Abstract:
These papers explores examples of environmental storytelling, and asks what environmental storytelling can do. How does such initiatives tap into our imaginaries, or offer re-imaginations?
The panel will be chaired by Sara Asu Schroer, and is part of the symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities”.
Papers
- Bridget Vincent, "Ecological witness and the ethics of spectatorship in Lisa Gorton’s Mirabilia"
- Marta Mboka Tveit, "Norwegian “undringslitteratur”: Petro-repentance, changing L/lands and collective identity in trouble"
- Elizabeth Oriel, "Temporal Storytelling of/for a Changing Earth: How News Media in Two Countries Record and Story Plants’ Phenological Change"
- Kitija Balcare, "Ecotheatrical Imaginaries: Shared Environment as Shared Space for “What If” Theatre"
About the Symposium
As the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) starts its 5th year, the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) is organizing a symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities” on 6 and 7 September 2023, to highlight and celebrate the innovative environmental humanities research happening in Norway and neighboring Scandinavian countries, especially by early career researchers. Read more about the programme for the symposium here.