<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Reuben Fowkes (HIS - Staff)" <R.Fowkes@uea.ac.uk><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SAVA Conference / Call for Papers</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2026. January 12. at 18:19:32 CET<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"kisspal.sz@gmail.com" <kisspal.sz@gmail.com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Maja Fowkes (HIS - Staff)" <M.Fowkes@uea.ac.uk><br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Aptos Narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">(...)</span></font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white; margin: 0px; font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(171, 124, 111);"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white; margin: 0px; font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(171, 124, 111);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white; margin: 0px; font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(171, 124, 111);">SOCIALIST ANTHROPOCENE IN THE VISUAL ARTS CONFERENCE<br><b>Solidarity with Nature: Envisioning the Ecological Heritage of World Socialism</b></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b><br></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(70, 177, 225);">Sainsbury Art Centre, University of East Anglia<br>21 - 22 May 2026<br>Deadline for proposals: 11 February 2026</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="http://www.sava.earth/" title="Original URL: http://www.sava.earth/. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA45100331-c462-b993-bf89-806dbaa37ab2" href="http://www.sava.earth/" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">www.sava.earth</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b> </b></span></div><p style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The progressive ecological heritage of socialism is routinely overshadowed by a prevalent emphasis on the billowing pollution of its smokestack industrialization and consistently occluded through the eco-catastrophist filter imposed on its environmental legacies by residual Cold War thinking. Rising environmental awareness from the 1960s saw socialist states make declarative commitments to the protection of nature, perceptible in ambitious environmental legislation, international scientific cooperation and the establishment of mass societies for the defence of natural heritage. Non-state forms of socialist environmentalism also emerged, with an ecological consensus bringing together radical currents of dissident environmentalism, alternative and faith-based eco-circles, as well as proponents of ecocentric worldviews at the confluence of ecosocialism and ancestral beliefs. This conference asks how socialist art history could be unlocked as a repository of this ecological heritage, explores the role of art practitioners in environmental movements and considers how experimental art practices performed beyond-human solidarities and expanded the system’s ecological horizons.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The notion of the Socialist Anthropocene encapsulates the system’s reconfiguration of the natural environment. As an ecocritical tool, it also paves the way for the non-deterministic reassessment of the capacious relation to nature of a geopolitical order that around 1980 saw a third of the world population living under various denominations of socialism. The geographies of world socialism extend from Vietnam to Cuba and from Albania to Mozambique, but also connotate the sites of multifarious infusions, interrelations and interactions with situated knowledges, traditions and beliefs that enlighten the system’s approach to planetarity. The SAVA Conference on Solidarity with Nature investigates how historical artworks portrayed the activities of official associations for nature protection, organized hiking groups and workers’ recreation in natural settings and how the progressive heritage of ecocentric attitudes and practices under socialism is reenvisioned in contemporary art. In what ways has the critique of the productivist ethos of developmentalism been articulated in the visual arts and how did ecology become a field for liberatory struggles? Also considered is how art practice was entwined with the rise of environmental consciousness around 1968 and embedded in the ecological activism of late socialism, and to what extent it articulated the entanglement of environmental and decolonial agendas. A further line of inquiry addresses artistic engagement with eco-utopianisms, varieties of eco-spiritualism and Indigenous nature practices, as well as the implications of the extension of socialist solidarity to more-than-human realms from the botanical and the zoological to the geological. </span></div><p style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Proposals are sought for 30 minute papers within and beyond the fields of environmental art history, ecocritical art theory and contemporary art practice that push the boundaries of interdisciplinary debate around attitudes and practices towards the natural world under socialism. Submissions are encouraged which foreground the ecological potentialities of African, Latin American and Asian socialisms, explore conjunctures of socialism and environmentalism in Pan-Africanism, Third Worldism and the Non-Alignment Movement, and engage with the ecocentric heritages of Eastern European, Baltic and Central Asian socialisms from ecocritical and decolonial perspectives. </span></div><p style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(171, 124, 111);"><b>Topics might include but are not limited to:</b></span></div><ul style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: white;"><li style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif;">Beyond scientific socialism; degrowth socialism and solar communism; socialist environmental holism; socialist cultures of self-sufficiency and repair; welfare socialism; planetary epistemologies of socialist science; Ujamaa and Afro-centric eco-socialisms; eco-conceptualism </span></li><li style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif;">Eco-utopian socialism; socialist hippies and eco-communes; eco-socialist sisterhood; socialist vegetarianism; eco-spiritual socialisms </span></li><li style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif;">Beyond-human heritage of socialism; depicting biodiversity and extinctions; artistic engagements with socialist zoos; hunting under socialism; socialist safaris; nature reserves; interspecies performances</span></li><li style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif;">Arboreal socialism; botanical acclimatization; transborder plant migrations; astrobotany; biocultural interconnectedness with rivers, lakes, forests, mountains, oceans and steppes</span></li><li style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif;">Eco-activisms; environmental consciousness in the socialist insurrections of 1968; eco-feminism; artist involvement with the environmental protests of 1989 from Eco-glasnost in Bulgaria to the Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement in Kazakhstan; Indigenous activism against socialist developmentalism</span></li><li style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); direction: ltr; margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif;">Ecological aspects of socialist artworlds; artist colonies as vehicles of nature encounter; ecocritical exhibitions; mail art as site for the dissemination of ecological thought</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The conference is organised within the framework of the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA), a European Research Council (ERC) / UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) supported research project led by Principal Investigator Dr. Maja Fowkes at the School of History and Art History, University of East Anglia.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="http://www.sava.earth/" title="Original URL: http://www.sava.earth/. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAcab8eebe-b350-7e1e-4360-3641a501f916" href="http://www.sava.earth/" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">www.sava.earth</a></u></span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></div><p style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(171, 124, 111);"><b>Proposal Submissions</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Please send a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>250 word abstract<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>and a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>short biography</b> to:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a data-linkindex="2" title="mailto:sava@uea.ac.uk" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAf470081b-15db-7103-8e2c-d0654f06dd73" href="mailto:sava@uea.ac.uk" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">sava@uea.ac.uk</a></u></span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Deadline for submissions:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Wednesday 11 February 2026.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Support for travel and accommodation costs is available.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">For further enquiries, please contact Natalia Pavlovicova:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; 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