The last seminar in the series will address literature and perspectives on sustainability as well as research funding in relation to environmental humanities.

BLUE HUMANITIES AND FORMAS: THE FUNDING OF RESEARCH ON THE ENVIRONMENT

In the first hour, Barbara Barrow will examine how two works of nineteenth-century literature and art turn to the shore to understand the entanglement of the human with coastal life. In a time of rising sea levels and endangered coastal communities, how can literature and art about the shore invite us to think more sustainably?

In the second hour, Anna Kaijser, senior research officer at Formas’ Department for Environment, and Sylvia Schwaag Serger, former Deputy Vice-Chancellor at LU and chair of the Formas’ research committee, will talk to us about applying for funding in relation to environmental humanities. 

Students and staff at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology are all welcome to join any or all seminars in the series. The seminar series is a genuine attempt to mobilise the humanities and theology in Lund, which draws on and connects already well-established and on-going research on the environment. The researchers it presents and expects to take an interest in the seminars range from senior professors to the next generation of researchers and students with a profound interest in environmental humanities.