About the group
Within the broader framework of the environmental humanities, we explore how literary and cultural studies situated in different historical, cultural, and linguistic contexts can make important contributions and interventions in relation to environmental problems and aspirations.
We engage with interdisciplinary fields such as ecocriticism, multispecies studies, posthumanism, human-animal studies, and animality studies, as well as environmental justice, biopolitics, and cultural theory broadly conceived.
Symposium: Ecologies of Animality, Disability, and Neurodiversity
26-27 October 2026
Free and open to the public (both in person and online)
Register here: https://nettskjema.no/a/658477
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Living Together in Multispecies Riverscapes
The EcoLit Research Group is currently focusing on a project funded by the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities (OCEH), "More-than-Human Rivers and Deltas: Keywords for Living Together." Plans for publishing an edited volume on this topic are in progress.
The project brings together diverse interdisciplinary scholars interested in developing and exploring keywords related to living together in riverscapes in more sustainable and ethical ways.
The common thread running through various literary, cultural, and ethnographic case studies is a focus on terms and concepts that can point toward what produces or disrupts better ways of living together among humans, between species, and with the natural environment, often including long and violent histories of imperialism, power, and appropriation.
An international seminar and workshop was held in Oslo 11-12 May 2026.
The primary collaboration of the project is with The New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE, unive.it) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (unive.it).
