{"id":2830,"date":"2025-09-23T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/?post_type=events&#038;p=2830"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:57:11","slug":"symposium-thinking-with-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/events\/symposium-thinking-with-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium: Thinking with the Sea \u2013\u202fInteractions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/Thinking-with-the-sea-cover-2-web-1024x465.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/Thinking-with-the-sea-cover-2-web-1024x465.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/Thinking-with-the-sea-cover-2-web-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/Thinking-with-the-sea-cover-2-web-768x349.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/Thinking-with-the-sea-cover-2-web-1536x698.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/Thinking-with-the-sea-cover-2-web.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-045e5e8034c26123454092cb5070e9be\">Thinking with the Sea \u2013\u202fInteractions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">30.9<em>\u2013<\/em>1.10.2026<br>Forum Marinum, Linnankatu 72, Turku<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The symposium <em>Thinking with the Sea \u2013 Interactions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities<\/em> brings together researchers with different scholarly perspectives and approaches to the interactions between humans and seas, lakes, and other water features \u2014 both historically and in the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The&nbsp;symposium is organized by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abo.fi\/en\/institute-of-maritime-history\/\">Institute of Maritime History<\/a> at \u00c5bo Akademi University, the Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science (SOS), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abo.fi\/en\/study-subject\/literature\/\">Comparative Literature at \u00c5bo Akademi University<\/a>. The languages of the symposium are Swedish and English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Confirmed Keynote speakers:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/profile\/sabineho\">Sabine H\u00f6hler<\/a>, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) \/\/ Co-director, Centre for Anthropocene History, KTH&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/researchprofiles.ku.dk\/en\/persons\/s%C3%B8ren-frank-2\">S\u00f8ren Frank<\/a>, Professor of Danish and Nordic Literature, University of Copenhagen&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">More information about the call for abstracts, registration, and the program is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abo.fi\/en\/institute-of-maritime-history\/thinking-with-the-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">symposium website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking with the Sea \u2013\u202fInteractions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities 30.9\u20131.10.2026Forum Marinum, Linnankatu 72, Turku The symposium Thinking with the Sea \u2013 Interactions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities brings together researchers with different scholarly perspectives and approaches to the interactions between humans and seas, lakes, and other water features&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2835,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":2830,"sv":2837},"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/Thinking-with-the-sea-cover-2-web-featured-image-1024x671.jpg",1024,671,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}