Concept Note:
The last decade of the Twentieth century witnessed a drastic shift from a ‘Bipolar’ to a ‘Unipolar’ world including the definition of the power politics and the diplomatic, economic and military status quo of the cold war era. Now the geographies of the globe had to shape the historical predictability, literary upsurges, socio-economic developments and psycho-cultural practices within the communities including the entire ecosystem of the various ecosophical narratives of climate change. In this context, ‘Geopolitics’ proved to the most apt term that invokes many things simultaneously. Political tussle and dominance is the most obvious meaning of the term that implicitly implies its global extent. This conflict is, in fact, the consequence of the increasing demands of natural resources, fossil fuel consumption and new agricultural opportunities. The cordiality between the term ‘geopolitics’ with climate change can be illustrated the best while describing International climate policy and climate action in particular.

The threatening rate of acceleration in climate change in the last two decades in the form of floods, droughts, land-sliding, melting icescapes and rising sea-level, heat waves, hurricanes and tornados, increasing temperature and wildfires leading to loss of life, coastal erosion and displacement, fatal change to the ecosystems, water scarcity and many more such ecological imbalances. 2023 proved to be the hottest year on record. The awful and menacing interference and encroachment of humans with the climate system needs a vital step to Replenish, Resurrect & Resuscitate (3R) the depleting ecosystem of the Earth. Within this framework, a major initiative has been taken under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, Cartagena (2000) and Nagoya protocols (2010) and Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015 were some of the most significant proactivities. However, the global emissions have not been decreased yet, instead augmented rapidly. Global coordination is, indeed, the only attainable elucidation and feasible resolution to the climate issue sans border skirmishes, sans power politics and sans resource hunting.

The 3rd EFSLE International Conference (The Lucknow Summit 2025) aims to examine the repercussions of the sustaining geopolitical strata accountable for the climate change and to figure out its possible resolutions. Being a multidisciplinary and an interdisciplinary conference, original research papers from all the streams are most welcome to discuss such grave issues largely related but not exclusively limited to the following:-

Sub-themes:
Geopolitics in the Anthropocene: An Intimidating Delinquency
Geopolitics, Globalization and Environmental Crisis
Climate Change and Rethinking the Nature of Political Geography
Literary Cartography: Cognitive Mapping, Spatiality and Architectural Narratives
World Literatures and Climate Change
Ecosophical Narratives, Indigeneity and Climate Change
Climate Fiction (cli-fi), Landscapes and Environmental Crisis
Ecopoetry, Ecodrama and Climate Change Theatre & Criticism
Eco-pedagogy, Eco-ethics and Conservation
Climate Geometrics and Geoengineering
Socio-psychological Attributes of Conservation
Climate Change and Societal Responses: A Sociological Perspective
Climate Change and Resource Scarcity, Displacement and Conflict
Climate Action, Sustainable Development and SEZ
Revisioning Global Politics and Climate Change
Indian Knowledge System and Climate Change Mitigation
Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Ecomusicology: Communicating towards Climate Change
Important Dates:
Registration Starts on: 25 June 2025
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 15 August 2025
Intimation of Acceptance: 01 September 2025
Final Paper Submission: 15 October 2025
Intimation for full paper Acceptance: 25 October 2025
Notes:
Abstract of 300 words with 5 keywords must be mailed to- md@efsle.org
Mention “The Lucknow Summit 2025” in the subject line.
Abstracts can be submitted through the Google form as well using this link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpG-H62d0I_ZVppZJaHbqyvzs6x_tFQ6hIomtrvvW4gR_8GA/viewform?usp=header

Please use 12 point Times New Roman and avoid footnotes.
The full paper must be within 4000-6000 words. Use the latest MLA style of referencing.
Selected Papers will be published in an edited volume with ISBN no. (Not in the form of conference proceedings, instead a complete edited book)
Authors are requested to attach their bio-note (in third person, not exceeding 100 words) separately.