For more information on particular events please contact the convener(s) of the event )
September 25, MONDAY, 15.00-16.00 Central European Time / 16.00-17.30 Helsinki time
Chasm II: Empirical Ecocriticism
Environmental Humanities reading group
Convener: Laura op de Beke, University of Oslo, Norway
September 28, THURSDAY and October 26, THURSDAY, Time to be announced
Gardening in/against the Anthropocene Research Group
Convener: Dong Xia, University of St Andrews UK
October 20, FRIDAY, Time to be announced
Environmental Humanities from the Algerian Desert
Convener: Fella Benabed, Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University, Algeria
October 25, WEDNESDAY, Time to be announced
Historica Journal Eastern Europe Environmental History Special Issue Roundtable
Convener: Viktor Pál
November 5, SUNDAY, 12.00-13.00 Central European Time / 13.00 – 14.00 (Turkey), online
The Construction of Ecofeminism in a Different Geography: Nature Narratives by Women in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Republic of Turkey
Convener: Zozan Cetin, Independent Scholar/Writer
November 8, WEDNESDAY, 11.00-12.00 Central European Time
Waste recycling in Ukrainian SSR and agency of Jews: 1920s – early 1930s
Convener: Tetiana Perga, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
November 15, WEDNESDAY, 17.30- Central European Time / 18.30 Helsinki time / 11.30 EDT
Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic Polar Scholar Lisa E. Bloom and installation artist Judith Hersko in conversation with Cheryl J. Fish
Convener: Cheryl J. Fish, City University of New York
November 18, SATURDAY
Poetry in Plastic, Plastic in Aesthetics
Conveners: Z. Gizem Yılmaz and Social Stage Theatre Company
November 21, TUESDAY, 17.00-18.30 Central European Time / 18:00-19.30 Helsinki time, Zoom
Energy(and)Humanities: Writer Meets Researcher (James Reich about Nuclear Terrorism, Ecofeminism and Intermedial Ecocriticism).
Guest speaker: James Reich, novelist, essayist, and journalist, and ecopsychologist
Convener: Inna Häkkinen, University of Helsinki
November 22, WEDNESDAY, 9.00-15.00 Central European Time / 10:00-16:00 Helsinki time), University of Helsinki, hybrid
Environmental Histories of Finland book launch and Second Environmental History Day
Convener: Viktor Pál
November 22, WEDNESDAY, 15.00-16.30 Central European Time / 16.00-17:30, Helsinki time, Zoom
“Adentrarse por las aguas del Río de la plata (Argentina): vivencias, imaginación y memoria”
Conveners: Ana Marcela França, Postdoctoral Researcher, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz/CNPq, Brasil and Manuel Quiroga
November 24, FRIDAY 8.00-10.00 Central European Time / 14.00-16.00 Malaysian time), Zoom
Tengayen, the unsung hero of the highlands: Relocating the humble wild vegetable as a crisp in modern Lundayeh diet
Convener: Kavitha Ganesan, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
November 25, SATURDAY, Time to be announced
What the Deck: On Divination, Hope and Feminist Reimaginings
Convener: Sonakshi Srivastava, Asohka University, India
November 30, THURSDAY Time to be announced
Taiwan On-Air Podcast Episode 17 Book Chat: Bridging Taiwanese Eco-literature to the World- Interview with Ecotranslator, Dr Darryl Sterk
Convener: Ti-han Chang, University of Central Lancashire, UK
December 2, SATURDAY, 18.00 Central European Time / 9.00 Seattle / 12.00 NYC / 17.00 London / 19.00 Jerusalem
Challenging Captivity: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Animal Liberation
Convener: Rimona Afana, Independent Scholar
December 15, FRIDAY, 10:30 Central European Time / 18:30 Melbourne time
Conversations in the Anthropocene: friendship across law, medicine and climate action
Conveners: William Ruan, University of Cambridge, UK and Vincent Wang, University of Melbourne, Australia
February 2024
Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art. Towards Theory and Practice
Conveners: Nikoleta Zampaki, Peggy Karpouzou