June 2 - 4, 2006

UPDATE: We would like to announce that CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PRESS is interested in publishing the conference proceedings of the 2006 ASLE Summer Symposium! The volume would be published within a year of the conference, and all contributing presenters would receive a complimentary copy. You can see their website at
http://www.cambridgescholarspress.com/. There are still slots open for presenters, so be sure to consider this great opportunity!

This year's Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Off-Year Symposium will be held at the University of Maine at Farmington, a small public liberal arts college nestled in the foothills of Western Maine. The topic for this year's symposium is "Maine's Place in the Environmental Imagination," and in addition to a conference inviting both academic and creative presentations, the symposium will also include a keynote speaker — Kent Ryden of the University of Southern Maine — a panel presentation, a workshop, and excursions to both Tumbledown Mountain and Webb Lake.

Please review our website and consider presenting at, or just attending, the symposium this June!

 

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Call for Presentations

"Maine's Place in the Environmental Imagination"

The 2006 ASLE Off-Year Symposium invites presentations on the ways in which Maine has figured in the Environmental Imagination of North America; how Maine has been a storehouse of transcendental virtue and authenticity for Massachusetts, southern New England, and the rest of the nation; and how  Maine's "unspoiled" image was reconciled with the reality of clear-cutting and river pollution. Creative presentations are welcome.

Conference Topics to include (but not limited to):

ï Thoreau and Maine

ï Maine and the Gothic

ï Maine as Myth, Symbol, Idea

ï Coast vs. Mountains: The Two Maines

ï Maine Logging / Maine Wilderness

ï Poverty and Wilderness

 

SUBMIT PROPOSAL

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Contact Information

 

Telephone: (207) 778-7205

 

FAX: (207) 778-7452

 

Postal address:

 

            Michael Burke

                       11 South Street

University of Maine at Farmington

                    Farmington, ME 04938

 

Electronic mail:

 

mdburke@maine.edu