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The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment has released a CfP for its upcoming conference on 'Territory: Terra, Terroir, Terror,' which will be held from 22-24 June 2027 at the University of Maryland. The CfP builds on the IPCC's 2022 identification of colonialism as a driver of climate change, tying questions of land and landscape to affects of terror. As such, it's particularly encouraging proposals regarding genres such as the Gothic, the Dark Sublime,

The Romantic Studies Association of Australasia has released a CfP for its upcoming conference on 'Romanticism and Property,' to be held at the Australian National University in Canberra from 18-20 November 2027. While the conference theme encompasses metaphorical understandings of property and the important developments in intellectual property through the Romantic period, property in land represents an essential link to ecology and ecocritical approaches to Romanticism. The

The CfP has been released for the 14th bienniel European Society for Environmental History conference will be held in Salzburg, Austria from 7-10 September, 2027. The conference, in reaction to the funding cuts which have increasingly siloed research in the humanities within narrow disciplinary boundaries, is encouraging papers, panels, book presentations, posters, and roundtables from a breadth of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, as well as submissions which ta

Romance, Revolution and Reform have released a CfP for an upcoming conference entitled 'Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century,' to be held 15 January 2027. The CfP focuses on the nineteenth century as the 'birth of the Anthropocene,' and the period's 'networks between humans and the “more than human ”.' RRR encourages interdisciplinary submissions, and aims to encourage PGR and ECR submissions: it provided an incredibly welcoming and supportive venue for Cal's first confe

Yale University has announced a two-day hybrid symposium, entitled 'Romantic Literature and Ecotheology: Enlarging the Circle of Ecological Compassion. It will take place 4-5 February 2027, presenting ecologically-oriented work at the intersection of Romantic Studies and Theology from major figures in ecocriticism including Kate Rigby and Timothy Morton. The symposium will be free to attend, and available online. One can find more details and register on the event's website.

Please find linked here a call for papers which will interest anyone working on the environmental, social, economic, or labour history of the eighteenth century. The conference, held as part of the Landau-Paris Symposia on the Eighteenth Century series, is entitled 'Industry and Idleness: Labour, Luxury and the British Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century.' It will be held at the Universität Duisburg-Essen in Essen, Germany, from the 2 to 4 April 2027. The organisers are acc

We are delighted to point our readers towards the publication of Tara Lee's William Blake and Romantic Biology, an incredibly exciting new work which places the poetry of the long eighteenth-century in relation to the natural sciences. From the CUP description: “Blake’s unique pronouncements on spirituality and embodiment, revolutionary politics, sexuality, and genius, as well as on textual and artistic reproduction, were formulated in opposition to the pre-Darwinian theories

Please find linked here a call for papers (in German and English) which will interest anyone working on late eighteenth-century or Romantic ecologies, particularly in relation to time. Entitled 'Sympoiesis. Temporal Ecologies in Art and Nature Around 1800' (»Sympoiesis. Zeit-Ökologien in Kunst und Natur um 1800«), the conference will be held from September 30 to October 2 this year at the Erbacher Hof in Mainz, Germany. The conference is accepting abstracts of up to 300 words

Please find linked here a call for sample responses for a one-day workshop entitled 'Yuck?: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Nonhuman Life,' organised by the Northern Environmental History Network and held at the University of York. The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2026, and one can follow this link for the full details.

Please find linked here a call for papers which will be of interest to anyone working on eighteenth century or Romantic ecologies. The conference, entitled 'Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850,' will be held at the University of Manchester from 25–26 June, 2026, with keynotes from Jeremy Davies (Leeds) and Stephanie O'Rourke (St. Andrews). The conference is accepting abstracts up to 30 January 2026. The full call for papers can be found here .