As part of #EarthDay2024 , read Gisela Heffes' chapter on #toxicity from the Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics and many other free-access essays here: cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/EarthDay2024 De Gruyter Literary Studies Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

Endless horror. Ceasefire now

Join us online on 9 May (17:30 BST) to discuss cultural representations of paid domestic workers in Latin America -- sign up here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/paid-ca… ILCS CLACS University of Texas Press CAP Academic Books

I won’t be able to present at #ISA2024 because my US visa appt is in 2026. How many academics from the global south are forced to wait, prevented from accessing these spaces? Immobility helps define those who speak their voices in academia and those whose voices are spoken for.

Starvation in Gaza is a war crime. bbc.com/news/world-mid…

Into second printing, both at Thames & Hudson and Princeton UP!

Love that first item on the news after the world’s first exceeding of 1.5 degrees global warming for a whole year is: ‘Labour will not commit 28 billion pounds to green investment’

I’m on my way! Looking forward to it

‘How Argentina’s protesters are responding to a new president who wants to end environmental protections and sell off natural resources’ theconversation.com/how-argentinas… via The Conversation

Bodies of Water is out in September! Huge thanks to the brilliant Rebecca Colesworthy and her team SUNY Press. Pre-orders coming soon… 🌊🏊‍♂️🎬

*This event has been postponed due to illness* Please pass on the word to anyone who planned to attend.

For the 3rd international conference organized by the Environmental Humanities Center, Cappadocia University, is inviting scholars to discuss the branches and directions of ecocriticism, including recent theories, emerging topics, and new challenges.

ehconference.kapadokya.edu.tr/call-for-paper…

It arrived! 🤩 Available for pre-order with University of Texas Press and out in January: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327708/

Interesting piece about Kissinger’s legacy in Latin America: “Latin America remembers Kissinger’s ‘profound moral wretchedness’” theguardian.com/us-news/2023/n…

Thinking from Amazonia: In our latest Think Pieces issue, Emily Baker (she/her) reads Lévi-Strauss’ Tristes Tropiques (1955) as an **Amazonian** text, shaped by resistive and cooperative human-nonhuman interactions 🌴🛶
thinkpieces-review.co.uk/2023/11/27/the…

Con la emoción del momento puse un link que no abre😅Aquí está el link correcto: muchas gracias por leer y compartir liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.38…

There’s nothing like spending the morning catching up on friends’ new work! Brilliantly clever stuff from Leila M and Ricki O'Rawe. 10/10. Highly recommended.🤩

Great visit today to the excellent Museum of the Home in Hackney with students on the UCL SELCS/CMII BA CompLit currently looking at memory, literature & globalisation with Emily Baker (she/her) & me.