From July 26- August 6, the Association for the Study of Language and the Environment (ASLE.org) convened its biannual international conference, titled EMERGENCE(Y). On August 4, Leslie Carol Roberts and Christopher Falliers, founders of the ECOPOESIS Project with Adam Marcus, presented on the panel “The Art(s) of Environmental Change,” alongside John Yunker, Ashland Press; Michael Hewson, CQUniversity; and the independent artists Sarah Crooks, and Beth Shepherd. In their paper, “How We Hear Now: Spatial Practice and the Materiality of Ecological Stories,” Roberts and Falliers discussed the concept and creation of How We Hear Now, the collective audio project begun in response to the human quieting of the world as the pandemic descended in 2020 and lockdown ensued.
A complete list of conference abstracts and contributors are available here. ASLE was founded to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and the arts, supporting research, education, literature, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability.