Symposium: Thinking with the Sea

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

30.9–1.10.2026
Forum Marinum (Linnankatu 72, Turku, Finland)

This symposium brings 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 languages of the symposium are Swedish and English.

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 event has been supported by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, the Waldemar von Frenckell Foundation, and the William Thuring Foundation.