Digital Forest Ecologies in Modern Greek Literature

Digital Forest Ecologies in Modern Greek Literature (19th - 20th ce.) aims to explore how the forest textual world is augmented into interactive digital forest environments with the use of digital tools such as Voyant, Juncture, and so forth, addressing potential implications and future research in Digital Environmental Humanities.  

Dr Nikoleta Zampaki will be joining online from Greece to present her work and invite participants to explore open access digital tools on their own by working on literary texts and photos. We invite our colleagues and Collaboratory members form Melbourne to join in person, and international guest online.   

In these seminars, we invite both presenters and participants to seed actions grounded in sharing and reciprocity, to build community amongst our widely distributed, asynchronous and multiple place-based network. Participants will be invited to share what is made in the seminar on the Critical Forest Studies website: https://www.criticalforestlab.com/ 

Location:

Online event via Microsoft Teams. Melbourne-based participants can opt to join in together at an RMIT location. Details will be sent to registered participants.

About the presenter:

Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Philology of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece and Adjunct Lecturer at the Faculty of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management, University of the Peloponnese in Greece. She earned her PhD in Modern Greek Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. She was Instructor at the Utah University in the U.S.A. She is author of the monograph titled The Biocosmic Perception of the Poet. Nature and Body in Walt Whitman and Angelos Sikelianos’ works (Athens: Sokoli Publications, 2023, in Greek) and co-edited with Professor Peggy Karpouzou the edition titled Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art. Towards Theory and Practice (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023). She is Associate and Managing Editor at the scientific journal Ecokritike and current member of the Education Team of V.I.N.E. at Glenn Research Center of NASA. She is Series Editor of the “Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities. Past, Present and Future Econarratives” at University of Exeter Press and co-Editor of the book series “Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures” at Rowman & Littlefield. Her disciplines are the Environmental Humanities, Posthumanities, Comparative Literature and Digital Humanities.  

About Critical Forest Studies Collaboratory

The Collaboratory looks to seed new connections by bridging fields of research and practice in the environmental humanities, education, and social sciences; environmental arts, regenerative design, and urban planning; and environmental/earth system sciences. We are a vibrant interdisciplinary community with the shared aim of establishing ‘critical forest studies’ as a collective platform for cultivating:

1. new collaborations across the humanities, arts/design, social and natural sciences
2. new reciprocities with diverse stakeholders, institutions, and communities
3. new ways of sharing and circulating knowledge with diverse publics

Respectful and responsible engagements with Indigenous perspectives and knowledges are central to the work of the Collaboratory, as are questions of how intergenerational relations with forests produce and perpetuate different histories and futurities. Child, youth, and community framed practices of co-creation form a shared commitment to reciprocal exchange and collective experimentation for many members of the collective.

Critical Forests Collaboratory is affiliated with RMIT University's Centre for Urban Research: https://cur.org.au