Monthly seminars
Every month, a participant of Eco-Emotions or a guest lecturer gives a seminar on any subject related to the research project. Interested parties can contact project leader Stefka G. Eriksen to participate.
Upcoming
This seminar will be a reading group led by project member Rebecca Suter. We will read Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant.
The midway evaluation of project member and Eco-Emotions doctoral research fellow Josh Burgoyne will be an open event. The event is combined with a guest lecture by his external reviewer, Prof. Dale Kedwards (Cambridge University), later the same day.
Dale Kedwards from Cambridge University will in this Eco-Emotions seminar give a guest lecture. More information will follow.
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This seminar will be led by project member and Eco-Emotions postdoc Zack Abrams and focuses on eco-emotions in creative writing and participatory pedagogy.
In this seminar, project member Line C. Engh will present her new minigraph Wayfinding with Monks.
The third event of the LCE and Eco-Emotions collaboration “Salon and Book – A Double Ecology”: An interdisciplinary experiment in writing together.
This research project investigates the value and impact of collective reading of literature aloud regarding the audience’s ability to pay attention to and immerse themselves in literature, and to experience a sense of belonging with one another and with the reader.
In this seminar, Eco-Emotions is visited by Marco Caracciolo, Associate Professor of English Literature at Ghent University.
In this seminar, project member Zack Abrams will talk about the first Eco-Emotions course, “Writing, Nature, and Eco-Emotions”, which he led this spring semester.
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".
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.
In this seminar the MA-scholarship awardees of 2025, Magnus Hørnes, Essi Katariina Nuutinen and Sara Louise Gjelsvik West, will present their projects.
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.
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
In this seminar, Jenna M. Coughlin will present her project on water imaginaries present in media that responds to hydropower development.
Professor Andrea Rota will lead a reading group on ecology and religion.
In this month's reading group, we will read and discuss Zack Abrams’ article "Writing in Times of Intersectional Crises: Ann-Helén Laestadius’ Stöld and Responding to Interwoven Crises in Sápmi."
Eco-Emotions' next annual conference on water will occur September 3rd to 5th 2025. Welcome!
Eco-Emotions participants are welcome to join a guided tour in the exhibition 'Lifeblood' at the Munch Museum.
Eco-Emotions MA scholarship holder Anna Barbariol and Research Assistant Kaja Ladstein will present their research projects.
Francesco Barbieri, Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, University of Bergamo, is visiting UiO and Eco-Emotions.
Karin Kukkonen discusses with the Eco-Emotions Group what it means to do fieldwork around literary texts.