IASS-konferansen 2025 i München

Peripetier, katastrofer, happy endings: Vendepunkter i nordisk litteratur og kultur

30. juli til 2. august 2025

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 Kjære kolleger,

Det foreligger nyheter om den 35. IASS-konferansen i München sommeren 2025:

1) Konferansens nettside har vært online i noen dager nå: www.lmu.de/iass2025. Den vil bli utvidet fortløpende i løpet av de neste månedene. Der vil man finne all informasjon om konferansen, som program, plenumsforedrag, anbefalinger til hoteller og restauranter for lunsjpausen, mulige utflukter og mye mer.

2) Vi minner om at fristen for å sende inn forslag til konferanseinnlegg er 1. desember. Send forslagene med tittel og sammendrag (abstract) til iass2025@lrz.uni-muenchen.de.

3) Temaet for konferansen har så langt vært »Peripetier, katastrofer, happy endings: Vendepunkter i nordisk litteratur«. Vi ønsker å utvide det til »Vendepunkter i nordisk litteratur og kultur«, slik at det fremgår av tittelen at vi også ønsker innlegg fra film, tegneserier og sakprosa, men også fra kulturstudier og andre relevante fagområder. Vi har allerede gitt mange eksempler fra disse feltene i vores call for papers. Fellesnevneren for konferansen er overbevisningen om at vendepunkter er narrativt konstruerte, og også viljen til å revurdere begrepene »Peripetier, katastrofer, happy endings«.

4) Følgende datoer gjelder fortsatt:

• februar 2025: Du blir informert via e-post om dine forslag til konferanseinnlegg blir godkjent.
• mars 2025: Et foreløpig utkast til program vil bli publisert på hjemmesiden.
• mars til mai 2025: Påmeldingsfrist. Send inn en bindende påmelding til konferansen på hjemmesiden i løpet av denne perioden. All informasjon vil være tilgjengelig på hjemmesiden.
• juli til 2. august 2025: IASS finner sted i München.

Informasjon om turist- og kulturtilbud i München og omegn vil også bli publisert på hjemmesiden.

Vi ser frem til å motta forslag til konferanseinnlegg.

På vegne av organisasjonsteamet i München

Joachim Schiedermair

IASS Conference 2025 in Munich

30 July – 2 August 2025

Peripeteias, catastrophies, happy endings: Turning points in Nordic literature and culture

Dear colleagues,

We have some news about the 35th IASS Conference in Munich in summer 2025:

1) The homepage www.lmu.de/iass2025/en is now online and we will be adding information to it over the course of the next few months. All information about the conference will be accessible on this homepage, including the conference programme, keynotes, hotel recommendations, sightseeing tips, and more.

2) We would like to remind you that the deadline for paper and panel proposals is 1 December. Please send proposals (title and abstract) to iass2025@lrz.uni-muenchen.de.

3) The conference theme was advertised as »Peripeteias, catastrophies, happy endings: Turning points in Nordic literature«. We have decided to broaden this title to »Turning points in Nordic literature and culture« to make clear that we welcome papers and proposals from cultural studies, area studies, film studies, and history/art history. We supplied some examples of these in the call for papers – we are convinced that turning points are narrative constructions that can be applied productively in many different contexts, and that this will give us the opportunity to rethink what we mean by »peripeteias, catastrophies and happy endings«.

4) The schedule for the run-up to the conference remains unchanged:

• February 2025: We will inform you by email regarding the acceptance of your paper and panel proposals.
• March 2025: A preliminary programme will be published on the homepage.
• March – May 2025: Registration period. You will need to register within this time frame, and registration is binding. All information will be available on the homepage.
• 30 July – 2 August 2025: IASS conference in Munich.

General information on sightseeing and cultural activities in Munich and the surrounding area will also be provided on the homepage.

We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers and panels.

On behalf of the Munich organising team,

Joachim Schiedermair

Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Indigenous Environmental Justice Comparative Studies in Indigenous Literatures and Creative Arts from Northern Europe and North America

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The Seventh Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) is an online, transatlantic workshop and will take place from April 3 to 5, 2025. It is convened by Juliane Egerer (University of Augsburg, Germany), Hanna Mattila (Sámi allaskuvla/Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Kautokeino, Norway), and Tim Frandy (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada).

Theoretical framework

Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) are two closely related fields: The first explores complex intersections of ecological problems and social power structures connected to ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, national borders, and land entitlement, also focusing on, among others, hegemonic centrisms, ecological imperialism, speciesism, and environmental racism. The latter transcends Eurowestern definitions of Environmental Justice by insisting that Indigenous traditional knowledges, worldviews, epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and the agency of non-human beings, such as plants, animals, elements, minerals, spirit beings, and the land, are relevant for creating a future that includes living well with Earth.

Goals

Indigenous literatures and creative arts maintain numerous complex functions for Indigenous artists, as well as both outsider and insider audiences: raising awareness of ecological, social, and political issues; spawning the decolonizing changes of artivism in society; elevating certain cultural aesthetics and discourses; recontextualizing aspects of traditional culture to achieve ecological, social, and political goals; creating art products through which human and non-human community is formed and sustained; and so much more.

The workshop will focus on Indigenous literatures, creative arts, and expressive culture from Northern Europe (Sápmi) and North America (Turtle Island), especially the Indigenous peoples of the North. The emphasis is placed on Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Indigenous Environmental Justice, and on sociocultural, environmental, and political processes as modes of analyzing, interpreting, and reading. The workshop wishes to highlight the role of Indigenous literatures, creative arts, and expressive culture in processes of decolonization, and in nurturing balanced, respectful, reciprocal, and inclusive relationships between humans, various kinds of non-human beings, the land, and the environment.

In the workshop, we will explore the following questions, among others:

• How and to what ends do Indigenous creative arts navigate environmental problems and ongoing colonial power structures?
• How do they deal with relationships between humans, various kinds of non-human beings, and the environment?
• What strategies do they use to represent, imagine, express, and communicate insights into these complex issues and what effects do they achieve? How do they contribute to decolonization?
• How do audiences, writers, and artists relate to each other?
• What are the differences and similarities between various Indigenous literatures and creative arts regarding the aforementioned questions?

Call for proposals

The workshop invites presentations that combine approaches of Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Indigenous Environmental Justice within the fields of Indigenous and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies with a focus on the European and/or American North. Researchers from all career stages are encouraged to submit a paper proposal of up to 300 words and a brief bio of 100 words for a 20-minute paper to enscan.iej.project@gmail.com by November 30, 2024. The language of the workshop will be English. Scholars presenting papers at the workshop will have the opportunity to revise their papers into chapters for a peer-reviewed edited volume.

Workshop organizers If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers Juliane Egerer (juliane.egerer@uni-a.de), Hanna Kristiina Mattila (hannam@samas.no), and Tim Frandy (tim.frandy@ubc.ca).

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