5th ASLE/ASEAN Ecocritical Conference
Posthuman Southeast Asia
23-25 November 2023
Organized by
School of Liberal Arts
Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand
and
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment in ASEAN
(ASLE/ASEAN)
As human actions continue to undermine the sustainability of Earth’s ecosystems and the stability of the planet as a whole, posthumanism seeks to overcome the legacies of humanism by exploring from a non-anthropocentric perspective the ongoing entanglements of humans and nonhumans. A variety of approaches to the human, the nonhuman, the inhuman, and the posthuman have been at the center of recent work in ecocriticism and across the environmental humanities. Many scholars view posthumanism as a paradigmatic change that is not only reconfiguring academic knowledge about naturecultures, but also giving rise to new and unexpected ways of being-together in a more-than-human world.
Ecocritics and other scholars interested in Southeast Asia are also actively engaged in posthumanist inquiries. After all, this is a region where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the indigeneous and ancient traditions of animism to the variegated and blooming creativity of contemporary literature, art, music, drama, film, and other media.
In this international conference, we want to explore and discuss all these naturalcultural entanglements, the various ways in which we can speak of a posthuman Southeast Asia. But we also hope to provide a forum where scholars, researchers, students, writers, artists, and activists based or working on Southeast Asia may contribute to the global conversation on the posthumanities.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline | 31 August 2023 |
Registration Deadline | 15 October 2023 |
Publication of Conference Program | 1 November 2023 |
Conference | 23-25 November 2023 |
Venue
The conference will take place at Mae Fah Luang University, in Chiang Rai, north of Thailand.
Website
Please check the most up to date information for this upcoming event on the conference website: https://asleasean.mfu.ac.th/