EuCoHN network member Nicola Thomas together with network associates Blake Ewing and Enaiê Mairê Azambuja have published a virtual exhibition on wetlands. The Wetland Times project investigated how time is understood, lived, and represented in wetland environments across three geographically and culturally distinct sites: Morecambe Bay in the UK, the Wadden Sea in northern Europe, and theContinue reading “Wetland Times virtual exhibition now online”
Author Archives: katieritson
(Re)Turning to the Wadden Sea: Our Network Meeting in 2025
EuCoHN members gathered in Oldenburg in May 2025 for the second meeting of the network. This time felt very different to our first meeting in Munich in 2024 – there, the emphasis was on getting to know each other’s work and approaches, and facilitating the space for conversations that would allow us to build theContinue reading “(Re)Turning to the Wadden Sea: Our Network Meeting in 2025”
Article published by Corridor Talk Team
Almost exactly a year after the Corridor Talk project ended, the article Creating Corridors for Nature Protection: Conservation Humanities as an Intervention in Contemporary European Biodiversity Strategies was published in the journal Environmental Humanities. This article, written by all six team members together and representing a synthesis of the different research insights from the three-year projectContinue reading “Article published by Corridor Talk Team”
Third Year: Research Roundup
The final year of the Corridor Talk project, extended by three months because of the Covid outbreak, concentrated as might be expected on the completion of project deliverables. It also provided an opportunity for the team to reflect individually and collectively on their work, with some of these reflections being distilled into the project’s thirdContinue reading “Third Year: Research Roundup”
Symposium “Vadehavet i litteraturen”
Katie Ritson participated in the symposium on the Wadden Sea in Danish literature on 30-31 March 2023. Organised by Anders Ehlers Dam from the Europa-Universität Flensburg in cooperation with Taarnborg in Ribe and the Danish Wadden Sea Centre “Vadehavscentret,” the event drew literary scholars from across Denmark and Germany and featured readings by prominent DanishContinue reading “Symposium “Vadehavet i litteraturen””
New publication on Bernhard Grzimek & the Bavarian Forest National Park
Graham Huggan has published a new article in the Ecozona: European Journal of Literature, Culture & Environment. “From the Serengeti to the Bavarian Forest, and back again: Bernhard Grzimel, celebrity conservation, and the transnational politics of national parks” is free to download on the journal website.
Call for papers: Special Issue “Perspectives on Conservation Humanities”
Corridor Talk PI Graham Huggan is looking for contributions to a special issue on Conservation Humanities. Broadly defined, conservation humanities is an emerging paradigm that exists within the larger multi- and interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities, and which aims at using humanities-based methods—textual and discourse analysis, philosophical and historical inquiry, ethnographic fieldwork—to shed light onContinue reading “Call for papers: Special Issue “Perspectives on Conservation Humanities””
Bavarian Forest & Šumava Field Trip
Graham Huggan One of the pick-up pamphlets available at the administration centre for Nationalpark Bayrischer Wald (Bavarian Forest National Park) in Grafenau carries the title ‘Grenzenlose Wald: Wildnis entdecken’ (‘discover the borderless wild forest’). The title is misleading in several respects. Bavarian Forest National Park (BFNP) occupies a large expanse of mixed forest, some ofContinue reading “Bavarian Forest & Šumava Field Trip”
Corridor Talk Represented at the AHRC-DFG Workshop
George Holmes and Katie Ritson travelled to London in May to represent Corridor Talk at the AHRC-DFG Workshop “Perspectives on UK-German Arts and Humanities Research.” The workshop, which took place over two days, involved over sixty delegates from the two funding organisations and a range of universities across the UK and Germany. Besides giving aContinue reading “Corridor Talk Represented at the AHRC-DFG Workshop”
Bernhard Grzimek and the Bavarian Forest National Park
Another article has been accepted for publication in the context of the ‘Corridor Talk’ project! Graham Huggan’s short piece focuses on the work of the German ‘celebrity conservationist’, Bernhard Grzimek, situating it in the context of historical and contemporary debates about the political and ecological importance of national parks.
CONSERVATION HUMANITIES 