<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/">https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/</a><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr height="14px"><td align="right" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="-1" color="#777"><b></b></font></td></tr></tbody></table><hr><div class="gmail-maincontent" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:13px"><tbody><tr><td><font size="+1"><b>ASLE Call for proposals</b></font><br></td></tr></tbody></table><hr style="font-size:13px"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="gmail-message" style="font-size:13px"><tbody><tr><td><font size="-1"><b>Allison Hedge Coke<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><<a href="mailto:allisonh@ucr.edu">allisonh@ucr.edu</a>></font></td><td align="right"><font size="-1">Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 5:08 PM</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding-bottom:4px"><font size="-1" class="gmail-recipient"><div>To: Dana Simmons <<a href="mailto:dana.simmons@ucr.edu">dana.simmons@ucr.edu</a>></div></font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table width="100%" cellpadding="12" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden"><font size="-1"><div dir="ltr">Hi Dana,<div><br></div><div>Forwarding ASLE Call for proposals</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none">https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;max-width:1140px"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 15px;padding:0px;float:right"><a href="https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/contact/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:6px 13px 10px;text-transform:uppercase;display:inline-block;font-weight:normal">CONTACT</a> <a href="https://www.asle.org/membership-account/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:6px 13px 10px;text-transform:uppercase;display:inline-block;font-weight:normal">MEMBER LOGIN</a> <a href="https://www.asle.org/join-our-community/donate/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background:repeat rgb(131,170,48);margin:0px;padding:6px 13px 10px;text-transform:uppercase;display:inline-block;font-weight:normal">DONATE</a></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;line-height:0;height:0px;zoom:1"></div></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-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ackground-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Reflecting on the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons during the 2016 Standing Rock protests, </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons notes that “[t]he conditions we breathe in are collective and unequally distributed. … The atmosphere is increasingly a sphere to be weaponized.” A few years later, this weaponization became clear as</span> <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">the unequally-experienced COVID-19 respiratory pandemic overlapped with protests over the chokehold murder of George Floyd at the hands of police—giving heartbreaking new relevance to the Black Lives Matter rallying cry, “I can’t breathe.” Meanwhile, deforestation and air pollution are again on the rise. The Amazon rainforest, for instance—dubbed the “lungs of the world” due to its ability to absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen—has come under intensified threats. Wildfires stoked by climate change fill the air with toxic smoke. And new research finds that unhoused people are disproportionately exposed to air pollution. Breath and air, as has become palpably obvious, are phenomena necessary for life, yet often overlooked and not equally available to all. As historian Achille Mbembe states, what humanity currently faces is “</span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">a matter of no less than reconstructing a habitable earth to give all of us the breath of life.</span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">” </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Fittingly, in our fields of ecocriticism, ecomedia studies, and environmental humanities, we find a nascent wave of work attending to the idea that air/atmospheres are at once specific to our individual bodies, unequally experienced, and shared by all biotic life across time and space. This work contributes to an emerging “respiratory humanities” and “atmospheric humanities” —the latter of which, as </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">the International Commission on Science and Literature and the International Commission on History of Meteorology recently declared in a joint</span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"> call for papers, considers </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">“the atmosphere’s agency as it becomes manifest as a medium, life-giver, carrier, nutrient source, threat and a concern in modern life, politics, and art.” </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Meanwhile, the prominent subfield of affect studies engages with more figurative conceptions of “atmosphere,” including mood and ambience. In sum, atmospheres become increasingly visible as sites of contestations and convergences where the intimacy of breath is bound up with wide-ranging environmental and cultural crises. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Of course, atmospheric thinking has a very long history. The idea of “bad air” as a disease vector is an ancient one, and it persisted into the 19th century in the miasma theory of disease transmission. In the 1800s, polymath Charles Babbage wrote of the air as a “one vast library” that serves as a repository of human and more-than-human history. Scientists Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin recently concurred, suggesting with their “Orbis Hypothesis” that the European colonization of the Americas left an atmospheric trace. And since the late 1970s, the ozone layer and greenhouse gasses have been major topics of scientific as well as public concern.</span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">We seek papers, creative works, and other forms of inquiry that engage with these concerns, broadly construed. Possible topics include but are not limited to: </span></p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">“Settler atmospherics” (Simmons) and Indigenous activism </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Climate and/as history; histories of weather </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Sensing air pollution; citizen science around air pollution</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">The emergence and role of the “respiratory humanities” or “atmospheric humanities” </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Relationship of the above to the “blue humanities,” “green ecocriticism,” and/or “energy humanities”; waves of ecocriticism</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Aesthetics of visibility/invisibility and air </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Representing air inequality in haptic, olfactory, or other non-visual media</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Unhoused populations and air inequality  </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Environmental racism and air inequality  </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Wildfires and smoke; prescribed burns and Indigenous fire knowledge as alternative technologies</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Respiratory pandemics and the media</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Rhetoric of anti-AAPI hate during COVID-19</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Masking and dis/ability rhetoric; long COVID and “crip time” (Alison Kafer)</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Air purification technology and the commodification of air (see Yangdon Li)</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">“Atmospheric rivers,” flooding, and representation  </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Representations of atmospheric layers (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere) </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Air travel and alternatives </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Space environmentalism: space debris, cosmic dust, extraterrestrial exploration</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Airwaves, radio waves, soundwaves—from podcasts to birdsong</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Affect studies and intangible/figurative atmospheres</span></li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">We also welcome work that engages in other ways with the larger concerns outlined above—including climate change, environmental health and justice, settler colonialism—and/or with the vision and mission of ASLE, which seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts. Our vision is an inclusive community whose members are committed to environmental research, education, literature, and art, as well as service, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability. See more here: <a href="https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/vision-history/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/vision-history/</a>.</span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Confirmed keynote speakers include: </span></p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://english.ucdavis.edu/people/hlhsu" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline">Hsuan Hsu</span></strong></a>, author of <em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">The Smell of Risk: Atmospheric Disparities and the Olfactory Arts</em>, and <em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Air Conditioning</em></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/11/16/perez-indigenous-poetry-book-award/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Craig Santos Perez</a></strong></span>, winner of the 2023 National Book Award for poetry</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-member/974-roane-j-t" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">JT Roane</a></strong></span>, author of <em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place in Philadelphia</em>, and co-leader of the Black Ecologies Lab at Rutgers</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://www.streetroots.org/users/kaia-sand" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Kaia Sand</a></strong></span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">, poet, activist, and Executive Director of <a href="https://www.streetroots.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Street Roots</a> (Portland, OR)</span></li></ul><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">CALL DETAILS </b></h4><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE welcomes proposals for the following presentation formats for our 2025 conference (described in more detail in the sections below): </span></p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">pre-formed panels of scholarly papers, creative readings, roundtables, or discussion symposia of between 4 and 8 presenters; </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">individual scholarly papers or creative readings, to be placed into panels;</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">pre-conference workshops</li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">While the vast majority of sessions will only be available to people attending the conference in person, there will also be fully virtual sessions and a virtual keynote to allow people who cannot attend in person an opportunity to participate (at a lower registration cost). <strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">These will be held on July 17-18 2025.</strong></span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">In-person plenary sessions will also be available to virtual participants, both as live streams and recorded, and a couple of virtual pre-conference workshops are planned. Other in-person conference sessions will not be available virtually, and we are not able to accommodate hybrid sessions at the conference. People who submit proposals to present at the conference in-person will therefore </span><i style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">not </span></i><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">be able to present at in-person sessions virtually. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Paper and Panel Submission Process </b></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">All presentation sessions will be 90 minutes long. We will accept proposals for the 2025 conference for both pre-formed panels and individual presentations, with no preference given to one type of proposal or the other. Both scholarly and creative submissions are welcome. ASLE encourages experimentation with alternative forms of presentation, discussion, and engagement, especially in pre-formed panels. We expect to receive more proposals than we can accommodate; therefore, not all proposals will be accepted. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Only one individual abstract submission is allowed per person</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. Participants can present only once during the conference as part of a panel; facilitating or participating in a pre-conference workshop or chairing a panel do not count towards this limit. If a pre-formed panel organizer wishes to submit two or more topically linked panels, that is allowed, but organizers may still only present on one panel.</span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">All presentation proposals must be submitted via the Pheedloop submission platform. Click on your submission format type below and fill out the required form. If this online submission requirement poses a significant difficulty, please contact us at </span><a href="mailto:2025asleconf@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">2025asleconf@gmail.com</span></a><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Please read below to find specific submission information for the various presentation formats, submission guides, and links to the submission forms. </span></p><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">PRE-FORMED PANELS</b></h4><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Proposals for pre-formed panels can be in several formats: </span></p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">traditional scholarly papers or creative readings, which must include a chair (who may also serve as a panelist) and four presentations of fifteen minutes each, followed by discussion time</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">discussion symposia (new in 2025), which must include four to six moderators who frame a topic and lead a discussion with the panel attendees</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">roundtables, which must include a chair (who may also serve as a panelist) and five to six panelists who speak for no more than 10 minutes each, followed by discussion time</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">paper jams, which must include a chair (who may also serve as a panelist) and seven or eight panelists who speak for no more than 7-8 minutes each, followed by discussion time</span></li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">We especially encourage groups engaged in artistic, pedagogical, activist, or other types of collaborative work to present the results of those efforts in one of the formats above. </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Alternative formats for pre-formed panels are also encouraged, such as visual exhibitions, interactive creative engagements, debates, etc. Please contact ASLE Conference Chair Beatriz Rivera Barnes at </span><a href="mailto:2025asleconf@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">2025asleconf@gmail.com</span></a><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">.</span> <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">before proposing such alternative formats. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">A proposal for a full panel session should be a summary abstract which gives a brief description of the session in 300 words (2000 characters) or less. This might include applicability to the conference theme, how it connects to the mission and goals of ASLE and the broader environmental humanities community, and/or scholarly and creative merits. <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Proposals may also be submitted for virtual panels. Any proposals for virtual panels must be clearly indicated as such at the time of submission. Please note again that we are NOT able to accept hybrid part-virtual panels.</span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">For traditional panels, paper jams, and roundtables where presenters DO have separate formal talk titles/abstracts, this submission requires two steps:</b></p><ol style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Panel chair/organizer should select the panel format and submit the panel abstract for session. Please include presentation titles and authors for all other panelists in the provided fields, so we can check them against submissions in step 2.</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Other panelists (including the panel organizer if they are also presenting) must also submit their individual abstracts (300 words/2000 characters or less) as a separate proposal. Please have them select “Individual Abstract that is part of a Pre-Formed Panel” and include the panel session title in the appropriate field. Full panel sessions will be considered completed and ready for review once all panelists have submitted their abstracts as separate proposals.</li></ol><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">For roundtables where presenters DO NOT have a separate formal talk title/abstract</b>, and for <b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">discussion symposia</b>, step 2 is not required, but all discussants and their contact information must be listed in the “Co-speakers” section of the submission form.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Pre-formed panels are not guaranteed acceptance in the conference, unless they are submitted by affiliated organizations or ASLE interest groups. If we are unable to accept a panel, the proposals in that panel will receive full consideration as part of the individual abstracts review. </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">To encourage institutional diversity and exchange, all pre-formed panels must include participants from more than one institution and from more than one academic rank or sector. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Posting Your Panel Call<br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></strong><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">To facilitate more inclusion and interdisciplinarity in pre-formed panels, we encourage people with panel ideas to post a brief call of no more than 300 words to invite presenters to apply to your proposed panel theme. Please post your panel call </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><i style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;padding:0px">no later than October 10, 2024 </i></b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://www.asle.org/category/calls-for-papers/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">via this link</a>. We will post these calls on the ASLE conference website and advertise them in our publicity channels.</span></p><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal">BEFORE SUBMITTING, CHECK OUT THESE DETAILED GUIDELINES WITH STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ASLE-2025-Submission-Instructions.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE 2025 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</a></span></h4><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/portal/event/EVEHBVWXVKRHO/submission/CALUD7HKOXK272E/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">SUBMIT A PRE-FORMED PANEL PROPOSAL</em></b></a></span></h4><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS OR READINGS</b></h4><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Proposals may be submitted for individual paper presentations or readings, for a maximum of 15 minutes each. These presentations, if accepted, will be placed into panels. Potential presenters will be asked to indicate whether they would also be willing to participate in a roundtable (5-6 presenters per panel) or paper jam (7-8 presenters per panel) format, with shorter presentation times; willingness to participate in such formats will increase chances of acceptance. Individual proposals should contain abstracts of no more than 300 words/2000 characters, </span>and should include:</p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Working title for the presentation (you will be able to edit this later)</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Brief overview of the topic background</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Specification of content type (e.g. theoretical contribution, project description, pedagogical experience, presentation of artistic work, personal or institutional experience, etc.)</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Statement of content, including presentation’s main focus</li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Proposals may be submitted for virtual presentations, to be included in virtual online panels. Any proposals for virtual presentations must be clearly indicated as such at the time of submission. </span></p><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal">BEFORE SUBMITTING, CHECK OUT THESE DETAILED GUIDELINES WITH STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ASLE-2025-Submission-Instructions.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE 2025 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</a></span></h4><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/portal/event/EVEHBVWXVKRHO/submission/CALUD7HKOXK272E/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline">SUBMIT AN INDIVIDUAL PROPOSAL</span></em></b></a></h4><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS</b></h4><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">As we have in the past, we will hold a number of pre-conference workshops on important and emerging topics that reflect the diversity of our approaches and our membership: these workshops may or may not relate directly to the conference theme (although we encourage it), and will be held on the morning of Tuesday, July 8, prior to the start of general sessions in the afternoon. This year, we are calling for workshop proposals and will choose from the submissions received. We will offer between 6-8 in-person and 2-3 virtual workshops.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">A proposal to lead a Pre-Conference Workshop should be geared to an audience of fifteen participants, keep in mid a three-hour time frame, and include no more than two co-leaders. Proposals should include:</p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">an abstract of 300 words/2000 characters or less, describing the workshop content, goals, and structure, written for a broad, multidisciplinary audience; and</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">your (and your co-leader’s, if applicable) particular experiences and qualifications to lead the<br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)">workshop, including a brief bio.</li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">As workshop leaders’ names will appear on the program, we encourage (but do not require) accepted proposers to present in the workshop instead of giving a paper during the conference. If your workshop proposal is not accepted, there should be ample time to submit in a different proposal format prior to the deadline on January 3.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">Pre-Conference Workshop leaders are eligible for a registration waiver for the 2025 conference. <strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">To submit a proposal to lead a workshop, please apply by October 24, 2024.</strong></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Conference participants may register for one of the chosen workshops on a first come, first served basis during registration, for an additional $20 fee. There will be 15 spots available for each workshop. Depending on the specific workshop format, workshop participants will either do shared readings in advance of the workshop; share a short scholarly paper in advance; and/ or bring ideas and projects with them to the workshop. The names of all workshop participants will be listed in the conference program. Workshop participants may also present in another format at the conference, if they wish. </span></p><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal">BEFORE SUBMITTING, CHECK OUT THESE DETAILED GUIDELINES WITH STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ASLE-2025-Workshop-Submission-Instructions.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE 2025 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</a></span></h4><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/portal/event/EVEHBVWXVKRHO/submission/CAL0MYCD7XS80JC/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">SUBMIT A PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP PROPOSAL</strong></em></a></span></h4><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">DATES AND DEADLINES </b></h4><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">All proposals for pre-formed panels, individual presentations that are part of pre-formed panels, and individual presentations or readings must be submitted via Pheedloop by </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">11:59pm PST on January 3, 2025</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. Any proposals for presentations in pre-formed panels that are not accepted for the conference will automatically be considered as individual presentations. </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">All proposals for Pre-Conference Workshops must be submitted via Pheedloop by </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">11:59 pm PST on October 24, 2024</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. Proposers will be notified of acceptance status no later than <strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">November 24, 2024</strong>. Those whose workshops are not accepted are welcome to submit a proposal in another conference presentation format by the </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">January 3, 2025 </b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">deadline. </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">If you submitted a proposal but discover you can no longer attend the conference, please inform the organizer of your panel (if relevant) </span><i style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">and </span></i><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE of withdrawal by </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">January 30, 2025</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">, if possible. </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">We will evaluate all proposals carefully and notify people of whether their proposal has been accepted by </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">February 27, 2025</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. </span></li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">For questions about submitting, please contact us at</span> <a href="mailto:2025asleconf@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">2025asleconf@gmail.com</span></a><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. </span></p><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h3 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal">CONFERENCE LOCATION</h3><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">As environmental humanists, we recognize that in-person meetings such as the ASLE conference are largely made possible by fossil fuels and thereby contribute to climate change. Guided by the goals outlined in the </span><a href="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/ASLE-Strategic-Plan-2020-26.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">2020-2026 ASLE Strategic Plan</span></a><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">, we selected this conference site due to its relative proximity to the majority of ASLE members as well as its connectivity to interstate rail transit. </span>Additionally, College Park is located on the Green Line of the DC light rail metro system, and we encourage attendees to utilize it when possible. The stop is about a mile from campus. <a href="https://www.wmata.com/rider-guide/stations/college-park.cfm" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">https://www.wmata.com/rider-guide/stations/college-park.cfm#</a></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">The nearby area boasts several projects and landmarks of interest, including ECO City Farms, the Hyattsville Food Forests, the Rachel Carson House, and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. As per tradition, the conference will include field trips to such sites, as well as a local “cultural crawl.”   </p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">The <a href="https://umd.edu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">University of Maryland, College Park</a> is the state’s flagship university, located just outside Washington, D.C.  One of the nation’s preeminent public research universities with an enrollment nearly 41,000, UMD has a commitment to environmental and social values, such as the programs, projects, and events offered through the Office of Sustainability’s <a href="https://sustainability.umd.edu/about" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">SustainableUMD</a> network and the School of Public Policy’s <a href="https://dogood.umd.edu/research-impact-dgi" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Do Good Institute</a>.</p></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:left;min-height:1px;width:379.984375px"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 15px 20px;padding:0px;min-height:1px;text-align:center;line-height:1"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><img src="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/asle_conference_reception_pan_web.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="500" style="border: 0px rgb(243, 243, 243); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: auto; display: block;"></div></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 15px 20px;padding:0px;min-height:1px"><blockquote style="border-width:1px 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:url("");background-position:20px 24px;background-size:24px 20px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:20px 20px 0px 60px;quotes:none;font-style:italic"><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">I first attended and presented at ASLE at the 2009 conference in Victoria, BC.  At the time, I was a Master’s student and didn’t yet know whether I wanted to pursue studies in the field of environmental literature, or even a career in academia more broadly. After five days of amazing conference panels, intellectually stimulating conversations, and fun hiking adventures, I was certain that I had chosen the right field and the right profession.  Now, attending ASLE conferences truly feels like coming home. I would not be where I am today without ASLE, an organization that is welcoming of all perspectives, all methodologies, and scholars at all stages of their careers.</strong> – Stephen Siperstein (English Teacher, Choate Rosemary Hall)</p></blockquote></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 15px 20px;padding:0px;min-height:1px"><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">ASLE welcomes proposals to host both our biennial conferences and off-year affiliated symposia.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://asle.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Conference_BiennialGuide.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Biennial Conference Proposal Guidelines</a><a href="https://asle.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Conferences_BiennialGuide.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></a></strong>These guidelines are to assist potential hosts in formulating a complete and compelling proposal for our large biennial conference.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><a href="https://asle.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Conferences_OffYearGuide.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Off-Year ASLE Symposia Guidelines</strong></a><br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)">Details of how to submit a proposal for an ASLE seed grant or ASLE affiliation to assist with your own smaller symposium in non-conference years (even years).</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://asle.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Conferences_Sustainability.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Sustainability at Conferences</a><br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></strong>ASLE is committed to making our conferences as sustainable as possible. Please consult this document if you are considering proposing a Biennial or Off-Year ASLE Conference.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1"><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, </i></font><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Distinguished Professor of </i><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Creative Writing</i></font></div><div><div><font size="1"><font face="georgia, serif">**She/her & </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Surname is Hedge Coke, no hyphen**</span></font></div></div><div><font size="1"><i style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">Look at This Blue </a></i></font></div><div><font size="1"><br></font></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i>     Weird Times, Be Kind</i></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr height="14px"><td align="right" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="-1" color="#777"><b></b></font></td></tr></tbody></table><hr><div class="gmail-maincontent" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:13px"><tbody><tr><td><font size="+1"><b>ASLE Call for proposals</b></font><br></td></tr></tbody></table><hr style="font-size:13px"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="gmail-message" style="font-size:13px"><tbody><tr><td><font size="-1"><b>Allison Hedge Coke<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><<a href="mailto:allisonh@ucr.edu">allisonh@ucr.edu</a>></font></td><td align="right"><font size="-1">Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 5:08 PM</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding-bottom:4px"><font size="-1" class="gmail-recipient"><div>To: Dana Simmons <<a href="mailto:dana.simmons@ucr.edu">dana.simmons@ucr.edu</a>></div></font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table width="100%" cellpadding="12" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden"><font size="-1"><div dir="ltr">Hi Dana,<div><br></div><div>Forwarding ASLE Call for proposals</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none">https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;max-width:1140px"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 15px;padding:0px;float:right"><a href="https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/contact/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:6px 13px 10px;text-transform:uppercase;display:inline-block;font-weight:normal">CONTACT</a> <a href="https://www.asle.org/membership-account/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:6px 13px 10px;text-transform:uppercase;display:inline-block;font-weight:normal">MEMBER LOGIN</a> <a href="https://www.asle.org/join-our-community/donate/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background:repeat rgb(131,170,48);margin:0px;padding:6px 13px 10px;text-transform:uppercase;display:inline-block;font-weight:normal">DONATE</a></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-orig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round-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Reflecting on the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons during the 2016 Standing Rock protests, </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons notes that “[t]he conditions we breathe in are collective and unequally distributed. … The atmosphere is increasingly a sphere to be weaponized.” A few years later, this weaponization became clear as</span> <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">the unequally-experienced COVID-19 respiratory pandemic overlapped with protests over the chokehold murder of George Floyd at the hands of police—giving heartbreaking new relevance to the Black Lives Matter rallying cry, “I can’t breathe.” Meanwhile, deforestation and air pollution are again on the rise. The Amazon rainforest, for instance—dubbed the “lungs of the world” due to its ability to absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen—has come under intensified threats. Wildfires stoked by climate change fill the air with toxic smoke. And new research finds that unhoused people are disproportionately exposed to air pollution. Breath and air, as has become palpably obvious, are phenomena necessary for life, yet often overlooked and not equally available to all. As historian Achille Mbembe states, what humanity currently faces is “</span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">a matter of no less than reconstructing a habitable earth to give all of us the breath of life.</span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">” </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Fittingly, in our fields of ecocriticism, ecomedia studies, and environmental humanities, we find a nascent wave of work attending to the idea that air/atmospheres are at once specific to our individual bodies, unequally experienced, and shared by all biotic life across time and space. This work contributes to an emerging “respiratory humanities” and “atmospheric humanities” —the latter of which, as </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">the International Commission on Science and Literature and the International Commission on History of Meteorology recently declared in a joint</span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"> call for papers, considers </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">“the atmosphere’s agency as it becomes manifest as a medium, life-giver, carrier, nutrient source, threat and a concern in modern life, politics, and art.” </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Meanwhile, the prominent subfield of affect studies engages with more figurative conceptions of “atmosphere,” including mood and ambience. In sum, atmospheres become increasingly visible as sites of contestations and convergences where the intimacy of breath is bound up with wide-ranging environmental and cultural crises. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Of course, atmospheric thinking has a very long history. The idea of “bad air” as a disease vector is an ancient one, and it persisted into the 19th century in the miasma theory of disease transmission. In the 1800s, polymath Charles Babbage wrote of the air as a “one vast library” that serves as a repository of human and more-than-human history. Scientists Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin recently concurred, suggesting with their “Orbis Hypothesis” that the European colonization of the Americas left an atmospheric trace. And since the late 1970s, the ozone layer and greenhouse gasses have been major topics of scientific as well as public concern.</span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">We seek papers, creative works, and other forms of inquiry that engage with these concerns, broadly construed. Possible topics include but are not limited to: </span></p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">“Settler atmospherics” (Simmons) and Indigenous activism </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Climate and/as history; histories of weather </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Sensing air pollution; citizen science around air pollution</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">The emergence and role of the “respiratory humanities” or “atmospheric humanities” </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Relationship of the above to the “blue humanities,” “green ecocriticism,” and/or “energy humanities”; waves of ecocriticism</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Aesthetics of visibility/invisibility and air </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Representing air inequality in haptic, olfactory, or other non-visual media</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Unhoused populations and air inequality  </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Environmental racism and air inequality  </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Wildfires and smoke; prescribed burns and Indigenous fire knowledge as alternative technologies</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Respiratory pandemics and the media</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Rhetoric of anti-AAPI hate during COVID-19</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Masking and dis/ability rhetoric; long COVID and “crip time” (Alison Kafer)</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Air purification technology and the commodification of air (see Yangdon Li)</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">“Atmospheric rivers,” flooding, and representation  </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Representations of atmospheric layers (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere) </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Air travel and alternatives </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Space environmentalism: space debris, cosmic dust, extraterrestrial exploration</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Airwaves, radio waves, soundwaves—from podcasts to birdsong</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Affect studies and intangible/figurative atmospheres</span></li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">We also welcome work that engages in other ways with the larger concerns outlined above—including climate change, environmental health and justice, settler colonialism—and/or with the vision and mission of ASLE, which seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts. Our vision is an inclusive community whose members are committed to environmental research, education, literature, and art, as well as service, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability. See more here: <a href="https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/vision-history/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/vision-history/</a>.</span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Confirmed keynote speakers include: </span></p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://english.ucdavis.edu/people/hlhsu" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline">Hsuan Hsu</span></strong></a>, author of <em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">The Smell of Risk: Atmospheric Disparities and the Olfactory Arts</em>, and <em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Air Conditioning</em></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/11/16/perez-indigenous-poetry-book-award/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Craig Santos Perez</a></strong></span>, winner of the 2023 National Book Award for poetry</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-member/974-roane-j-t" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">JT Roane</a></strong></span>, author of <em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place in Philadelphia</em>, and co-leader of the Black Ecologies Lab at Rutgers</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://www.streetroots.org/users/kaia-sand" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Kaia Sand</a></strong></span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">, poet, activist, and Executive Director of <a href="https://www.streetroots.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Street Roots</a> (Portland, OR)</span></li></ul><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">CALL DETAILS </b></h4><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE welcomes proposals for the following presentation formats for our 2025 conference (described in more detail in the sections below): </span></p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">pre-formed panels of scholarly papers, creative readings, roundtables, or discussion symposia of between 4 and 8 presenters; </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">individual scholarly papers or creative readings, to be placed into panels;</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">pre-conference workshops</li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">While the vast majority of sessions will only be available to people attending the conference in person, there will also be fully virtual sessions and a virtual keynote to allow people who cannot attend in person an opportunity to participate (at a lower registration cost). <strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">These will be held on July 17-18 2025.</strong></span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">In-person plenary sessions will also be available to virtual participants, both as live streams and recorded, and a couple of virtual pre-conference workshops are planned. Other in-person conference sessions will not be available virtually, and we are not able to accommodate hybrid sessions at the conference. People who submit proposals to present at the conference in-person will therefore </span><i style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">not </span></i><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">be able to present at in-person sessions virtually. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Paper and Panel Submission Process </b></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">All presentation sessions will be 90 minutes long. We will accept proposals for the 2025 conference for both pre-formed panels and individual presentations, with no preference given to one type of proposal or the other. Both scholarly and creative submissions are welcome. ASLE encourages experimentation with alternative forms of presentation, discussion, and engagement, especially in pre-formed panels. We expect to receive more proposals than we can accommodate; therefore, not all proposals will be accepted. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Only one individual abstract submission is allowed per person</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. Participants can present only once during the conference as part of a panel; facilitating or participating in a pre-conference workshop or chairing a panel do not count towards this limit. If a pre-formed panel organizer wishes to submit two or more topically linked panels, that is allowed, but organizers may still only present on one panel.</span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">All presentation proposals must be submitted via the Pheedloop submission platform. Click on your submission format type below and fill out the required form. If this online submission requirement poses a significant difficulty, please contact us at </span><a href="mailto:2025asleconf@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">2025asleconf@gmail.com</span></a><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Please read below to find specific submission information for the various presentation formats, submission guides, and links to the submission forms. </span></p><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">PRE-FORMED PANELS</b></h4><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Proposals for pre-formed panels can be in several formats: </span></p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">traditional scholarly papers or creative readings, which must include a chair (who may also serve as a panelist) and four presentations of fifteen minutes each, followed by discussion time</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">discussion symposia (new in 2025), which must include four to six moderators who frame a topic and lead a discussion with the panel attendees</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">roundtables, which must include a chair (who may also serve as a panelist) and five to six panelists who speak for no more than 10 minutes each, followed by discussion time</span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">paper jams, which must include a chair (who may also serve as a panelist) and seven or eight panelists who speak for no more than 7-8 minutes each, followed by discussion time</span></li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">We especially encourage groups engaged in artistic, pedagogical, activist, or other types of collaborative work to present the results of those efforts in one of the formats above. </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Alternative formats for pre-formed panels are also encouraged, such as visual exhibitions, interactive creative engagements, debates, etc. Please contact ASLE Conference Chair Beatriz Rivera Barnes at </span><a href="mailto:2025asleconf@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">2025asleconf@gmail.com</span></a><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">.</span> <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">before proposing such alternative formats. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">A proposal for a full panel session should be a summary abstract which gives a brief description of the session in 300 words (2000 characters) or less. This might include applicability to the conference theme, how it connects to the mission and goals of ASLE and the broader environmental humanities community, and/or scholarly and creative merits. <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Proposals may also be submitted for virtual panels. Any proposals for virtual panels must be clearly indicated as such at the time of submission. Please note again that we are NOT able to accept hybrid part-virtual panels.</span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">For traditional panels, paper jams, and roundtables where presenters DO have separate formal talk titles/abstracts, this submission requires two steps:</b></p><ol style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Panel chair/organizer should select the panel format and submit the panel abstract for session. Please include presentation titles and authors for all other panelists in the provided fields, so we can check them against submissions in step 2.</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Other panelists (including the panel organizer if they are also presenting) must also submit their individual abstracts (300 words/2000 characters or less) as a separate proposal. Please have them select “Individual Abstract that is part of a Pre-Formed Panel” and include the panel session title in the appropriate field. Full panel sessions will be considered completed and ready for review once all panelists have submitted their abstracts as separate proposals.</li></ol><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">For roundtables where presenters DO NOT have a separate formal talk title/abstract</b>, and for <b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">discussion symposia</b>, step 2 is not required, but all discussants and their contact information must be listed in the “Co-speakers” section of the submission form.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Pre-formed panels are not guaranteed acceptance in the conference, unless they are submitted by affiliated organizations or ASLE interest groups. If we are unable to accept a panel, the proposals in that panel will receive full consideration as part of the individual abstracts review. </span><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">To encourage institutional diversity and exchange, all pre-formed panels must include participants from more than one institution and from more than one academic rank or sector. </span></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Posting Your Panel Call<br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></strong><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">To facilitate more inclusion and interdisciplinarity in pre-formed panels, we encourage people with panel ideas to post a brief call of no more than 300 words to invite presenters to apply to your proposed panel theme. Please post your panel call </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><i style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;padding:0px">no later than October 10, 2024 </i></b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://www.asle.org/category/calls-for-papers/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">via this link</a>. We will post these calls on the ASLE conference website and advertise them in our publicity channels.</span></p><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal">BEFORE SUBMITTING, CHECK OUT THESE DETAILED GUIDELINES WITH STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ASLE-2025-Submission-Instructions.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE 2025 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</a></span></h4><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/portal/event/EVEHBVWXVKRHO/submission/CALUD7HKOXK272E/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">SUBMIT A PRE-FORMED PANEL PROPOSAL</em></b></a></span></h4><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS OR READINGS</b></h4><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Proposals may be submitted for individual paper presentations or readings, for a maximum of 15 minutes each. These presentations, if accepted, will be placed into panels. Potential presenters will be asked to indicate whether they would also be willing to participate in a roundtable (5-6 presenters per panel) or paper jam (7-8 presenters per panel) format, with shorter presentation times; willingness to participate in such formats will increase chances of acceptance. Individual proposals should contain abstracts of no more than 300 words/2000 characters, </span>and should include:</p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Working title for the presentation (you will be able to edit this later)</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Brief overview of the topic background</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Specification of content type (e.g. theoretical contribution, project description, pedagogical experience, presentation of artistic work, personal or institutional experience, etc.)</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Statement of content, including presentation’s main focus</li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Proposals may be submitted for virtual presentations, to be included in virtual online panels. Any proposals for virtual presentations must be clearly indicated as such at the time of submission. </span></p><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal">BEFORE SUBMITTING, CHECK OUT THESE DETAILED GUIDELINES WITH STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ASLE-2025-Submission-Instructions.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE 2025 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</a></span></h4><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/portal/event/EVEHBVWXVKRHO/submission/CALUD7HKOXK272E/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline">SUBMIT AN INDIVIDUAL PROPOSAL</span></em></b></a></h4><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS</b></h4><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">As we have in the past, we will hold a number of pre-conference workshops on important and emerging topics that reflect the diversity of our approaches and our membership: these workshops may or may not relate directly to the conference theme (although we encourage it), and will be held on the morning of Tuesday, July 8, prior to the start of general sessions in the afternoon. This year, we are calling for workshop proposals and will choose from the submissions received. We will offer between 6-8 in-person and 2-3 virtual workshops.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">A proposal to lead a Pre-Conference Workshop should be geared to an audience of fifteen participants, keep in mid a three-hour time frame, and include no more than two co-leaders. Proposals should include:</p><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">an abstract of 300 words/2000 characters or less, describing the workshop content, goals, and structure, written for a broad, multidisciplinary audience; and</li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">your (and your co-leader’s, if applicable) particular experiences and qualifications to lead the<br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)">workshop, including a brief bio.</li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">As workshop leaders’ names will appear on the program, we encourage (but do not require) accepted proposers to present in the workshop instead of giving a paper during the conference. If your workshop proposal is not accepted, there should be ample time to submit in a different proposal format prior to the deadline on January 3.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">Pre-Conference Workshop leaders are eligible for a registration waiver for the 2025 conference. <strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">To submit a proposal to lead a workshop, please apply by October 24, 2024.</strong></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Conference participants may register for one of the chosen workshops on a first come, first served basis during registration, for an additional $20 fee. There will be 15 spots available for each workshop. Depending on the specific workshop format, workshop participants will either do shared readings in advance of the workshop; share a short scholarly paper in advance; and/ or bring ideas and projects with them to the workshop. The names of all workshop participants will be listed in the conference program. Workshop participants may also present in another format at the conference, if they wish. </span></p><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal">BEFORE SUBMITTING, CHECK OUT THESE DETAILED GUIDELINES WITH STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: <span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ASLE-2025-Workshop-Submission-Instructions.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE 2025 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</a></span></h4><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/portal/event/EVEHBVWXVKRHO/submission/CAL0MYCD7XS80JC/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><em style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">SUBMIT A PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP PROPOSAL</strong></em></a></span></h4><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h4 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal"><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">DATES AND DEADLINES </b></h4><ul style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:outside"><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">All proposals for pre-formed panels, individual presentations that are part of pre-formed panels, and individual presentations or readings must be submitted via Pheedloop by </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">11:59pm PST on January 3, 2025</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. Any proposals for presentations in pre-formed panels that are not accepted for the conference will automatically be considered as individual presentations. </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">All proposals for Pre-Conference Workshops must be submitted via Pheedloop by </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">11:59 pm PST on October 24, 2024</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. Proposers will be notified of acceptance status no later than <strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">November 24, 2024</strong>. Those whose workshops are not accepted are welcome to submit a proposal in another conference presentation format by the </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">January 3, 2025 </b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">deadline. </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">If you submitted a proposal but discover you can no longer attend the conference, please inform the organizer of your panel (if relevant) </span><i style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">and </span></i><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">ASLE of withdrawal by </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">January 30, 2025</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">, if possible. </span></li><li style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">We will evaluate all proposals carefully and notify people of whether their proposal has been accepted by </span><b style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">February 27, 2025</b><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. </span></li></ul><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">For questions about submitting, please contact us at</span> <a href="mailto:2025asleconf@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">2025asleconf@gmail.com</span></a><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">. </span></p><hr style="height:1px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);margin:1em 0px;padding:0px"><h3 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-weight:normal">CONFERENCE LOCATION</h3><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">As environmental humanists, we recognize that in-person meetings such as the ASLE conference are largely made possible by fossil fuels and thereby contribute to climate change. Guided by the goals outlined in the </span><a href="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/ASLE-Strategic-Plan-2020-26.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">2020-2026 ASLE Strategic Plan</span></a><span style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">, we selected this conference site due to its relative proximity to the majority of ASLE members as well as its connectivity to interstate rail transit. </span>Additionally, College Park is located on the Green Line of the DC light rail metro system, and we encourage attendees to utilize it when possible. The stop is about a mile from campus. <a href="https://www.wmata.com/rider-guide/stations/college-park.cfm" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">https://www.wmata.com/rider-guide/stations/college-park.cfm#</a></p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">The nearby area boasts several projects and landmarks of interest, including ECO City Farms, the Hyattsville Food Forests, the Rachel Carson House, and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. As per tradition, the conference will include field trips to such sites, as well as a local “cultural crawl.”   </p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">The <a href="https://umd.edu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">University of Maryland, College Park</a> is the state’s flagship university, located just outside Washington, D.C.  One of the nation’s preeminent public research universities with an enrollment nearly 41,000, UMD has a commitment to environmental and social values, such as the programs, projects, and events offered through the Office of Sustainability’s <a href="https://sustainability.umd.edu/about" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">SustainableUMD</a> network and the School of Public Policy’s <a href="https://dogood.umd.edu/research-impact-dgi" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Do Good Institute</a>.</p></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;float:left;min-height:1px;width:379.984375px"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 15px 20px;padding:0px;min-height:1px;text-align:center;line-height:1"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><img src="https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/asle_conference_reception_pan_web.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="500" style="border: 0px rgb(243, 243, 243); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: auto; display: block;"></div></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 15px 20px;padding:0px;min-height:1px"><blockquote style="border-width:1px 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:url("");background-position:20px 24px;background-size:24px 20px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:20px 20px 0px 60px;quotes:none;font-style:italic"><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">I first attended and presented at ASLE at the 2009 conference in Victoria, BC.  At the time, I was a Master’s student and didn’t yet know whether I wanted to pursue studies in the field of environmental literature, or even a career in academia more broadly. After five days of amazing conference panels, intellectually stimulating conversations, and fun hiking adventures, I was certain that I had chosen the right field and the right profession.  Now, attending ASLE conferences truly feels like coming home. I would not be where I am today without ASLE, an organization that is welcoming of all perspectives, all methodologies, and scholars at all stages of their careers.</strong> – Stephen Siperstein (English Teacher, Choate Rosemary Hall)</p></blockquote></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 15px 20px;padding:0px;min-height:1px"><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px">ASLE welcomes proposals to host both our biennial conferences and off-year affiliated symposia.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://asle.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Conference_BiennialGuide.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Biennial Conference Proposal Guidelines</a><a href="https://asle.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Conferences_BiennialGuide.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></a></strong>These guidelines are to assist potential hosts in formulating a complete and compelling proposal for our large biennial conference.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><a href="https://asle.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Conferences_OffYearGuide.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Off-Year ASLE Symposia Guidelines</strong></a><br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)">Details of how to submit a proposal for an ASLE seed grant or ASLE affiliation to assist with your own smaller symposium in non-conference years (even years).</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://asle.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Conferences_Sustainability.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Sustainability at Conferences</a><br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)"></strong>ASLE is committed to making our conferences as sustainable as possible. Please consult this document if you are considering proposing a Biennial or Off-Year ASLE Conference.</p><p style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://asle.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/Access-Guidelines-for-ASLE-Biennial-Conferences.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(231,71,0);text-decoration:none;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px">Accessibility at Conferences</a></strong><br style="border-color:rgb(243,243,243)">ASLE is committed to making our conferences as accessible as possible. Please consult this document if you are considering proposing a Biennial or Off-Year ASLE Conference.</p></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;line-height:0;height:0px;zoom:1"></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:url("https://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/UMarylandSlider.png");background-position:center center;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:40px 0px;overflow:hidden"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:0px 0px 3em;max-width:1140px"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1"><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px auto 35px;padding:0px;min-height:1px;max-width:722px;text-align:center"><h2 style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:37px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;line-height:1.2em;font-weight:400;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(231,71,0)"></h2><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(50,50,50)"></div></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;line-height:0;height:0px;zoom:1"></div></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;line-height:0;height:0px;zoom:1"></div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;border:0px rgb(243,243,243);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;line-height:0;height:0px;zoom:1"></div></div><div style="border:0px rgb(54,54,54);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;margin:0px auto;padding:65px 0px 40px;max-width:1140px"><div id="m_6165781482437887575m_-325030556197394024gmail-footer-widget-1" style="border:0px rgb(54,54,54);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;p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