From ancient rituals of river worship to modern struggles over water rights, human cultures have been often shaped by our complex relationship with water – as sustenance, boundary, threat, or sacred entity. In the contemporary world, as rising ocean levels, droughts, and changing precipitation patterns disrupt human societies worldwide, emotional bonds with water are being transformed by climate crisis. This conference will explore how literature has captured these shifting affective responses to water in any literary genres, fiction and non-fiction, from any historical and geocultural areas, such as classical, medieval and modern literatures, Nordic and global.
The conference begins with an artistic session at Kulturhuset September 3rd at Kulturhuset. September 4th and 5th, the conference participants will present their article on water and emotion.
See the program for Eco-Emotions on Water for more details and abstracts.
The conference will be open to everyone. Please register your interest before August 20th. (Nettskjema)