11th Biennial EASLCE ConferenceUtrecht University14–17 April 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE), will be hosted at Utrecht University from 14 to 17 April, 2026. Dedicated to the theme of “Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice”, the conference will…

On 5 February, Salomé Lopes Coelho is presenting at GERMINATIONS: Conversations in Environmental Humanities with Latin America & the Caribbean, an event organized by the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS). The title of her presentation is ‘Ecological Violence and Documentary Cinema: Lithium Mining Conflicts from Covas do Barroso to the Andean Puna’. The…

Join this free online presentation by Ifor Duncan titled ‘Hydrologies of Dispossession’ coming Wednesday 10 december, at 16:30 CET (local time 18:30). The lecture is hosted by Salt, cultural institution based in Istanbul, Turkey. Rivers are on the frontline of environmental devastation. Facing manifold threats—pollution, drought, displacement, and dispossession—communities living with freshwater environments are central…

Conflict Rivers. Waterways and Ecological Devastation in Visual Cultures and Practice is a workshop hosted by the ERC funded Ecologies of Violence: Crimes Against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination Research Project and the Water Cultures Community of the Network for Environmental Humanities, and Critical Pathways at Utrecht University and organised by Ifor Duncan.  …

The Conceptualizing Ecocide Conference will take place at Utrecht University. This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars, practitioners, activists, and policymakers to critically explore and advance the emerging concept of ecocide. Across keynote addresses, panels, and roundtables, we will examine ecocide from legal, political, pilosophical, artistic and pedagogical perspectives. Friday morning, Susanne Knittel is to chair the panel ‘Pluralizing the Impacts…

On Wednesday, 21 May, the Network for Environmental Humanities and BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries are organizing a public presentation featuring Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago) and Ifor Duncan. This is the third session of the collaborative reading series The Florilegia (‘flower-gatherings’). The series features readings by international and local writers working at the intersection of language justice and climate justice through…

THIS IS NOT A TRIAL is a theatrical experiment that invites you to become part of the urgent conversation on how society can assign accountability for environmental destruction. On 18 and 19 June, a group of artists, actors, and students from Utrecht University will stage a fictional trial at the ZIMIHC theater Stefanus in Utrecht…

On 10 April, the Memory & Heritage Network of Utrecht University and the ERC project Ecologies of Violence: Crimes Against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination (Eco-Violence) are organizing a workshop on the representation of colonial and ecological violence in museums. This workshop is aimed at scholars and cultural practitioners (such as curators and museum…

This talk revolves around my recent book Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human. The book defines and apprehends the developing field of environmental memory studies and reflects on the possibilities, challenges, prospects and limitations of culturally remembering (in) the Anthropocene. Located at the intersection of environmental humanities and memory studies, the analysis draws on…

What is the role of eco-poetry in the Anthropocene? How do eco-poets adopt and reinvent poetic conventions to face the climate crisis? These are some of the questions Juliana Spahr and Tom van Bunnik will address during the workshop organized by the Network for Enironmental Humanities and the International Literature Festival Utrecht (IFLU). Through discussion…