Interview with Elisabeth Wennerström: Wolf Talks in Sweden

Wolves can’t talk, can they? Or can they? In this interview, Elisabeth tells us about how this conversation is organised through the Wolf Talks exhibition in Uppsala, Sweden.

Read the interview with Elisabeth Wennerström here

Interview with Soraya Poulin and Coralie Gourguechon -AiR artists talk about their residency experiences

As Mistra-EC's artist-in-residence (AiR) program in Prague and Uppsala is coming to a close, AiR artists Soraya and Coralie tell us about their residency works and experiences.

Read the interview with Soraya and Coralie here

New AiR Call Launched

Open call has been launched for an artist-in-residence (AiR) at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) in Australia in 2023! Deadline for applications is 30 November 2022.

Click to view the open call

Silencing/Unsilencing Nature: A ‘Lupocentric’ Remediation of Animal-Nature Relationships

The article by Nico Carpentier, titled Silencing/Unsilencing Nature: A ‘Lupocentric’ Remediation of Animal-Nature Relationships (open access) has been published in the Central European Journal of Communication.

Facebook Groups in Sweden Constructing Sustainability: Resisting Hegemonic Anthropocentrism

The article by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier, titled Facebook Groups in Sweden Constructing Sustainability: Resisting Hegemonic Anthropocentrism (open access) has been published in the Central European Journal of Communication.

Mediating Change and Changing Media: Dimensions and Perspectives

The article by Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier, and Michal Glowacki, titled Mediating Change and Changing Media: Dimensions and Perspectives (open access) has been published in the Central European Journal of Communication.

First forced displacements, then slaughter”: Discursive regulations of nature by the state and Sami in a Swedish TV documentary

The article by Kirill Filimonov and Nico Carpentier, titled First forced displacements, then slaughter”: Discursive regulations of nature by the state and Sami in a Swedish TV documentary has been published in the Journal of Language and Politics.

"How is he entitled to say this?": Constructing the identities of experts, ordinary people and presenters in Swedish TV series on climate change

The article by Kirill Filimonov and Nico Carpentier, titled "How is he entitled to say this?": Constructing the identities of experts, ordinary people and presenters in Swedish TV series on climate change (open access) has been published in the Nordicom Review.

Events: Wolf Talks in Sweden

The Wolf Talks exhibition is visiting Uppsala, Sweden, during October 24-November 5, 2022!

Wolf Talks is an arts-based research project created by Nico Carpentier, questioning the power dynamics of the discursive-material relationships between human and non-human animals. The exhibition is an invitation to go on a Wolf Walk, and visit the 12 wolf-and-cat-face collage photographs, located at 12 different places in Uppsala, guided by the event website. On each location, visitors can listen to a Wolf Talks sound fragment, where a wolf will talk to them! And they can talk back too!

Read more about the event here

Past Events: WP5 Panel: Environmental struggles in Swedish audio-visual media

Organised on October 24, 2022, during Mistra-EC Programme Meeting, the panel presented a series of case study analyses of Swedish TV programmes and documentaries that address environmental issues. A special focus was on the ideological struggles around the environment and human-nature relations as they are presented in the analysed case studies, and their mapping, through an ideological map of environmental communication presented at the session.

Past Events: Mediating Change, Changing Media: Special Issue Launch Party

The publication of Central European Journal of Communication (CEJC)’s special issue on Mediating Change, Changing Media was celebrated with a reception on October 21, 2022, during the 9th European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Conference in Aarhus, Denmark.

The special issue, edited by Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier, and Michal Glowacki, includes two articles by Mistra-EC WP5 researchers. Click here to read the CEJC Special Issue (open access).

Read more about the event here

Past Events: WP5 Unconference: Conflict, Environment and Sustainability: Transdisciplinary Interrogations

Bringing together academicians, activists, artists, and peace-builders for a transdisciplinary discussion, the event focussed on the often under-represented interconnections between conflict, environment, and sustainability, and explored how media and arts can be studied, and used, to document and communicate these interconnections in a way to bridge conflict transformation and environmental action.

Read more about the event here

Film Screening and Director Talks: Environmental Communication and Change

The two films, "Conceptualization of Change" and "New Modes of Environmental Communication: Four Street Art Experiments” produced as part of Mistra Environmental Communication research at the Charles University in Prague, were screened at Uppsala, Sweden on October 25, 2022, during Mistra-EC Programme Meeting.

The screenings were followed by the talks of directors Kristýna Kopřivová, and Ali Minanto. After the director talks, a discussion was generated with the audience through Q&A, about the two films and the role of academia-art collaborations in communicating environmental issues and change.

Click here for more information, and photos from the event.

"Conceptualization of Change" and "New Forms of Environmental Communication" presented at IAMCR 2022

The two films were presented at the Flow 34 of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2022 Conference, which was held online from 11 to 15 July, 2022. The films were also screened during the IAMCR Watch Party, organised at Charles University in Prague on 22 July 2022.

Read more about the two films here

New Video: Power and Gardens

“Power and Gardens” is a four-part video essay by Nico Carpentier that investigates how human-nature relationships are condensed in the gardens of the European cities of Paris, Lyon and Prague. Driven by a discursive-material analysis, the essay is a reflection on how gardens are locations where nature is tamed, and how they often perform an anthropocentric ideology that is strengthened by a series of other discourses, such as capitalism and colonialism.

Read more about "Power and Gardens" here

AiR News: Urban Bird in Prague

Urban Bird is a project developed by Soraya Poulin, during her artist residency in Prague in September-October 2022, in collaboration with MISTRA-EC researchers at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at Charles University.

The visual project explores the relationship between humans and nature (and more particularly birds) in the city, and their various power dynamics, through a collage of paintings, photography and drawings.

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AiR News: AiR@SLU presentation in Uppsala, Sweden

AiR@SLU artist Coralie Gourguechon presented her residency project during Mistra-EC Programme Meeting in Uppsala, on October 25, 2022.

Coralie's project, carried out in dialogical exchange with Mistra-EC associates at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), aims to create tools for communication about the impact of electronic consumption on the environment, and improve the collective dialogue about the future of electronic production.

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Presentations/Talks

You can view the recent presentations and talks made by WP5 researchers here.