Program
Forum Marinum (Slottsgatan 72, Åbo)
Ons. 30 september
09.00–09.30 Kaffe och incheckning
09.30–09.45 Inledningsanförande
09.45–10.45 Keynote: Søren Frank
My lecture explores how literature can help us rethink human existence under the unstable conditions of the Anthropocene. Drawing on Blue Humanities and environmental thought, I argue that climate change should not be understood merely as an environmental ”crisis” to be solved, but as a geological and oceanic condition that humanity must learn to live within. Through readings of Danish authors Johannes V. Jensen, Holger Drachmann, and contemporary oceanic theory by thinkers such as Steve Mentz, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, and Jeremy Davies, the lecture examines how literary texts register deep time, sea-level rise, catastrophic change, and adaptation to unruly environments. Rather than offering technological solutions, hope of an Edenic return, or ecological optimism, blue literary history provides what Ottmar Ette calls ÜberLebenswissen: experiential and existential knowledge about how to endure, navigate, and imagine life in increasingly wet, unstable, and unpredictable worlds.
Søren Frank is a Professor of Danish and Nordic Literature at the University of Copenhagen.
10.45–11.00 Paus
11.00–12.30 Sessioner I & II
Isabel Arce Zelada, ”Decolonising the Caribbean Sea: Tracing Maritime Boundaries”
Jonas Ullerup Dejgaard, ”Gothic Imaginaries at the Danish West Coast”
Magne Drangeid, ”Living with Cold Seas: Affect and Constraint in Cold Water Island Literature”
Tuuli Parviainen, ”Infusing Marine Community Knowledge into Reimaging Just and Crisis Resilient Marine Futures”
Roland Ingelin, ”Turning with the Sea: Toward a Phenomenology of the Irony of Water”
Juliane Amberger, ”(The art of) Living at the Coast: Human-Sea Relations in Tove Jansson’s Den ärliga bedragaren (1982) – An Ecocritical Blue Approach”
Jolanda Linsén, ”How Do We Articulate More-than-Human Organisms and Our Relations with Them?”
Viktor Emanuelsson, ”Making Fun of the Maritime World: August Strindberg’s Ironic Sea Fiction”
12.30–13.45 Lunch
13.45–15.15 Sessioner III & IV
Maria Cullen, ”Making Sense of the Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ Exodus: An Examination of the Agency of Humans and the Sea in Maritime Refugee Journeys”
Farideh Amirfarhangi Bonab, ”Amid the Water, in Search of Water”
Reetta Sippola, ”Material Agency of Environment in the Sea Charts of Cook´s Third Voyage”
Ulrike Gehring, ”The Legibility of the Sea. Seventeenth-Century Marine Paintings as Laboratories of Early Hydrography”
Alice Sundman, ”Experiencing Underwater Milieus: Ocean Creatures and Anthropogenic Impact in Laline Paull’s Novel Pod”
Jane Ruffino, ”Useful Beasts: Sharks, Sea Monster Narratives and Submarine Cables”
Ilona Hongisto, ”Cinematic Imaginaries of Life Underwater”
Zuzanna Legan, ”’A Song Throbbing Underwater’: Creative Practices of Attuning to Aquatic Conversations”
15.15–15.30 Kaffe
15.30–17.20 Sessioner V & VI
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17.00–18.00 Möjlighet att besöka Forum Marinums utställning (valfritt)
19.00–21.30 Middag
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Tors. 1 oktober
09.30–10.30 Keynote: Sabine Höhler
The Anthropocene as a concept for identifying and understanding human agency as a geological force has fostered interdisciplinary approaches to study the entanglements of human and Earth history. In these integrated efforts, the ocean is mostly perceived as a function, an enabling factor, or a casualty: a regulator, a source, a sink. The paper aims to develop the ocean’s elemental position in Anthropocene research and explores how Anthropocene history can address social, cultural, technological and environmental oceanic changes and their implications for ocean governance.
Sabine Höhler is a Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm where she also serves as the Head of Department of Philosophy and History. She combines an education in physics and in history of science and technology. Her research addresses the intersections of technoscience and environmental history concerning the earth and space sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries in a planetary historical perspective, with a focus on ocean monitoring, mapping, and modelling practices. Since 2024 she leads the Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History at KTH to develop a new historical approach to integrating human and Earth history.
10.30–11.00 Kaffe
11.00–12.30 Sessioner VII & VIII
Cecilia Lindhé, ”Carving the Sea: Maritime Memoria and Bronze Age Rock Art”
Laura-Marie Dehne, ”Engaging Technology: From Measuring to Understanding Whale Sharks?”
Montana Torrey, ”What Color Is the Cambrian Sky? Material Thinking with Cambrian Blue Clay”
Inger-Anne Søfting, ”The Sea as Supermarket: Anthropocene Wilderness in Paul Lynch’s Beyond the Sea”
Laura Willström, ”En ö och dess språkliga landskap: havet som aktör”
Peter Björkroth, ”Från barnbok till brygga: sjökaptenens heder, litterära narrativ och kroppsligt handlande till sjöss”
Laura Ervo, ”Att ge havet en röst: Arters representation och människa‑vattenrelationer i Östersjön”
Carola Nordbäck, ”Att tänka med moln och grundvatten: Blå perspektiv i Elin Wägners ekologiska skrivande 1939–1947”
12.30–13.45 Lunch
13.45–15.15 Sessioner IX & X
Christian H. Voie, ”’The Great Drying’: Writing the Devastated Freshwaterscapes of the Anthropocene and the Biodiverse Potential of their Restoration”
Firouz Gaini, ”The Water at the Navel of the World”
Shaonli Bhowmik, ”Oceanic Untouchability: Caste, Toxicity, and Stratified Waters in the Blue Anthropocene”
Heidi Vanhanen, ”Our Sea: The Role of Maritime Museums in the Blue Humanities Network”
Olivia Franck, ”The Sea, the Woman and the Life in the Archipelago”
Fredrik Leijonhufvud, ”Boatbuilding Traditions around the Åland Sea as a Historically Interconnected Maritime Knowledge System”
Krystyna Pirogowicz, ”Nathan Söderblom’s Mare Lutheranum. The Baltic Sea as a Religious Concept”
15.15–15.30 Kaffe
15.30–16.15 Paneldiskussion: ”Thinking with the Sea today and tomorrow”
16.15–16.30 Avslutningsanförande
16.30–18.00 Möjlighet att besöka Forum Marinums utställning (valfritt)
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