Keynotes

Alexa Weik Von Mossner

Alexa Weik Von Mossner

Alexa Weik Von Mossner is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt. Her research explores contemporary environmental culture from a cognitive perspective with a focus on affect and emotion. She has a specific interest in climate change narratives across media.

She is currently researching on the project “Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene” (2020-2023) at the University of the Balearic Islands. She's also an international partner for the research project “Literature and Reading in the Age of Environmental Crisis” (2021-2024), directed by Toni Lahtinen at the University of Helsinki. Most recently, she joined the FWF project “Delocating Mountains: Cinematic Landscapes and the Alpine Model” (2020-2024) at the University of Innsbruck. She is a member of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) Advisory Board and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Environmental Media and Media+Environment.

She has recently published Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination (University of Texas Press, 2014) and Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion and Environmental Narrative (Ohio State University Press, 2017).

Adrian Ivakhiv

Adrian Ivakhiv

Adrian Ivakhiv is a Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the University of Vermont, with a joint appointment in the Environmental Program and the Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources. He is a UVM University Scholar (2019-20) and Public Humanities Fellow, and from 2016 to 2020 held the Steven Rubenstein Professorship for Environment and Natural Resources. He founded and co-leads the EcoCultureLab, which organizes collaborative engagements between ecologically oriented artists, scientists, humanists, and the broader community. He is spending 2022-23 in Berlin as a Fulbright Scholar and Research Fellow of the Freie Universität Berlin’s Cinepoetics Centre for Advanced Film Studies.

His research and teaching is focused at the intersections of ecology, culture, identity, religion, media, and the creative arts.

His books include Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, and Nature (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013) and Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times (Punctum Books, 2018). Prof. Ivakhiv is founding co-editor of the international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal Media+Environment, and on the editorial boards of several journals.

His current projects include a book entitled The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in a More-than-Human World, a book on the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion and the philosophy of time, the co-edited Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, and an anthology of writings on spiritual practice.

Tim Waterman

Tim Waterman

Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is Chair of the Landscape Research Group (LRG), a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield, and an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is also a former Vice-President of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). He is the author of Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture, now in its second edition and translated into several languages, and, with Ed Wall, Urban Design, also translated into several languages. He has recently edited three collections: Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays with Ed Wall, the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food with Joshua Zeunert, and Landscape Citizenships with Jane Wolff and Ed Wall. His most recent book is The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design (2022). His writing has appeared in a variety of journals including the Journal of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM). His brother is the prominent experimental musician, writer, and producer Alex Waterman.

Tim Waterman's research explores the interconnections between food, taste, place, and democratic civil society. His research addresses imaginaries: moral, political, social, ecological, radical, and utopian. This forms the basis for explorations of power and democracy and their shaping of public space and public life; taste, etiquette, customs, belief and ritual; and foodways in community and civic life and landscape.

He has been a co-convener of various conferences and symposia. He serves as a peer reviewer for the journal Landscape Research, the Journal of Architecture, and for the publishers Routledge, Bloomsbury, Oxford University Press, and the Open Library for the Humanities.

Antonio López

Antonio López

Antonio López, PhD, is a leading international specialist of media literacy education. With a research focus on bridging sustainability with media literacy, he is currently one of the top global experts in the field of ecomedia literacy. As an authority in media literacy, he is regularly interviewed in the media about “fake news” (including on NPR and BBC). He has written three books, Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the 21st Century (Peter Lang, 2008), The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice (Evolver Editions, 2012), and Greening Media Education (Peter Lang, 2014). He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters about media education, youth media and ecomedia literacy. He teaches Introduction to Visual Communication, Writing Across the Media, Media Culture and Society, Digital Media Culture, Media and the Environment, Ecocinema, Writing Across the Media, Advanced Media Theory, and Senior Capstone Project.