[Commlist] CFP workshop “Communicating Seasons: Texts, Cultures, & Climates”

Reminder: CfP for the Workshop “Communicating Seasons: Texts, Cultures, 
& Climates”
Dates: Nov. 17 to Nov. 18, 2025.
Location: The Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies (AIAS) at Aarhus 
University, Denmark.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers working with 
seasonality and communication from within the environmental humanities, 
environmental communication, climate science, journalism research and 
practice, literary studies, art history, and other fields. The aim is to 
inspire discussions about the changing cultural, political, and 
scientific significance of seasons. This will, we hope, stimulate new 
ways of thinking and communicating about climate change. Based on these 
dialogues, we aim to work towards an anthology titled Communicating Seasons.

This workshop brings together researchers exploring seasonality and 
communication across different fields, including environmental 
humanities, environmental communication, climate science, journalism 
studies and practice, literary studies, art history, and related 
disciplines. Our goal is to inspire dialogue on the evolving cultural, 
political, and scientific meanings of the seasons. Through these 
conversations, we hope to spark fresh perspectives on how climate change 
is understood and communicated. Building on these exchanges, we plan to 
develop an anthology titled Communicating Seasons.

Confirmed Speakers:

Michelle Bastian (University of Edinburgh), philosopher and senior 
lecturer in environmental humanities.

Mark Schapiro, an experienced and award-winning environmental journalist.

Sarah Dimick (Northwestern University), literary scholar and assistant 
professor.

Linden Ashcroft (University of Melbourne), senior lecturer in climate 
science.

There is no participation fee.

We encourage participants to attend in person, as this creates more 
engaging and productive discussions. If in-person attendance is not 
feasible, we will take that into account when reviewing expressions of 
interest.

If you are interested in participating, please send a brief description 
(maximum 250 words) outlining your interest in the intersections of 
seasons and communication to both organizers:

Henrik Bødker ((hb /at/ cc.au.dk))
Sandra Simonsen ((ssimonsen /at/ cc.au.dk))

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Important Dates:

Deadline for expressions of interest: August 1, 2025
Answer from organizers: August 15, 2025
Workshop: November 17-18, 2025

More information will be available at 
https://projects.au.dk/seasonal-journalism as we get closer to the event.

The workshop is co-organized and co-sponsored by the research project 
Seasonal Journalism as Vernacular Phenology and the research programme 
Environmental Media & Aesthetics.
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