We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers of the 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE), which will be hosted at University Utrecht from 14 to 17 April, 2026. The conference is titled: “Join the Orca Uprising!” Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice.” Visit this…

In the span of three days (5-7 June), Nottingham Trent University hosted the Conference Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization – Future Directions in Memory Studies. On Saterday, our team presented a panel, entitled Mnemonic Ecologies of Violence, and it explored the entanglements of different histories, forms, and structures of violence against humans and nonhumans and how these…

On June 13, poet and scholar Juliana Spahr and Tom van Bunnik discussed the practice of writing ecopoetry at the final installment of the “Nature’s Narrative” workshop series. Despite the heat, the room was packed with University students and staff, as well as creative practitioners, including writers, poets, and artists. Juliana started the workshop by…

On May 21 the Network for Environmental Humanities and Stichting BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries hosted a public reading featuring Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago) and Ifor Duncan, which was organised by Mia You and Adele Bardazzi. The event was part of the collaborative reading series The Florilegia (‘bloemlezingen’, ‘flower-gatherings’). The series features public readings and discussions by international writers working…

The Conceptualizing Ecocide project has launched various knowlegde clips. One of the clips features Susanne Knittel. We are reposting the clip here below. Susanne is member of the Ecocide Knowlegde Hub. For further information on the project and view other knowlegde clips, check out the link.

Our postdoctoral fellow Ifor Duncan is currently exhibiting the collaborative multimedia installation Border Depositions with Stefanos Levidis for the Liminal Ecologies: Thresholds of Transition and Entanglement Exhibition curated by Marianna Tsionki and Mariana Cunha at Tranzit.sk in Bratislava (27/03/2025-11/07/2025). Ifor and Stefanos activated the opening of the Exhibition by presenting their media lecture Weaponizing a…

Our postdoctoral fellow Ifor Duncan recently contributed the chapter ‘Rivers Shape Mountains: Mountains Become Rivers’ to the book The Mountain Speaks to the Sea: Tekla Aslanishvili, edited by Silvia Franceschini & Tekla Aslanishvili published by Eindhoven based Onomatopee. Reflecting on the experimental documentary practice of Tekla Aslanishvili, the chapter follows the sedimentary poetics of rivers,…

Susanne Knittel is one of the creative forces behind the theatrical performance This Is Not A Trial. Read more about this exhiting experimental play that takes the stage on 18 and 19 June, at Zimihc Theater Stefanus, in Utrecht. During the performance, audiences will actively be invited to participate in the urgent debate on how…

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…