About the symposium
Literary and cultural texts that explore environmental issues provide important sites for ecocritical analysis. Within the broader framework of the environmental humanities, this symposium will illustrate how literary and cultural studies situated in different historical, cultural, and language contexts can make important contributions and interventions in relation to environmental problems and aspirations. Participants will 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. A roundtable discussion will focus on ecocritical literary studies within the framework of environmental humanities at the University of Oslo and beyond. Join us for this international symposium! Coffee and refreshments will be served. Please register to attend.
Program
14:00 - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ursula Münster, Director of the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH)
14:15 - OSEH Environmental Humanities Lecture
Michael Lundblad (EcoLit Research Group Leader)
How to Live Together with Rats: Multispecies Literary Idiorrhythmy
15:00 - Roundtable Discussion
Ecocritical Literary Studies and the Environmental Humanities
Participants: Sissel Furuseth, Gro Bjørnerud Mo, Teresa Pepe, Pierre du Plessis
Moderated by: Michael Lundblad
16:00 - Coffee break
16:15 - Panel: Ecocriticism in Action
Inger Østenstad, The Mark of Global Warming in a Contemporary Norwegian Realist Novel
Stefka Eriksen (Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research), Notions of Energy in Old Norse Culture
Chiara Lanza (University of Ferrara, Italy), Soils Criticism: How Can Soils Emerge from Environmental Narratives?
Guðrun í Jákupsstovu (University of Bern, Switzerland), Deep Time Mythologised: Reading the Anthropocene in Morten Strøksnes' Havboka
Moderated by: Gro Bjørnerud Mo
18:00 - Coffee break
18:15 - Keynote Lecture
Jihan Zakarriya (Aarhus University, Denmark),
Gender and Environmental Violence in Modern Arabic Literature
Introduction and moderator: Teresa Pepe
All are welcome! We hope to see you there!