Dear all, A lot of exiting things are happening in the coming month with invited researchers/artists talking about eco critique and media, a book release, and Media Impact, so here is an overview: * 25. Nov. 15.30-16.00: Media Impact talk with Emma Tornborg- "Låt Donald Trump uttrycka dina känslor! GIFS i sociala medier" * This event is in Swedish När vi delar en GIF låter vi kända personer uttrycka våra känslor för oss. Emma Tornborg berättar mer om vad som händer med gester som blir ryckta ur sitt sammanhang och hur det påverkar samtalet på sociala medier. Read more: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2021/media-impact… * 1. Dec. 10.15-12.00: IMS Seminar – book release for Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning Across Media, Edited by Jørgen Bruhn and Beate Schirrmacher and written as a collaborative project between IMS researchers and other intermedial scholars. * The book is available as open access here: https://doi-org.proxy.lnu.se/10.4324/9781003174288 Read more: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2021/ims-book-rel… * 8. Dec. 13.15-15.00: Artist’s talk by Adam Dickinson – ”From Lab Rat to Lab Art: Ecopoetics in the Laboratory” * What happens when poetry and science meet in the laboratory? Arguing for an expanded notion of writing that involves scientific technology and procedures, this artist’s talk will feature the poetics and research involved with my ongoing work that seeks to make legible the often inscrutable biological and cultural writing intrinsic to the Anthropocene, especially as this is reflected in the inextricable link between the metabolic processes of human and nonhuman bodies and the global metabolism of energy and capital. Adam Dickinson is the author of four books of poetry. His latest book, Anatomic (Coach House Books), which won the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize from the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada, involves the results of chemical and microbial testing on his body. Read more: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2021/from-lab-rat… The seminar is financed by the Department of Film and Literature at LNU * 9. Dec. 10.15-12.00: Seminar with invited researchers – ”Manmade and Media-borne: the Ecological Crisis across Media” * In this seminar (the first of a series of events) we discuss some of the ways in which the ecological crisis is on the one hand manmade and on the other hand media-borne. In other words: we live in the Anthropocene or Capitalocene epoch which is characterized by specific human activities’ destructive effects on a planetary scale – and media are the only means by which we can both visualize, understand, and criticize this state of emergency. By way of three short introductory lectures different perspectives on the matter will be offered – followed by a panel discussion. * Program: 10.15 Erik Erlanson, Linnæus University, Introduction

 10.20-10.40 Jacob Wamberg, Aarhus University, “Entropic Reboot: Toward a Posthuman Media Ecology of Avant-Garde Art”

 10.40-11.00 Julia Leyda, NTNU, Trondheim, “Petro-Guilt in Norwegian Television”

 11.00-11.20 Jørgen Bruhn, Linnæus University, “Environmental emergencies across media”

 11.20-12.00 Panel discussion and Q&A: “Media and the Ecological Crisis”. Read more: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2021/manmade-and-… This public seminar is kindly supported by Vice Chancellor funds and by Linnæus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal studies (IMS). Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims IMS website: https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-in… Signe Kjaer Jensen / PhD Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Literature Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>