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This talk presents research from the final chapter of Miriam Sentler’s doctoral thesis project, exploring how Shetlanders use motifs from mythology and science fiction in creative performances to navigate the practical implications of the renewable energy era.

In this seminar Eco-Emotions’ guest researcher Chen Cui (from University of Lausanne) will be giving a talk titled "Embedded in Bed and Beyond: Distributed Cognition and the Pearl-Poet’s Bed Imagery".

With Jeanne Féaux de la Croix (University of Bern), with Yu Sang and Zora Ritz

The third and final of our symposia with the Material Ecologies of Design group organized at the Centre for Advanced Study takes place on Wednesday 22 April, under the heading Mining Modernity: Aesthetics with/out Extraction. The symposium will explore how modernity was mined in ecologically precarious nature and examine how the exploitation of extractive materials was designed into the material culture of the late 19th and early 20th century. It features talks by Emily Jane Cockayne, Helene Engnes Birkeli, Tonje Haugland Sørensen, Anna-Maria Hällgren, Denise Bertschi, Nicolas Maffei, Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith, and Thomas McQuillan.

Climate Migration and Engaged Political Theory

In this seminar, project member Karin Kukkonen will share work in progress from the JEUX project, which investigates how the writers in early-modern salons played with literary forms.

The Hungry before the Manorial Court, and Singing Woodpeckers. Weather and Its Perceptions in Fourteenth-Century England

In this seminar the MA-scholarship awardees of 2025, Magnus Hørnes, Essi Katariina Nuutinen and Sara Louise Gjelsvik West, will present their projects. 

Territorial rights and requirements regarding natural entities

Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem

In this seminar, we discuss how theories of resilience can be used to study cognitive and affective responses to changing environments in works of literature.

Repairing Place: Climate Change, Reparations and International Law

The second of our three symposia with the Material Ecologies of Design group organized at the Centre for Advanced Study takes place on Friday 13 February, under the heading Extractive Efficiency: Global Systems, Global Objects. Speakers: Robin Schuldenfrei (The Courtauld, University of London); Anders Munch (University of Southern Denmark); Kasia Jezowska (University of New South Wales); Elisa Maria Lopez (KTH Royal Institute of Technology).

With Daniel Mohseni Kabir Bäckström (University of Oslo)

At this seminar, we will read and discuss various texts on botanical imagination.

The second salon of the LCE and Eco-Emotions collaboration “Salon and Book – A Double Ecology”: An interdisciplinary experiment in writing together.

Eco-Emotions welcomes its project members and affiliates to a half-day seminar, exploring our individual work and the project as a whole. 

Crisis and Care in Ecocritical Literature

Join us to celebrate and discuss "(Re)made in China. Material (Dis)connections, Art, and Creative Reuse". A volume edited by Anna Grasskamp, University of Oslo.

Ocean as Territory and the Conundrum of Culture in Deep Seabed Mining Advocacy

Energy Shortages During the Short Coal Age in Europe (1860-1960)

In this seminar, Jenna M. Coughlin will present her project on water imaginaries present in media that responds to hydropower development.