Nature’s Narratives

This Spring, the Network for Environmental Humanities’ impact community on Climate and the Imagination, in collaboration with the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU), is organizing a series of four workshops under the theme of “Nature’s Narrative”. These workshops are organized by dr. Mia You and co-organized by Tom van Bunnik.

Through these workshops, open to both the public and UU affiliates, participants are asked to consider how we represent and thereby define our relationship to ‘nature’ through writing, and how imaginative and artistic expression can help foster collective action for climate justice. Each workshop features an artist, writer, or poet in conversation with a UU researcher in environmental humanities.

On 13 June, Tom van Bunnik will moderate a workshop with poet and scholar Juliana Spahr. Together, they will consider the practice and theory of eco-poetics. What is the role of eco-poetry in the Anthropocene? How do eco-poets adopt and reinvent poetic conventions to face the climate crisis? Through discussion and writing exercises, participants will experiment with poetic structure and write their own eco-poetry.

For more information and tickets, see the ILFU website.