The panel “Archived Nature” (Panel P28) at the ISFNR 2026 conference
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Join us for the 2026 interim ISFNR conference!
We are delighted to announce our panel “Archived Nature” (P28), which takes place on June 13–16, 2026, in Reykjavík, Iceland, as part of the interim ISFNR conference!
This panel explores how folk narratives reflect and shape understandings of nature and archives, viewed through both traditional and digital lenses. Drawing on posthumanist, ecological, and ontological approaches, we ask how stories mediate memory, environment, and human–nonhuman relations.
Key topics include:
* How nature is represented, perceived, and preserved in folk narratives and oral traditions.
* Archives as active agents in shaping ecological and cultural meaning.
* The role of digital archives in tracing themes such as climate, catastrophe, landscape, and kinship across large corpora.
* Posthumanist and ontological perspectives on cultural memory and human–nonhuman entanglements.
* Folklore as a medium that challenges binaries between the natural and supernatural, material and spiritual, human and animal.
We warmly welcome contributions combining folklore, archival studies, and digital methodologies to examine how narratives of nature are transmitted, stored, and reimagined across time.
Convenors:
Liina Saarlo (Estonian Literary Museum)
Rita Zara (Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia)
Olha Petrovych (Estonian Literary Museum)
More info & submission:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/isfnr2026/p/17203
Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2025
Don’t miss this opportunity to join this panel in Reykjavík for a rich exchange of ideas!
We are delighted to announce our panel “Archived Nature” (P28), which takes place on June 13–16, 2026, in Reykjavík, Iceland, as part of the interim ISFNR conference!
This panel explores how folk narratives reflect and shape understandings of nature and archives, viewed through both traditional and digital lenses. Drawing on posthumanist, ecological, and ontological approaches, we ask how stories mediate memory, environment, and human–nonhuman relations.
Key topics include:
* How nature is represented, perceived, and preserved in folk narratives and oral traditions.
* Archives as active agents in shaping ecological and cultural meaning.
* The role of digital archives in tracing themes such as climate, catastrophe, landscape, and kinship across large corpora.
* Posthumanist and ontological perspectives on cultural memory and human–nonhuman entanglements.
* Folklore as a medium that challenges binaries between the natural and supernatural, material and spiritual, human and animal.
We warmly welcome contributions combining folklore, archival studies, and digital methodologies to examine how narratives of nature are transmitted, stored, and reimagined across time.
Convenors:
Liina Saarlo (Estonian Literary Museum)
Rita Zara (Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia)
Olha Petrovych (Estonian Literary Museum)
More info & submission:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/isfnr2026/p/17203
Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2025
Don’t miss this opportunity to join this panel in Reykjavík for a rich exchange of ideas!
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Where is it happening?
Island/Reykjavík, Ármúli 9, 108 Reykjavíkurborg, Ísland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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