issues.
Eco-criticism explores the environmental dimensions of literature. Eco-criticism converges with its sister disciplines in humanities, history, anthropology, philosophy, ethics, law, religious studies, political science, geography, sociology and others, to understand the ethics of human-environmental interactions. Lawrence Buell traces environmental imagination and ecological ethics in the literary works of various American writers. He asserts that discourses on landscapes and toxicity can propel transformation in the environmental consciousness. Environmentalists and writers across disciplines reflect on the endangered existence of human beings, locally and globally. Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Donald Worster, Walt Whitman, Ramachandra Guha, Vandana Shiva, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Indira Sinha, Lakshmi Thiripurasundari, Syed Abdul Malik, Madhav Gadgil, Anupam Mishra, N K Sukumaran Nair, Barbara Kingsolver, Clara Hume, J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Gowdy and many more raise public awareness to the environmental concerns.
Various writings on Nature and Environment make ecological destruction intelligible to human beings. Several genres of Green Writing also suggest “ethics of earth care”. These include Earth Democracy, Stolen Harvest, Ripples in the River, Earth Songs, Longing for Sunshine, The Fissured Land, Environmentalism, Back to Garden, Walden, Dust Bowl, The Hungry Tide, The Drowned Earth, The Burning World, Mother of Storms, Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow, Ecofeminism, Ecospeak, Ecoambiguity, the Environmental Imagination, The Practice of the Wild, The Family Tree, When Species Meet, Wilderness into Civilized Shapes, Listening to The Land, Green Cultural Studies and The Great Derangement.
Sub-Themes
- Eco-poetics / Green Voices
- Ecofeminism
- Green Screen
- Post-Colonial Environments
- Critical Post-humanism
- Environmental Laws
- Green Politics
- The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity
- Environmental Justice
- Endangered Landscapes
- Transcendentalism
- Environmentalism
- Environmental Ethics
- Environmental History
Registration Details
Important Dates
- Submission of Abstract 17.01. 2022
- Intimation of acceptance of Abstract 27.01.2022
- Submission of Paper 05.03.2022
- Email for correspondence and submission: [email protected]
Registration Details for online presentation are as follows:
Research Scholars and Post Graduates: Rs.500/-(+GST)
Rs.900 (+ GST) (for Co-authors)
Academicians and Professionals:
Rs.700/-(+GST)
Rs.1300/-(+GST) for co-authors
No registration fees for international students
*Registration link shall be provided after selection of abstract.
Online Portal shall be functional from 22nd November 2021 to 31st January 2022.
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