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”
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New publication on bison rewilding in the South-Western Carpathians (Romania)
Monica Vasile has published a new article in Environment and History: From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison is available for download here.
New European Conservation Humanities Network
We have some very good news to share: the new European Conservation Humanities Network that the Corridor Talk team has applied for in cooperation with ten other scholars from Germany and other European countries has been approved! Funded by the DFG, the network will run for three years, starting in early 2024. It will buildContinue reading “New European Conservation Humanities Network”
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”
Wadden Sea workshop in Lauwersoog
At the end of April, the Corridor Talk team gathered for our third and final place-based workshop. This time, we convened in Lauwersoog, in the fluid landscape of the Dutch Wadden Sea coast. Our first encounter with the area was a trip around the Lauwersmeer National Park in the company of fisherman Jaap Vegter and biologistContinue reading “Wadden Sea workshop in Lauwersoog”
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”
Literature and the Wadden Sea Teaching Resource Online
After the two workshops on Teaching the Wadden Sea through Literature, Eveline de Smalen has put together a teaching resource on literature and the Wadden Sea. The resource lays out different approaches to bringing the Wadden Sea and its communities, geography and ecology together with knowledge and insights from literature and can be used inContinue reading “Literature and the Wadden Sea Teaching Resource Online”
Recommendations from the 15th International Scientific Wadden Sea Symposium
In December, Eveline de Smalen attended the 15th International Scientific Wadden Sea Symposium, where she presented on Teaching the Wadden Sea through Literature, the project she is working on as part of Corridor Talk. At this symposium, panelists in 7 different thematic sessions met after their panel presentations to discuss sets of recommendations for scienceContinue reading “Recommendations from the 15th International Scientific Wadden Sea Symposium”
Second Year: Research Roundup
Graham Huggan, February 2022 It has been a year since our last research roundup and longer than that since our opening workshop and AGM, so it seems timely to provide an update now. The global pandemic started at the same time as our project funding, and inevitably it has continued to necessitate changes to ourContinue reading “Second Year: Research Roundup”
Workshop Report: Teaching the Wadden Sea through Literature 2
After an exploratory online workshop on “Teaching the Wadden Sea through Literature” in June 2021, Eveline de Smalen organised a follow-up workshop in collaboration with the Waddenacademie on 16 and 17 November 2021. While it was scheduled as an in-person event, the worsening Covid-19 situation in Europe and the Netherlands in particular meant that itContinue reading “Workshop Report: Teaching the Wadden Sea through Literature 2”
CONSERVATION HUMANITIES 