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EcoCast: Environmental Conversations On Creative Art, Scholarship, and Teaching. The official podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Each episode features interviews with guests sharing their scholarship, creative work, or teaching.
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![The Aesthetics of Asceticism: Thoreau, Religion, and Social Justice with Alda Bathrop-Lewis](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 01, 2022
Sunday May 01, 2022
After a brief hiatus, we’re happy to be back with a new episode! This month’s guest is Alda Bathrop-Lewis, research fellow at Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, and author of 2021 book Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism. We discuss what links aesthetics to asceticism, and challenge the popular image of Thoreau as a solo hero in the woods, instead recognizing his deep sense of community and inheritance. Due to the tricky nature of coordinating three distant time zones, Brandon was unable to join the conversation this month.
For more on Alda:
Twitter: @iamalda
Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/thoreaus-religion/F3EE962BE32E911D768AD4FC50DE7793#fndtn-information
ASLE EcoCast:
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
- Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
- Jemma Deer: @Geowrites
- Brandon Galm: @BeGalm
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Episode recorded April 23, 2022.
![ASLE Spotlight Series 5: Public Engagement and Performance](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Monday Apr 11, 2022
ASLE Spotlight Series 5: Public Engagement and Performance
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
This special episode features the audio recording from ASLE's Spotlight Series first 2022 episode, Public Engagement and Performance, recorded on March 18, 2022.
Co-hosts: Joshua Calhoun and Brandon Galm
Panelists: Janisse Ray, Odile Cisneros, Petra Kuppers, and Spencer Robbins
For more information on ASLE, including a look at upcoming virtual events, visit: https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-news/
![Weaving the World: Poetry and Conversation with Heather Swan](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Weaving the World: Poetry and Conversation with Heather Swan
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
It’s been a while since we’ve had some poetry on EcoCast, so… enjoy some poetry on EcoCast! We’re joined by Heather Swan, poet and lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Heather shares some poems from her collection A Kinship with Ash, and we discuss her non-fiction books, Where Honeybees Thrive and the forthcoming Where the Grass Still Sings. We talk about the wonder and grief inspired by witnessing the natural world and the harms done to it by humans, and think about the power of writing and art as means to “knit yourself back into the world”, as one of Heather’s poems invites us to do.
For more on Heather:
Website: https://www.heatherswan.net/
Twitter: @beegood2bees
A Kinship with Ash: https://www.terrapinbooks.com/store/p33/A_Kinship_with_Ash.html
Where Honeybees Thrive: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07741-3.html
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
- Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
- Jemma Deer: @Geowrites
- Brandon Galm: @BeGalm
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Episode recorded January 22, 2022.
![ASLE Spotlight Series 4: Identity and Place](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jan 14, 2022
ASLE Spotlight Series 4: Identity and Place
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
This special episode features the audio recording from ASLE's Spotlight Series's fourth episode, Identity and Place, recorded on June 11, 2021.
Co-hosts: Laura Barbas-Rhoden and Gisela Heffes
Panelists: Scott Edward Anderson, Victoria Saramago, Charles Maurice Pigott, Lucien Darjeun Meadows.
For more information on ASLE, including a look at upcoming virtual events, visit: https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-news/
![On the Shoulders of Giants: Important Voices of Environmental Humanities--Joni Adamson](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Monday Jan 03, 2022
We are very thrilled to share this month’s episode with everyone. Our guest hopefully needs no introduction for many of you: we’re joined by Joni Adamson, Professor of English and Environmental Humanities, and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University. Joni’s work in ecocriticism and the environmental humanities stretches back to the field’s early days. We discuss her history, some of her recent work, as well as what she has in the pipeline for the future.
Humanities for the Environment, North American Observatory information: https://hfe-observatories.org/observatories/north-american-observatory
For more on Joni:
- Twitter: @JoniAdamson
- https://joniadamson.com/
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
- Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
- Jemma Deer: @Geowrites
- Brandon Galm: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded October 22, 2021.
![It’s the End of World as We Know It (and the Hero Survives): Robert Geal and the Psychoanalysis of Disaster Cinema](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
In what wraps up our short run of film-centered episodes, we’re joined by Robert Geal, lecturer at University of Wolverhampton, UK to discuss his recent book Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse. We discuss the role that disaster cinema has on our psychological relationship to the environment, environmental disaster, and society’s (in)action towards climate change.
Robert’s Book: https://www.routledge.com/Ecological-Film-Theory-and-Psychoanalysis-Surviving-the-Environmental-Apocalypse/Geal/p/book/9780367373412
For more on Robert:
- Twitter: @RobertGeal
- https://wwwwolverhampton.academia.edu/RobertGeal
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
- Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
- Jemma Deer: @Geowrites
- Brandon Galm: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded October 16, 2021.
![Nature Creeps Back: Creature Features and the Environment with Christy Tidwell & Bridgitte Barclay](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
What’s scarier than climate change? Not much, but this month’s guests--Bridgitte Barclay, Associate Professor at Aurora University, and Christy Tidwell, Associate Professor at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology--join us to talk about the sub-genre of horror films known as creature features, and how these films can change how we think about environmental concerns.
For more on Christy and Bridgitte:
- Christy:
- https://christymtidwell.wordpress.com/
- Twitter: @christymtidwell
- Bridgitte:
- https://bridgitteabarclay.wixsite.com/bridgittebarclay
- Twitter: @bridgebarclay
- Special Issue of Science Fiction Film and Television:
Creatures in the Classroom CFP: https://www.asle.org/calls-for-contributions/cfp-creatures-in-the-classroom-teaching-environmental-creature-features/ (Proposals due by January 18, 2022.)
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
- Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
- Jemma Deer: @Geowrites
- Brandon Galm: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded October 9, 2021.
![Mapping Stories: Lowell Wyse and Ecospatiality](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Mapping Stories: Lowell Wyse and Ecospatiality
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
This month we’re joined by Lowell Wyse, author of the recent book Ecospatiality: A Place-Based Approach to American Literature. This episode is all about exploring spatiality in literature, specifically how authors map their work and how readers experience those spaces when navigating through the texts.
William Cronon’s “The Trouble with Wilderness”: https://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trouble_with_Wilderness_Main.html
For more on Lowell:
- Twitter: @lowelldw
- Tacoma Tree Foundation: https://www.tacomatreefoundation.org/
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
- Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
- Jemma: @Geowrites
- Brandon: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded September 1, 2021.
![Plants as Objects of Desire: A Conversation with Jared Margulies and Gina Stamm](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
Plants as Objects of Desire: A Conversation with Jared Margulies and Gina Stamm
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
In this month’s episode, we sit down with Jared Margulies and Gina Stamm to talk about their collaborative research into the wild and wonderful world of rare plant traders and collectors, and its intersection with psychoanalytic literary analysis and environmental humanities. Both Jared and Gina work at the University of Alabama: Jared is an Assistant Professor of Political Ecology, and Gina is an Assistant Professor of French.
- Gina’s most recent publication can be found here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/800870/summary
- For more on Jared, find him on Twitter: @jaredmargulies or at his website: jaredmargulies.com.
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
- Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
- Jemma: @Geowrites
- Brandon: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded April 11, 2021.
![“Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?”: Speculative Fiction in the Anthropocene with Marc DiPaolo](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8926974/EcoCast_Logo_99ms0_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
This month, we’re happy to share our conversation with Marc DiPaolo, Associate Professor of English at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, to discuss his most recent non-fiction book Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones. In this episode, we talk about the role that fantasy plays in environmental discourse--both within fantasy literature and in the surrounding fandom.
For more on Marc, including links to purchase his books:
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
Jemma: @Geowrites
Brandon: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded January 7, 2021.