The inaugural Eco-humanities Symposium at Penryn Campus, University of Exeter will take place 21-22 March 2025.

The theme of the symposium is 'The Stories We Tell Ourselves - Reimagining Ecologies'.

The two-day event will feature multidisciplinary research panels, creative practice workshops, networking opportunities and sharing sessions. It will comprise panels of international academics, authors and students. Professor Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia), one of the best-known figures in environmental criticism worldwide,
will deliver the keynote speech.

Hosted at Penryn Campus, a world-leading academic and research facility underpinned by a core interest in environment and sustainability, partners include the Environmental Sustainability Institute and the Centre for Ecology and Conservation. The campus is set in 100 acres of countryside close to the waterside town of Falmouth, with beautiful views over the Fal estuary.

There is an urgent need to address how we perceive and imagine our relationships, our interactions, with wider geological and biological systems as well as all living beings. A core part of this imagining is the stories we tell.

As we face multiple human-caused ecological crises, this symposium invites proposals for critical and creative responses which address the need to reimagine our story ecology. We are seeking critical and creative engagement of how our stories impact our interactions and perceptions of nature and non-human life.

We welcome abstract proposals across disciplines.

Submission
Please email an abstract (maximum length of 300 words) to tm740@exeter.ac.uk before mid-day (GMT) on 30th January 2025.