Monography profile

The international interdisciplinary scientific conference Areas of Ecopoetics — organized as part of the Broadening of Poetics conference series — took place on 24th and 25th of October 2022, both in person and online. The event was realized on the basis of an international agreement to promote cooperation in scientific research between the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Polish Literature of the University of Warsaw. The event was organized by Ewa Szczęsna, Weronika Lipszyc and Anna Tenczyńska within the University of Warsaw and Bogumiła Suwara within the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Due to its international character, two individual panels were held simultaneously during both days of the conference. The aim of the conference was to explore ecopoetics as a tool providing insight into the relationship between humans and nature, or between humans and other living and non-living entities. That ecopoetics is an interdisciplinary concept used in different discourses — whether it be artistic, media or scientific — can ultimately be seen in the example of poetry highlighting the destructive impact of humans on the environment where the scope of ecopoetics largely exceeds human sciences, as in the case of bioethical questions that are often raised in the context of posthumanism.