From 24 July until 31 July, I curated the summer session of one of the ten circles at the Nordic Summer University (NSU), namely Circle 5: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices With/In A More-than-Human World. This […]
Category: Baltic stories
Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
Listening with Saulkrasti: An Ecotone of Self
Dear Source, I feel like fragmented messages in a bottle, scribbled drunkenly after dancing under the full Buck moon. After drifting in the Baltic sea for what seems like many moons, I’ve finally arrived and […]
Two wood wide web scholarships for two BIPOC scholars, artists, designers and other care givers to join Eco+tones symposium in Latvia, 24-31 July
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 […]
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 […]