ALECC
Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.
Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.
May 20, 2009
The Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada / Association pour la littérature, l'environnement et la culture au Canada (ALECC) is an organization for the creation, appreciation, discussion, analysis, and dissemination of knowledge about the work of nature writers, environmental writers and journalists, eco-artists of all disciplines, ecocritics, and ecotheorists in Canada. Collectively we are interested in artistic, critical and cultural studies work on activism, animals, ecology, the environment, environmental justice, geography, land, landscape, mountain literature and culture, nature and nature writing, natural history writing, plants, region, regionalism, the rural, sense of place, transborder environmental issues, wilderness and wilder places, and much more. To this end we maintain a vibrant listserv (which is free to join), and twice annually edit and publish the electronic publication called The Goose. For more information about the history and administration of ALECC please stop by our About ALECC page.
Apr. 18, 2012
Our latest issue of The Goose...
For previous issues of The Goose please continue to The Goose's page.
Mar 12, 2012
This two-day multidisciplinary conference, to be held on 20-21 July at Trinity College, Dublin will explore the role of green man and wild man motifs in twentieth and twenty-first century children's culture. For details visit http://greenmanconference.wordpress.com.
The ALECC 2012 conference website is now live! The site contains all of the details about ALECC's upcoming conference to be held from August 7-12, 2012 in Kelowna and Penticton, British Columbia.
ALECC has announced its first 100 Mile Verses regional reading event. See the News page for details.
Mount Royal University is accepting proposals for their 2012 conference. See the News page for details.
ALECC is accepting panel, paper, and presentation proposals for our 2012 conference. See the News page for details.
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) is accepting paper proposals for their 2012 off-year symposium. See the News page for details.
Thanks to all who voted in our recent election! It gives the executive confidence when we know that the members are engaging in the business of governance, and personally I was quite pleased with the level of turnout.
More importantly, though, I'm proud to announce the names of the two new members-at-large, as well as the incoming vice-president.
As you know, Keri Cronin was acclaimed at vice-president for 2011; this means she'll be president in 2012, and past president in 2013. Keri is a historian of visual culture at Brock University, as well as editor of the Brock Review, and her brand new book is entitled Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper (UBC Press, Dec. 2010).
The two new members-at-large are Nancy Holmes and Rhona McAdam. Nancy teaches in the Department of Creative Studies at UBC-Okanagan; 2009 saw the publication of her important anthology Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfrid Laurier UP), and she is the co-editor (with Sharon Thesen) of Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment. Rhona is a regularly published poet living in Victoria, BC, who is very involved with food security and the Slow Food movement (holding a Master's degree from Slow Food's University of Gastronomic Sciences, in Italy). This fall she has been teaching in St. Lawrence College's certificate program in Sustainable Local Foods.
Please join me in welcoming all three of them to the executive council. I look forward to working with all three of them as of January in what will then be my somewhat diminished role as Past President.
Best regards, Richard Pickard, President