Reading group on Environmental Humanities and Speculative fiction

Event

Date: Thursday 15 May 2025

Time: 16.00 – 17.30

Location: Room 439 at the Archaeology and Classical Studies building (Lilla Frescati) and Zoom.

Welcome to the fourth session of the reading group on Environmental Humanities and Speculative fiction, led by PhD student, Elisa Viteri Márquez.

Please register at: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/chUsnZyJQk-O4dYCaHRPEA
This time, we are mixing places, origins and themes in water, with some academic papers.

Speculative short stories:

Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta (2023). The Strange Folk, Omenana, Issue 25 (March). Available at: https://omenana.com/2023/03/31/the-strange-folk-nana-afadua-ofori-atta/
Emmi Itäranta (2015). Memory of water. London : Harper Voyager. Chapters 1-3. Available in pfd format in Box.
Tang Fei (2016). Call Girl. In: Liu, K. (Ed.), Invisible planets. Head of Zeus. Available in pfd format in Box. Also as an e-book at SU’s library.

Academic papers:

Astrida Neimanis (2018). Posthuman Phenomenologies for Planetary Bodies of Water. In: C. Åsberg, R. Braidotti (eds.), A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities, Springer International Publishing. Available in pfd format in Box.
Melody Jue (2020). Wild Blue Media. Duke University Press. Only the Introduction. Available in pfd format in Box.

In this meeting, we will wonder around the concepts, representation, embodiments and lives experiences of water and bodies of water, around three short fictional texts and two academic articles around these themes. You are welcome to come with comments, questions or reflections.

Read at your convenience and talk to you soon! Looking forward to it.

Environmental Humanities and Speculative Fiction Reading Group

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Research subjects

Environmental Humanities Middle Eastern and North African Studies Posthumanism and Ecocritisism

Last updated: April 15, 2025

Source: Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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