Landscape Paintings of the Circumpolar North: Polar Environmental Humanities Series Episode 1
This is the first episode in our polar environmental humanities series, and our guest is Dr. Isabelle Gapp from the University of Aberdeen! We met to discuss her new book, A Circumpolar Landscape, and the fascinating comparisons between Scandinavian and Canadian landscape painting beyond national borders. We discuss the way the paintings can often exhibit masculine performativity in their erasures and how the painters are nostalgically reminiscing about a landscape changing in front of their eyes from colonial environmental degradation, making ...
Erosion – Creimeadh: ASLE-UKI 2025 Conference
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, Biennial Conference 2025.
Title: Erosion – Creimeadh
9th August (Online Day); 12th-14th August 2025, University of Galway.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Nessa Cronin, John Brannigan, Malcolm Sen
The 2025 conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the University of Galway, Ireland. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and cultures – past, present, or future from ...