{"id":22678,"date":"2024-04-11T08:52:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T00:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw\/?p=22678"},"modified":"2024-04-11T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T00:53:38","slug":"elementor-22678","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/elementor-22678\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP–Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 51 No. 2 \u201cEnvironmental Health Humanities: Microbes, Plagues, and Healing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies <\/strong><\/p>

Vol. 51 No. 2 | September 2025 <\/strong><\/p>

Call for Papers <\/strong><\/p>

Environmental Health Humanities: <\/strong><\/p>

Microbes, Plagues, and Healing<\/strong><\/p>

Guest Editors<\/strong><\/p>

Pin-chia Feng<\/strong> (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)<\/strong><\/p>

Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai<\/strong> (<\/strong>Tamkang University<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>

Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2024<\/strong><\/p>

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In 2015, the Rockefeller Foundation\u2013Lancet Report introduced \u201cPlanetary Health,\u201d highlighting the profound impact of environmental changes, including climate change, on global well-being, food security, and the proliferation of diseases caused by various microorganisms. Fast forward to 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, emerged, underscoring the interconnectedness of human health and the environment. Works such as Samuel Myers and Howard Frumkin\u2019s Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves, Richard Horton and Selina Lo\u2019s \u201cPlanetary Health: A New Science for Exceptional Action,\u201d and Pierre Horwitz and Margot W. Parkes\u2019s \u201cIntertwined Strands for Ecology in Planetary Health\u201d offer comprehensive frameworks melding environmental concerns with health, politics, and well-being. Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s definition of life is systemic, and his envisioning of a life in interaction with \u201cits environment\u201d seems congruent with Georges Canguilhem\u2019s conception of \u201clife\u201d and other philosophers such as Ren\u00e9 Dubos, Claude Bernard, and Bernard Stiegler. From these critical trajectories we hope to redefine the possibility of future medical and environmental humanities research.<\/p>

While we are still struggling to grapple with the ongoing repercussions of COVID-19, society increasingly recognizes the importance of biomedical advancements and medical technologies. Addressing the psychological impacts of infectious diseases, the anguish of separation, and related healthcare challenges is paramount. Consequently, discussions surrounding environmental health humanities research and practice have gained unprecedented significance.<\/p>

For this special issue of Concentric, entitled \u201cEnvironmental Health Humanities: Microbes, Plagues, and Healing,\u201d we aim to delve into the imaginaries of diseases and viruses, as well as revisit discussions on healing within literature and culture. We invite submissions that are devoted to the interactions with nature and wildlife, food system, and changes in demography and technology. Additionally, the issue hopes to scrutinize the environmental and societal factors contributing to medical and environmental racism, alongside the erosion of social structures due to industrial technologies. We welcome analyses of mindful approaches such as dietary practices, gardening therapy, and activism, which can present alternative paths to healing within modern medicine. Furthermore, we encourage investigations into the spiritual dimensions as pivotal components of human and environmental health that may catalyze change in the Anthropocene era.<\/p>

Environmental health humanities, as an interdisciplinary field, offer a platform to tackle complex issues at the intersection of medicine, humanities, ethics, and beyond, thereby fostering critical inquiry and dialogue. Contributions examining various facets of this overarching theme are warmly welcomed. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:<\/p>

(1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Medical humanities and the Anthropocene
(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Through the lens of pandemic
(3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Narrative of outbreaks
(4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Plague and pandemic writing
(5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contagion and contagious disease
(6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Quarantine, security, society of control
(7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Health, disease, and poverty
(8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graphic medicine and its discontents
(9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Plagues, ageing, and gerontology
(10)\u00a0 The normal and the pathological
(11)\u00a0 Odors, smells, and health
(12)\u00a0 Biopolitics, necropolitics, and immunopolitics
(13)\u00a0 Resonances and entanglements
(14)\u00a0 Immunity, community, and state of exception
(15)\u00a0 The posthuman and the medical imagination
(16)\u00a0 Mindfulness and spirituality<\/p>

Please send complete papers of 6,000-10,000 words, 5\u20138 keywords, and a brief biography to concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw<\/a> by December 31, 2024. Manuscripts should follow the latest edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers<\/em>. Except for footnotes, which should be single-spaced, manuscripts must be double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman. Please consult our style guide at http:\/\/www.concentric-literature.url.tw<\/a>.<\/p>

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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studie<\/em><\/strong>s, indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, is a peer-reviewed journal published two times per year by the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Concentric<\/em> is devoted to offering innovative perspectives on literary and cultural issues and advancing the transcultural exchange of ideas. While committed to bringing Asian-based scholarship to the world academic community, Concentric<\/em> welcomes original contributions from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. In each issue of Concentric<\/em> we publish groups of essays on a special topic as well as papers on more general issues. http:\/\/www.concentric-literature.url.tw\/<\/a>.<\/p>

For submissions or general inquiries, please contact us at:<\/strong> concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw.

CFP-51.2-Environmental Health Humanities<\/a>

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