Participants
We invite you to use this space to introduce yourself, your preferred pronouns, and share some information about your background and interests in EH.
31 responses to “PARTICIPANTS”
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Hi everyone, I’m Amanda Douge I have a thirty-year background as an actress, writer, theatre director and arts educator. Recent work includes the theatre production “St.Joan/Greta” in London and an upcoming Netflix series KAOS, starring Jeff Goldblum. I’m currently a Creative Writing DFA student at University of Glasgow, my research interests include: climate revolution, the epistemology of performance/research/praxis, political poetry in social transformations, radical pedagogy, feminist theory, and the literary practices of Anne Carson. I’m looking forward to meeting everyone next week and thrilled to be a part of the training. 🙂
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Hi, all! I’m Daniel Woody (Call me “Woody”), and I’m in my first year as a PhD student in English (Literature) at Örebro University in Sweden. After my MFA in poetry/creative writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I worked as an instructor of literature, academic writing, and creative writing courses at universities in the US and China. Although I’m still in the process of focusing my PhD research, I can say now that it is focused on African American speculative fiction, poetry, and drama. Specifically, I’m interested in how these literary works challenge our conceptions of space/place, and how these conceptions can inform social and environmental issues like climate change and migration. Looking forward to the workshop!
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Hi everyone! I’m Julia Eggleston, and I’m a PhD student in Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton. My research examines the mediation of bird sound at encounters between birds, humans, and devices in practices of bird sound recording, archiving, and digital preservation, and in doing so investigates the relations to duration and durability that emerge at these encounters. I’m also interested in the geopolitics of knowledge and translation and global political economy. I teach literature courses on ecological crises, transformation, and solidarity at Binghamton. I’m super excited to meet everyone and participate in this workshop!
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Hi everyone! This is pantea. I’m from Tehran, Iran. I’m now writing you from a train in France, on my journey to Norway from Barcelona where I currently live. I’m already excited about next week through reading about you here, and the wonderful readings!
I’m a first-year practice-based PhD student in Music at City, University of London and my work explores the intersection of sound-based praxis with wetlands’ conservation and restoration practices. More specifically and currently, I’m focused on a case study, that is the community-based work of Khamoosh, as a methodological inquiry into how we do research, how we come together, collective research, co-authorship and self-governence. And of course how these relate to the intersection of sound/wetland.
Khamoosh – which I’m a member of is a transdisciplinary community archiving the sonic heritage of Iran through sounds of everyday life. I’m inspired by Indigenous ways of thinking and being, plants and wetlands. I’m also a sound artist and musician, working in/with radios, such as Radio Web MACBA (Barcelona) and Soundcamp (London & other locations). Trying to survive as an artist besides my PhD and gardening in a small balcony. Very much looking forward to meeting you all!
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Hi everyone! Helena here. I’m originally from Barcelona but based in Edinburgh.
I’m in the first year of a practice-based (poetry) Interdisciplinary Studies PhD at the University of Glasgow, in the School of Social & Environmental Sustainability. So far doing practice-based research in a non-creative department has been a weird ride, but really enriching.
My project will involve writing poetry about land reform and land rights, merging data into the poems from qualitative research (interviews and creative workshops), as well as mixing in fragments from historical, cultural, legal documents and folklore/vernacular practices and knowledge related to land and place. I aim to explore the social and environmental impacts of land ownership in Scotland at a time of growing socioeconomic inequality and national and global environmental crises. The academic component will also examine the relevance of the material contexts of land governance to ecopoetics, and the role of ecopoetry and creative/cultural practice in public debates around land.
I look forward to meeting you all and hearing all about your projects!
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Hey all!
(Have to mention I just got off a dreadful moment of data loss, during digitization of a few samples from analysis working with pollen and NPPs (basically, a bunch of quantitative plant data with temporal depth entered into a spread sheet). After many tiresome hours manually typing in digits, I accidentally erased the whole thing… Impossible to calm myself down, I chose to read from the literature list instead and lesbian processing really did the trick!! Data is gone but I feel fine.)
Something about me: I’m a PhD student in stone age archaeology at the department of Historical Studies, Gothenburg University in Sweden. I work with forager dwelling/activity in wetlands (hello pantea!) during the Mesolithic in a south-central Fennoscandian context, material spanning 10-7000 years old. I work with environment reconstruction at a site called Dagsmosse and from there, studying different levels of environmenthuman encounters and distribution; in terms of data inquiry, archaeological tradition, archival practices and images of the mesolithic context. I have a general interest in wetlands and wetland problematics, but also in human terminologies and particularly datafication processes involving environment and vegetation. Mostly because they clearly contest contemporary and historical ideas on “environment”; laying as foundation for any products of research and, in the archaeological case, our collective ideas of a prehistory.
I’m so much looking forward to the workshop and meeting you all next week!
Best / Paulina
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Hello, I’m Micha Marczak. I’m a researcher, psychologist, activist, and an aspiring educator in ecopsychology and nature literacy.
I’m a freshly baked PhD in psychology at NTNU in Trondheim. In my PhD research, I explored emotional responses to climate change and their links with climate action, resilience, and health. My project combined qualitative and quantitative psychological methods to deepen our understanding of the emotional dimensions of planetary health, encompassing psychological, social, and political aspects of emotional engagement.
I am now trying to recover from the hostile, empty void left by completing my PhD in a very extractivist milieu. As part of my recovery plan, I’m setting off on a 2500 km bikepacking trip the Saturday right after our summer school. I hope to return from this adventure ‘ablaze with inspiration’ (the opposite of ‘burnt out,’ which I am now) and ready for new creative projects that bring people together
I’m looking very much forward to meeting you and participating in this course!
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Olá!
my name is Maria Gil and I am an artistic director of an independent theatre company based in Lisbon, Portugal
Teatro do Silêncio
https://teatrodosilencio.pt/I am interested in literature and ecology.
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Dear coursemates,
My name is Kitija and I am coming to Norway from Latvia. I am theatre critic meanwhile working also in environmental communications field.
Currently I am PhD candidate at the University of Latvia researching how ecotheatre becomes form of environmental activism and also working at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Arts at the University of Latvia. My research focus is performing arts, ecology, posthumanism and ecocriticism.
Greetings from Riga,
Kitija
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Hello!
I’m Felicia Stenberg (she/her), and I’m currently sleep deprived. I’m also currently a PhD student in English Literature at Linnæus University in Växjö, Sweden. My research focus is on speculative fiction, digitization, ecology, and knowledge production and dissemination.
Looking forward to the course, fjords, and experiencing Trondheim.
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Hello everyone!
I’m Elliott Berggren (he/him) and I’m a second year PhD candidate in English Literature at Linnaeus University in Sweden, currently associated with the research center for colonial and postcolonial studies called Concurrences.
My research project focuses on anglophone world-literatures and emerges from a world-systemic/world-ecological framework, through use of which I am establishing the concept of the “world-grotesque” as a way of apprehending and registering how the conditions of socio-ecological and -economic violence manifest in literary texts from regions disproportionately affected by capitalist extraction and exploitation.
Looking forward to meeting you all for this course!
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Hi everyone!
My name is Johana, and I’m super excited and curious about this week.
I’m in the last year of my PhD in environmental assessment of bioenergy and land management, in my last project we investigate if it is better to cut or not the forest in Norway from a carbon perspective. I come from a numerical field, I studied engineering and now work with industrial ecology, we run models and create scenarios and try to assess climate and biodiversity impacts (I could run the models for your poems Helena haha). pfiu haha.
I’m very curious about this course because I want to know what is happening in the human sciences (I’m human at heart ) and I feel very lucky to be able to participate!. The models in my field are necessary but they are only half of the story, and they do not hold hope. I’m in search of hope, new stories, and new ‘tools’, I would love to be able to soften my science.
I’m from Colombia but have been living in Trondheim for 6 years now.
Looking forward to meeting you all!
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Hi everyone!
I am a PhD student from the Umeå Institute of Design up in Sweden and closing in on my first year as a PhD student. I am originally from Pakistan but have lived in Umeå for the past 15 years. I have spent the past decade practicing as an architect before sliding into research.
My research is on embodied food practices and carries the discourse on ontological design by examining how embodied food practices shape and are shaped by the environments they inhabit. In my practice, I have designed participatory workshops( a method I absolutely love), interactive installations as well as multisensory performances.
I have had an extremely intense term and this course hopefully is a sweet ending to it. Looking forward to seeing you all!
Leena
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Dear all,
I am Parissa Chokrai and currently a PhD-candidate in environmental psychology at NTNU with a background in history, history of art and culture science. When I started my doctoral thesis the plan was to investigate narratives of sustainability, integrating storytelling as well as disruptive communication as drivers for radical pro-social/environmental behaviour.
Additionally, I was keen to find methods that would make (environmental) psychology studies, but also scientific studies in general, more inclusive – especially because we currently exclude – it feels like – 95% of all people from our research, even though the crises of our time (climate, biodiversity, etc.) affect us all.
This matter bothered me so much that I have spent most of the last year looking for alternative research methods. It has been a rocky and very lonely road – my own discipline met my endeavour at best with the benevolent words: “It’s nice that you’re concerned about inclusive methods, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings.”
I am therefore even more thankful and excited to participate in this course to learn more and discuss topics such as epistemic violence, alternative forms of storytelling and knowledge production from a variety of different perspectives.
@Paulina: I am so very sorry for your loss of data – it happened once to me (but the data was ultimately restored after 3 months) and it feels horrible!!
I hope, the damage can be fixed somehow!I’m really looking forward to the week with you and the course!
Parissa
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Hi all! I’m Lisa. I’m a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton. In my dissertation, I analyze satirical works of fiction by contemporary women writers from different countries, specifically their use of dark humor to critique the neoliberal ethos, the enduring legacy of colonial structures of gender and race, and dualistic human-nonhuman relationships. In the undergrad composition classes I teach, I also like to focus on satire (in short fiction, novels, poems, movies, and non-fiction) that highlights these issues. I’m particularly interested in finding new ways of engaging students in discussions about political ecology and environmental ethics. Can’t wait to meet you all!
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Greetings!
I’m Anna, a PhD student in English Literature at Linnaeus University in Sweden. My doctoral project is part of the graduate school “Multimodality and Intermediality: Humanist Research in a Digital World” (MIDWorld). I am also affiliated with the Green research cluster of the Center for Multimodal and Intermedial Studies at Linnaeus University.
In my research, I primarily work with narrative-focused video games. By employing the frameworks of post-classical narratology and intermediality, I investigate video games’ medium-specific affordances to generate emotional and meaningful engagements with ecological processes, endangered environments, and non-human beings.
Good night and see you tomorrow!
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Hello!
My name is Tomine and I am in my first year of doing a PhD in literature at the University of Oslo, where I am a participant in a project called Translatability of Oil. I also do some freelance writing, primarily as a theater critic for Scenekunst.no.
In my PhD project, I study oil in contemporary Norwegian literature and theater, with an emphasis on aesthetic representations of how bodies engage with oil, how structures of feeling related to oil are expressed and explored, and to what extent affective attachments to petroleum play a part in preventing a transition from oil to other forms of energy. Oil is associated with a range of promises and emotions, especially in Norway where oil is closely linked to the idea of the nation as a “lykkeland” (“happy country”). On the other hand, oil is associated with environmental risk and injustice, and with fueling climate change. In other words, there are many conflicting feelings at play, which I aim to study through readings of literary texts and theatrical performances.
Looking forward to meeting everyone tomorrow!
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Hello! I’m Ingerid, an emigrated trondheim-er, delighted to be back in my city of birth, especially after reading for this course and about you people here – what an exciting mix of interesting people!
I’m a journalist, journalism teacher and recently started PhD student in climate/environmental journalism. I’ve been working as a journalist for the last 15 years, increasingly in the intersection between journalism, art and research, experimenting with different ways of storytelling, including cooperating with musicians, artists and theatre directors. My PhD project will look into how journalism can enable and/or inhibit public engagement in environmental and climate issues.
Excited to meet you all!
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Hi everyone!
I’m Yoram, in my 2nd year of my PhD here at NTNU. My research focuses on the history of deep-sea mining and I have a more specific interest in the history of environmental concerns around this prospective industry. Looking forward to meeting everyone
Best, Yoram
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Hi everyone!
My name is Khalil, I am from Tunisia, and I am based in Bergen.
I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Bergen. I research in the field of contemporary migration across the Mediterranean. I am looking at what I designate as the Genre of “Hydro-Literature” by focusing on transnational narratives of migration across Oceans. I try to study the mechanics (hydraulics) of this literature proposing migrant mobility as a hydraulic power, revising closed waterways, destabilizing maritime frontiers, and inventing emerging naval trajectories.
I am looking forward to meeting you all.
Khalil
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Hi everyone!
My name is Michal. I am a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of the Humanities at the University of Warsaw, working on my dissertation about visual culture of the climate crisis. Aim of my work is to rethink the ways in which the concept of image is understood in the climate change discussion In my research, I explore how images, media representations, and visual narratives shape our understanding of environmental crises and how they influence the public debate. Moreover, my aim is to reflect on the emotional responses evoked by these representations. I approach climate change as a multifaceted visual phenomenon encompassing technology, media infrastructure, and political-economic aspects. In my research, I use tools coming from anthropology, visual culture, memory studies, environmental humanities, animal and ecological studies, and posthumanist thought.
see you tomorrow!
Michal
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Hi!
I am Kim Arvid (he/him). I am 10 months into my PhD in Musicology and Interdisciplinary Ocean studies here at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). I am a Norwegian musician and have lived in Trondheim/Tråante for almost 10 years now.
My PhD is about Inuit drum dancing (qilaatersorneq) in the Kalaallit (Greenlandic) context and its deep relationship to marine aspects. Entangled with this work is also an ambition to center Inuit performers through collaborative initiatives. I am not an Indigenous knowledge holder, but I consider myself an open ear in the pluriverse of knowing.
Excited to meet all of you and learn about your journeys.
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Hi everyone! I’m XIE Rui, a PhD candidate in film studies at the Academy of Film at HKBU. My research primarily focuses on how waste, toxicity and pollution are portrayed in Chinese cinema. In essence, my research applies a material eco-criticism methodology to investigate a different on-screen representation of eco-horror. I have also written on children science fiction and film noir during my PhD.
I am particularly looking forward to meeting environmental humanists from other regions who are interested in waste studies (and Wasteocene), blue humanity as well as ecofeminism in this course. By deploying these theoretical tools, I also hope to explore how Chinese eco-cinema, as a “genre” of film that evokes eco-action (since my project is all about writing at the moment), can echo other forms, such as music, exhibitions, and literary adaptations, in transmedia narratives through my days in Trondheim. Lastly, so excited to visit Norway for the first, looking forward to everything I see, touch, and hear here!
Write this short intro while waking up at 2:00 a.m. due to jet lag.
See you all tomorrow!
Rui
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Hello! I’m Angela. I am a PhD student in film studies at University of Basilicata.
I am currently conducting a research about the representation of Basilicata in fils, both fiction and non-fiction. This research is mediated by an ecocritic point of view, that allows me to merge together different approaches from different disciplines.
My doctoral project is also the attempt at deconstructing the dominating narrative around Basilicata, Southern Italy and peripheral areas, while trying to build a more conscious one from a situated viewpoint.
I am so excited to be here in Trondheim, I believe this is a great opportunity to expand my knowledge.
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Hello everyone!
I am Yagmur Atlar, a first year PhD student at Linnaeus University in Sweden and my research focuses on contemporary theatre within the scope of ecocriticism and intermediality. I am affliated with IMS (Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies) and MIDWorld (Multimodality and Intermediality: Humanist Research in a Digital World) at Örebro University.
I am looking forward to meeting you all very soon!
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Hey there,
I’m Maximilian Klein from the University of Luxembourg. I have a background in philosophy and English literature studies. Currently I am at the University of Luxembourg as a PhD candidate in the Social Scienes.
I am having a look at the potential of the sustainlux.lu website as an ICT to improve the implementation of the UNSDGs in Luxembourg. My research is focused on the different framings of collaboration and sustainability and the way they impact organizations’ ability to come and work together. What barriers are there and can the SustainLux website help transform them into junctures?
This is not my first visit to Trondheim and I am always happy to come back here. I am looking forward to meeting all of you.
Max
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Hi all, I am Nimisha! I am from India and am a PhD student in the English department at SUNY Binghamton, US. I focus on post-colonial literatures and visual cultures that contend with climate change and climate related migration from a human rights perspective. More specifically, I am interested in ideas of the nation and literary forms that emerge in relation to the climate “refugee” crisis, citizenship, and human and environmental rights.
I am also in the research and planning stages of a public humanities project that is centered on local environmental storytelling from the perspective of school-aged children. I hope to build that project from what I learn here!See you all around, Nimisha!
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Hello everyone!
My name is Ann Elise Albertsen and I am a PhD candidate at NTNU, the department of teacher education, English section. I live in the Lofoten islands in the north of Norway and I have a background as a stage director, drama teacher and teacher in English and communication studies. My research revolves around embodiment and aesthetic experiences using applied theatre, arts-based approaches and Shakespeare in literacy learning. I am interested in the blue humanities and the use of our senses and affective selves in relation with our environments. I am currently working on a project where I use The Tempest by Shakespeare to explore non-human voices and stories related to the ocean. This will be a collaboration with a drummer and an installation artist.
I am grateful to be given the opportunity to participate in this course and look forward to this week with you all.
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Hi everyone! I am Siyu, I’m from China. I am a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and the Department of Consumer Research, Communication and Food Sociology at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. I completed my master’s degree in cultural anthropology at Eötvös Loránd University, also I studied global art and curatorial practice at the Tokyo University of the Arts as a research student.
My doctoral research is about the shelf life and food system. This research will analyze the regulation policy and conduct fieldwork from the food operator to public organizations, and then to individual kitchen practices. It involves multi-site and -species ethnography. From the perspective of microbiopolitics, I will analyze what shelf life is and how microbes entangle with us in eating practice, reflecting on the life control and life digitalization systems, as well as the food wastage and financialization of the environment.
It is really great to meet everyone today. I look forward to collaborating with all of you and having fun together!
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Hi! My name is Milena 🙂
I’m from Abya Yala 🌎 more specifically from Managua, the historical territory of the Chorotega people, my ancestors. We are surrounded by numerous lakes, lagoons, and volcanoes.
I have a BA in Human Ecology and finishing an Erasmus Mundus MA in Children’s Media. For my dissertation, I am focusing on audiovisual productions by Indigenous women and the way they portray the multidimensional meanings of Water (scientific and biocultural knowledge, spiritual teachings, personal and collective healing values) expressed through embodied practices. I am looking into this topic from decolonial and Indigenous scholarship, and from intergenerational and visual sovereignty frameworks.
Would love to meet and talk with you all!
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Hi everyone,
My name is Elisa and I started my PhD studies at Stockholm University (Department of Middle Easter Studies) last February. I plan to study Arabic science fiction and dystopian fiction from an ecofeminist lens.
I grew up in Madrid and have lived in many places until today, mosty in the Middle East. This introduction comes very late and it is mostly an opportunity to say thank you and wish you luck for all your wonderful projects. Don’t forget to contact me if you come to Stockholm or Madrid, which will be my two homes in the next 3 years.
It has been a lovely week and I hope we will remain in touch!
Best,
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