[Commlist] Call for Papers for the Workshop “Communicating Seasons: Texts, Cultures, & Climates”

Call for Papers for the Workshop “Communicating Seasons: Texts, 
Cultures, & Climates”

Time: From the morning of Nov. 17 to lunch, Nov. 18, 2025.
Venue: The Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies (AIAS) at Aarhus 
University, Denmark.

The 1.5-day workshop aims to bring together approximately 25 people 
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 goal is to foster 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.

There is no participation fee.

Confirmed Speakers:

Michelle Bastian (University of Edinburgh), philosopher and senior 
lecturer in environmental humanities, who has pioneered research on 
climate change, temporality, and phenology. Bastian will speak in person 
about the connections between phenology, seasons, and climate change.

Mark Schapiro, an experienced and award-winning environmental 
journalist, who, in addition to important journalistic work, teaches 
science and “earth journalism” at the UC Berkeley journalism school. 
Schapiro will speak (online) about his experiences reporting on seasonal 
patterns and how seasonality can be integrated into journalism education.

Sarah Dimick (Northwestern University), literary scholar and assistant 
professor, who in 2024 published Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global 
Literatures (Columbia University Press). Dimick will speak (online) 
about forms of seasonal texts in literature.

Linden Ashcroft (University of Melbourne), senior lecturer in climate 
science (“Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences”). Ashcroft will 
speak (online) about how seasons are worked with in climate science and 
how that relates to vernacular understandings of seasons.

We expect, to the extent possible, that participants attend in person. 
This makes for a more engaging and productive dialogue. If in-person 
attendance is not possible, we will take that into consideration when 
reviewing expressions of interest.

If you are interested in participating, please send a short description 
(max. 250 words) of your interest in issues related to 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

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

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