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Call for Papers
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT (ASLE)
Third Biennial Conference
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan
2-5 June 1999
General theme: "What to Make of a Diminished Thing"
Featured speakers include:
o JOHN ELDER, author of *Reading the Mountains of Home*
o STEPHANIE MILLS, author of *In Service of the Wild:
Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land*
o SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS, author of *Staying Put:
Making a Home in a Restless World*
ASLE welcomes proposals for plenary sessions, panels, and papers
on topics related to literature and environment, such as:
o environmental restoration
o urban nature
o environment and community
o ruined landscapes
o environmental justice
o stewardship
o ecology and religion
Please send 1-2 page proposals to:
Walter Isle, ASLE 99
English Department MS 30
Rice University
6100 South Main
Houston, TX 77005
Phone: 713-737-5606
Fax: 713-285-5991
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DEADLINE: 15 January 1999
Web site: <http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djp2n/asle.html>
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 2 15:46:24 1998
From: "Brett and Kimberly " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Supreme Court rejects endangered whale appeal
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:54:35 -0600
Supreme Court rejects endangered whale appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court rejected Monday an appeal by
Massachusetts of a ruling that it violated the federal endangered species
law by not doing enough to protect Northern Right whales from commercial
fishing equipment. The case began in 1995 with the filing of a lawsuit by
an environmentalist Richard Max Strahan, an officer of GreenWorld Inc.
There are only 300 to 350 Northern Right whales in the western North
Atlantic, and the eastern North Atlantic population may be nearly extinct,
according to evidence in the case. See full story
<http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556898691-913>
