On 11 April, writer Nikki Dekker and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University Kári Driscoll, led participants in a discussion on zoopoetics. Focusing on birding as a writing method, participants were encouraged to represent and foster more-than-human engagements through language. The room was packed full. Among the participants were students, biologist and creative…

On 10 April artists, curators and museum educators came together to address the representation of colonial and ecological violence in museums. The workshop titled ‘Representing violent pasts: museums, colonialism and environmental degradation’ was held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Read the summary report, written by Flora Lehmann, to discover the key achievements and outcomes gained and…

Conflict Rivers is a workshop hosted by the Ecologies of Violence: Crimes Against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination Research Project and the Water Cultures Community of the Network for Environmental Humanities at Utrecht University and convened by Ifor Duncan.   Rivers are constitutive features of the cultural imagination, the focus of innumerable artworks, literary…

On March 13th, Clara de Massol de Rebetz joined us for a reading group on eco-memory to talk about her book Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human (2023). Clara is a lecturer and researcher in memory studies and environmental humanities based at King’s College London. Her research, grounded in cultural and literary studies, explores…

On February 13th we were joined by Zsuzsanna Ihar for our bi-weekly project reading group. Zsuzsanna is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge where she co-convenes the research group Military Surplus: Toxicity, Industry, and War, and she is also currently Landhaus fellow at the Rachel Carson Center. We were thrilled to read a…

We are delighted to welcome visiting researcher Ido Fuchs. Ido is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program for Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. He is also an Associated EUME Doctoral Fellow at the Berlin Forum Transregionale Studien. Until June he will be staying as a visiting researcher at Utrecht University Network for Environmental Humanities….

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…