The Association for the study of Literature and the Environment is calling for papers for the upcoming 2017 conference in Detroit, Michigan on “Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery.” Possible topics include: The literatures, arts, and cultures of the Rust Belt, the Great Lakes, and Appalachia; Transnational rust; Elemental rust; Labor and rust; Aeons of rust; The arts and sciences of resistance; Methods of resistance; Genres of resistance; Recovering ecological citizenship; Recovering lost lands; Recovering past and future.

Abstracts due by December 12, 2016 and more information can be found here..