Symposium: Thinking with the Sea

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Thinking with the Sea – Interactions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities

30.9–1.10.2026
Forum Marinum, Linnankatu 72, Turku

We are happy to announce the symposium Thinking with the Sea - Interactions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities, to be organized in the autumn of 2026. We wish to bring together researchers with different scholarly perspectives and approaches to the interactions between humans and seas, lakes, and other water features — both historically and in the present. 

The symposium will be organized by the Institute of Maritime History at Åbo Akademi University, the Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science (SOS) and Comparative Literature at Åbo Akademi University. The languages of the symposium are Swedish and English.

Confirmed Keynote speakers:  

• Sabine Höhler, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) // Co-director, Centre for Anthropocene History, KTH  
• Søren Frank, Professor of Danish and Nordic Literature, University of Copenhagen  

Please save the dates! Information about call for abstracts, registration, and the program will be published here on the symposium website as the details are finalized.