Living Together in Multispecies Riverscapes: Keywords for the Blue Humanities
International seminar and workshop to be held in Oslo 11-12 May 2026.
The EcoLit Research Group is currently focusing on a project funded by the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities (OCEH), "Living Together in Multispecies Riverscapes: Keywords for the Blue Humanities." 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.
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).
Environmental Diversity Now!
This event explored issues of race, ethnicity, and gender, as well as diverse ways of opening up environmental problems and possibilities in the academy and beyond. We were joined by acclaimed poet and nature writer Camille Dungy and prominent scholars in the environmental humanities, with upcycled music, celebration and food.
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EcoLit Now! An International Symposium on Ecocritical Literary Studies and the Environmental Humanities
Climate Change and the Anthropocene in French and Arabic Literature
November 10, 2022
Gro Bjørnerud Mo, “Time, matter, morals: Francis Ponge and the Anthropocene”
Teresa Pepe, “’That Future is Now and it Stinks’: Climate Change in Contemporary Arabic Dystopian Fiction”
Petroaesthetics and Comics
October 13, 2022
Rinni Marliyana Haji Amran, “Oil, Environment and National Identity in Bruneian Fiction”
Rebecca Scherr, “Comics, feminist futures, and knowledge”
Ecological Grief, Mourning, and Restoration
June 2, 2022
Sissel Furuseth, “Ecological Grief in Contemporary Nordic Literature”
Kristen May Mills, “Interspecies Mourning in Medieval Texts”
Michael Lundblad, “Slow Violence and Restoration: A Disability-Studies Critique of ‘Damaged’ Bodies and Ecosystems”