We have been working hard, as volunteers, for the fourth symposium of our NSU circle, called: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices With/In A More-than-human World. This blogpost presents the first line-up of the Wonderfull people […]
Category: Baltic stories
Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
A Million Songs: How Latvian Folk Songs Preserved a More-than-human Mythology
This blogpost is part of a documentation of a lecture by Kārlis Lakševics, a researcher and lecturer at the University of Latvia, during the NSU winter symposium on Eco+Mythology. This blogpost follows Rivers, Folk Songs, […]
Rivers, Folk Songs, and the More-Than-Human World: Exploring Latvian Ecomythology
Our summer symposium 2026 will take place in Latvia. Therefore, during our NSU circle winter symposium on Eco-mythology (17-18 January 2026), Kārlis Lakševics, a lecturer at the University of Latvia, shared ideas what an Eco-mythology […]
Join us this summer in enchanting Latvia
Hosted by the Nordic Summer University Study Circle 5: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices with/in the More-than-Human World In hyperindividualised societies most of us are trained into super-autonomy and lose capacities to care for self, […]
A Fishbowl with Baltic Sea Critters
The Baltic Sea is full of ironies. The more I engage with it, through practice, theory, and fiction, the more I realize how little I truly know, and how much there is still to learn […]
Three days of Autumn Equinox in the last pagan country of Europe
Day equals night – night equals day. As the duration of the sun’s radiance in the sky shortens, we will descend again in the circle of the year… Traditionally, on September 20 (Saturday), in the […]
Flowing with Eglė: Lithuania, Jewish Roots, and Entangled Layers of Uprooting
In Vilnius, I joined a guided walk into a hidden courtyard in the old Jewish district. I would never have found it alone. There stood a statue, placed there in 1987, tucked away where memory […]
Flowing with Eglė: Ash, Blood, Passover, Sacrifice
As aforementioned, this spring and summer, we are combining the method of Writing (with) plants with the Flowing with Eglė – Project, where we create a new eco-myth. In this old myth, different human characters […]
Flowing with Eglė: Encountering the Oak Prince in a Danish Castle Estate
During the spring equinox weekend, I had the pleasure of staying at Sandholt Slot, a centuries-old castle on the Isle of Fyn. The day before, I was in Copenhagen where the plants creeping on the […]
Flowing with Eglė : Birch, her lover, her fantasy, her carnival mask
Today, I facilitated another Writing(with)Plants session, this time inviting the presence of the birch tree. During the creative writing segment, I found myself exploring who Birch might have been before transforming into a tree, inspired […]