Something for environmental/affect group?
From: enscan-request(a)uia.no <enscan-request(a)uia.no> On Behalf Of Stefka Georgieva
Eriksen
Sent: den 28 januari 2026 13:11
To: enscan(a)uia.no
Subject: [enscan] CfP: Eco-emotions on Earth, 2.-4. September, Oslo
Dear colleagues,
The Eco-emotions research initiative is happy to share the Call for Papers for our next
annual conference, Eco-emotions on
Earth<https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/projects/eco-emotions/annual-conferences/eco-emotions-on-earth/eco-emotions-on-earth.html>,
to take place on September, 2nd-4th, 2026, in Oslo.
Throughout the history of humanity, earth, with all its lifeforms, has had a crucial
significance and impact on human existence, from providing essential resources, to
symbolizing Mother Earth and home, or bringing forth earthquakes, draughts and landslides,
and being a main motivation for violent conflicts and occupations. Whether
hunter-gatherers' communities, the pioneers of the agricultural revolution, or
inhabitants of urban and industrial centers, human cultures have always relied on stable
relationships to earth and its resources and have strived to tame changes in these through
different means, including trade, religion, or technology. With its rural and wild,
cultivated and gardened forms, earth has enticed and inspired, as well as threatened and
harmed, which has also led humanity to search for new lands, or to imagine alternative
earths and lifeforms.
This conference invites scholars to explore how literature, on its own or in comparison to
other humanities disciplines, has captured these shifting affective responses to earth and
all its lifeforms in any literary genres, fiction and non-fiction, from any historical and
geocultural areas, such as classical, medieval and modern literatures, Nordic and global.
We welcome papers on topics including but not limited to:
* the role of earth and landscapes in representing and shaping emotional responses to
climate change
* the aesthetical and ethical dimensions of earth
* earth as metaphor for affective responses to places and spaces
* agency of earth and all its lifeforms
* alternative/imaginary earths and lifeforms
Our keynote speakers this year are:
* Emily Lethbridge, Associate Professor at Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic
Studies
* David Farrier, Professor at School of Literature, Languages and Cultures, Personal
Chair of Literature and Environment, The University of Edinburgh
* Serenella Iovino, James Gordon Hanes Distinguished Professor in Humanities,
Department of Romance Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
If you are interested in contributing to the conference with a 20-min paper, send a title,
a brief abstract of 200 words, and a short bio to
eco-emotions@iln.uio.no<mailto:eco-emotions@iln.uio.no> by March 15th, 2026. For
more information, see the full Call for Papers
here.<https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/forskning/prosjekter/affektiv-respons-pa-miljoendring-i-litteraturen/arlige-konferanser/cfp-earth-conference.pdf>
Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, and feel free to share the CfP
widely with other colleagues and students who may be interested.
With all best regards,
Stefka, on behalf of the organizing committee
Stefka G.
Eriksen<https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/people/aca/old-norse-and-celtic-philology/tenured/stefkagu/index.html>
Associate Professor, Old Norse Studies/Medieval Studies
Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
University of Oslo
PB 1102 Blindern
0317 Oslo
PI of research initiative
Eco-Emotions<https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/projects/eco-emotions/>
(2024-2028)
Head of Research ILN - Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske
studier<https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/projects/eco-emotions/events/monthly-seminars/reading-group-on-emotions-with-line-c.-engh.html>
(2025-2026)