CONFERENCE
At the conference, Paula Lūcija Lejiņa, together with philosopher Aurēlija Džordana Auzere, presented the research paper “Affect and Space: Eerie Meetings at Wetland Borders.” The study explores Baltic wetlands and mires as locally significant transitional spaces that enable direct, non-commercial human–water relations. By mapping meanings and attitudes characteristic of Latvia and, more broadly, Western contexts, the research presents the mire as an affective and ecologically rich entanglement of humans and other-than-human beings, revealing tensions with increasingly prevalent strategies of control, including detached practices of drainage. Extending Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy through perspectives from hydrofeminism and human geography, the study calls for living with the uncomfortable and the eerie and for cultivating greater sensitivity towards more-than-human forms of existence.
Conference programm is available here
Book of abstracts is available here
