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Nature’s Narratives
This Spring, Tom van Bunnik is co-organizing a series of workshops under the theme of “Nature’s Narratives”, in collaboration with the Network for Environmental Humanities and the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU). In these workshops, participants are asked to consider how ‘nature’ produces its own narratives, and how imaginative and artistic expression can respond and raise attention to such stories – while acknowledging what is at stake in defining ‘nature’ in a time of increasing environmental degradation. Each workshop features an artist, writer, or poet working with environmental topics, processes, and objectives in conversation with a university researcher.
Tom van Bunnik will moderate a workshop with poet and scholar Juliana Spahr on June 13th, 2025. 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.
