Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies is a research network for environmentally oriented studies based primarily in the humanities.
The network consists of researchers whose work addresses environmental questions from numerous disciplinary angles; the fields of history, literature, ethnology, linguistics, landscape architecture and cultural studies are represented among the 50+ researchers now affiliated with NIES. Whil the network is strongly anchored in the Nordic countries, institutional affiliation in the Nordic region is not a prerequisite to membership. The network's spheres of interest, broadly speaking, include focuses on enviornmental integrity, stability and sustainability as illumined at the intersection of culture and nature.
Call for papers to The Seventh NIES Research Symposium, Environmentalism, Spatiality and the Public Sphere, to take place in Oslo, 27-30 September 2012.
Workshop on "Science Fiction Across Media: Alternative Histories, Alien Futures". Might be of interest to some NIES members. The workshop will take place at Umeå University in Sweden, April 23-24, 2012.
Some material from the workshops in Sigtuna are now available here. If you are looking for any other material or references please let us know and we will do what we can to get it for you.
The next NIES workshop will take place in Pori, Finland, 12-13 December 2011. The topic of the workshop is "Modernisation of Rural Landscape". Deadline for abstracts is Friday 11 November.
NIES has received two new grants from RJ and NordForsk to assist in the funding of the symposium and researcher training course on "The Environmental Humanities" scheduled for October this year at Sigtunastiftelsen.
