November 12-June 24, 2027
Online
Running from October 2026 through summer 2027, the series brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore the relationships between borders, communities, cultures, and environments across historical periods and geographical contexts. We believe its interdisciplinary approach may be of interest to members working on cultural studies, environmental communication, migration, and questions of identity and belonging.
The full programme is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/programme?authuser=0
We would be grateful if you could circulate the programme for the series as a whole, allowing interested colleagues and students to discover upcoming sessions and follow the discussions throughout the year. I would be happy to provide a short announcement or any additional materials in your preferred format. Below, please find the programme of the seminar series:
12 November 2026
Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo (Pegaso University, Naples, Italy)
Sustainability and post-natal abortion in Medieval Iceland
19 November 2026
Afkir Nawar (Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco / Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Thresholds of Scarcity and Sanctity: Vernacular Ecological Knowledge, Liminal Figures, and Resource Governance in Tamazight Oral Folktales
26 November 2026
Sritama Maiti and Jenia Mukherje (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
‘Speaking with Nature’: Medicinal Legacies and Sustainable Futures at the Calcutta Botanic Garden
3 December 2026
Maria Isabel Lemos (IELT- Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Ecologies of Colonial Labour: Drought, Mobility, and Cacao Production between Cape Verde and São Tomé
10 December 2026
Shu Wan (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA)
Exclaiming “Long Live Chairman Mao!”: Propagating Acupuncture-Treating-Deafness in Socialist China
17 December 2026
Nikolai Belov (HSE University Moscow / Independent scholar)
Shared Shrines, Hardening Borders: Greek-Latin Confessional Boundaries in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
18 December 2026 – 6 January 2027 Winter Break
7 January 2027
Lois Stanford (New Mexico State University, USA)
Sustainability in El Rancho: Losing a Cuisine in the US-Mexico Borderlands
14 January 2027
Danila Kashkin (University of Geneva)
A Border Drawn by Drift: How Unsustainable Navigation Made Ogasawara Japanese
21 January 2027
Nikoleta Zampaki (University of Information Technology and Management - UITM, Poland)
Crossing Lines, Sustaining Worlds: Romani Ecologies Between Border, Literature and Performance in Greece
28 January 2027
Charlene Vella (University of Malta)
Crossing the Threshold: Processional Banners, Material Survival and the Borders of the Image in Renaissance Sicily
4 February 2027
Chet Van Duzer (University of Rochester / University of Western Australia)
Beyond the Edge: Negotiating Extreme Geography in Medieval and Early Modern Maps
11 February 2027
Nicholas R. Miller (East Tennessee State University, USA)
Where Borders Break: Rivers and the Making of Multispecies Worlds
18 February 2027
Sabine Moedersheim (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
“Verbrennt de Bode, wo du 'Heimet' nennsch“ (they burn the Land you call 'Home'): Poetry of the Transborder Anti-Nuclear Resistance in the Early German / French / Swiss Environmental Movements
25 February 2027
Lucia Groe (University of Calabria, Italy)
Beyond Greenwashing: Advancing Sustainability through “Mitakuyeability”, Environmental Memory, and Native Linguistic Ontologies
4 March 2027
Sreekishen Nair (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA)
Sharing the Painted Landscape: Ritual Almanacs and Civic Stewardship in Late Postclassic Mexico
11 March 2027
Munia Hweidi (Sophia University, Tokyo)
Building the Dam, Drowning the Village: Submerged Borders and Cultural Sustainability in Ishimure Michiko’s "Lake of Heaven"
18 March 2027
Ayushi Dhawan (Azim Premji University, Bhopal, India)
Waste, Value, and Environmental Risk at the Alang Shipbreaking Yards
23 March 2027
Aisling Reid and Valentina Surace (Queen’s University Belfast; University of Messina)
A LAND THAT IS NO LAND: Medieval Whale-Islands and Insular Geophilosophy
1 April 2027
Aleksandra Jakubczak (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin)
“We All Have to Eat Kosher”: Ritual Slaughter, Urban Provisioning, and Antisemitism in Interwar Poland
8 April 2027
Tobias Schank (Saarland University, Germany)
Unwriting the Ocean: Seascape Epistemology and the American Imaginary
15 April 2027
Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University, USA)
Palimpsests of Pluralism: Material Sustainability in Jain, Jewish, and Muslim Manuscript Cultures of Sindh and Gujarat
22 April 2027
Dalal Kassab-Kodissieh
AHTTEP ENSA Paris-La Villette
Entangled Frontiers and Resource Conflicts: Land, Water, and Offshore Energy in the Lebanon-Israel-Palestine Borderland (Antiquity-Present)
29 April 2027
Marusca Francini (University of Pavia, Italy)
Heaven and Earth: A Gothic ‘Heaven Above’? Gothic Ufarhiminakunds and its West and North Germanic Cognates
6 May 2027
Tatiana Sitchinava (Institute of Demography and Sociology, Ilia State University, Georgia)
Therapeutic Borderlands: Mineral Waters, Imperial Balneology, and the Sustainable Body in Georgia, c. 1870-1930
13 May 2027
Lydia Letsch (Austrian Institute for International Affairs - OIIP)
Caring under Precarious Conditions: Human-Environment Relations and Border Life in the Oasis of Figuig
20 May 2027
Elisa Ramazzina (Queen’s University Belfast)
Flickering Lights, Fire in the Sky: Apocalyptic Imaginaries, Borders, and Sustainability in Early Medieval Literature
27 May 2027
Jennifer A. Miller (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA)
The Unsustainable Borders of Nuclear Power in German Memory
3 June 2027
Anju Nofarof Hasudungan, R. Tuty Nur Mutia, and Zeffry Alkatiri (Universitas Indonesia)
Akit Indigenous Knowledge as Social-Ecological Infrastructure: Mangrove Conservation for Resilient Border Islands between Indonesia and Malaysia
10 June 2027
Betsey Price (Glendon College, York University, Toronto)
The Mansions of the Visigoths: Self-Sustainability Through Boundaries
17 June 2027
Eduardo de Melo Salgueiro (Federal University of Southern and Southeastern Pará, Brazil)
Jaborandi Exploitation, Unfree Labour, and Contested Sustainability in the Brazilian Amazon
24 June 2027
Hristo Hristozov (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Criss-Crossing Ecological Borders: Pastoral Mobility and the Socio-Natural Transformation of the Ottoman Balkans, 15th-17th Centuries
