Academic Centre
The BALTEHUMS II conference program, as well as the registration link is available here.
The conference is organised by KAJAK Centre for Environmental History, Tallinn University (Estonia). Due to the current Covid-19 situation, the conference will be held online. The working language of the conference is English. Anyone interested in the topics of environmental humanities is welcome to attend the conference, there is no registration fee.
This will be the second BALTEHUMS conference (BALTEHUMS II). The first conference took place in 2018 in Riga, Latvia, bringing together almost 100 participants from all over the Baltics. The BALTEHUMS conference aims to stimulate discussion and exchange of ideas between researchers from different disciplines interested in the field of environmental humanities.
Presentations of NATURED team included in the conference program:
- Protection of ethnographic landscapes in Soviet Latvia: The case of Gauja National Park (Karīna Ješkina)
- Spaces of post-nature: Reterritorialization of wetlands (Anita Zariņa, Ivo Vinogradovs)
- Conflicts of values and ecological solidarity: The case of Kemeri National Park (Artis Svece, Anita Zariņa)
- Political space, abjected matter: Living with wildlife in post-Soviet spaces (Anne Sauka)
- Nature in discourse: Exposing normativity haunted by the spectre if the unnatural (Igors Gubenko)
 will be held online. Participants of the NATURED project will also take part in the conference by giving several presentations. ){kind=link}