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Organizer:  The Postgraduate Forum of the Postgraduate and Research Department of English Mar Thoma College, Tiruvalla 

About the Seminar 

• When: 24 October 2025
• Call for Papers
• Registration Fee Needed 
• Mode of Participation: Offline 

The seminar invites papers that explore the human–nature relationship as represented in literature, art, film, performance, and media, with special focus on ecological crises and cultural responses.

Call for Papers

Ecocriticism studies the ways, poems, films, performances, and digital media imagine nature, respond to ecological crises, and shape perceptions of the planet. At its core, ecocriticism insists that art and storytelling are inseparable from the landscapes, climates, and species that sustain life.

Building on this idea, the seminar explores the human-nature relationship across diverse forms of expression. The sessions consider how stories, images, and performances influence collective understandings of belonging and responsibility to the world. By bringing scholars and students into dialogue, the discussions aim not only to analyze representations of the environment but also to trace how those representations shape choices in a time of ecological urgency. Drawing on perspectives from myth and poetry, Indigenous storytelling, speculative fiction, film, and theory, the seminar creates space for both critical reflection and imaginative rethinking.

Papers may be sent on but not limited to

• Narrating the Anthropocene
• Ecological Apocalypse
• Ecofeminism: Gender and Resistance
• Postcolonial Ecologies
• Narratives of Extraction and Eco-Marxism
• Deep Ecology and Anthropocentrism
• Posthumanism and Nonhuman Agency
• Climate Anxiety and Environmental Grief
• Myth and Eco-Narrative
• Temporal Ecologies
• Place, Displacement, and Migration
• Indigenous Storytelling and Ecology
• Environmental Ethics in Narrative
• Media and Environmental Culture
• Speculative Climate Fiction
• Ecopoetics: Nature in Poetry
• Narratives of Waste and Decay
• Future Horizons of Ecocriticism
• Disability, Ecology, and Identity

Abstracts and full papers should be documented in MLA 9 style and should include the name, institution and phone number of the author

• Presentation: Rs 599 (Students)- Rs 799 (Scholars) - Rs 999 (Faculty)
• Participation: Rs 249(Students)-  Rs 349 (Scholars)-  Rs 499 (Faculty)

Send your abstracts to mtcpgseminar@gmail.com

• Abstract submission: 03 October, 2025
• Full paper submission: 20 October 2025

Regards

Dr Mathew Varkey TK, Principal

Dr Susan Thomas, Head of the Department 

Dr Neema Susan Mathews, Faculty Co-ordinator 

Ms Nandana Benoy Kumar, Student Convenor

Contact

Ms Rahna Babu - 8590921021

Ms Rahna Babu - 8590921021

Mr Jiffin Scaria - 7909237453

Ms Swathi M - 8139834427

Ms Nikhitha Jijo -7736674853