Climate Crisis and Affect: A network for climate humanities and social sciences in and around Iceland
The Nordic House, 2.-4. May, 2025: Other-Grounds Film Festival is a multicultural, collaborative initiative exploring what it means to be human on Earth—and how we can build responsible, connected relationships with nature and each other. In the face of today’s overlapping crises—environmental, social, and ideological—we seek new ways to perceive, imagine, and relate to the world. Bringing together films, conversations, and diverse perspectives, the festival highlights knowledge systems that have often been silenced. It amplifies voices fighting for sustainability, the rights of nature, and a more-than-human future.
Þetta viðtal birtist á vef Háskóla Íslands 28. mars 2025: „Ég held að það sé tilhneiging innan ákveðinna hópa á Íslandi að trúa því að hlýnun jarðar sé ekkert svo alvarleg. Ég hef ákveðnar kenningar um hvers vegna svo sé en engin skýr svör enn þá,“ segir Ole Martin Sandberg, nýdoktor í heimspeki við Háskóla Íslands, og vísar þar til viðfangsefnis rannsóknar sinnar, „Áhrif hamfarahlýnunar á tilfinningalíf: Rannsókn á áhrifum loftslagsbreytinga á tilfinningar og hegðun fólks á Íslandi“. Rannsóknin snýst um áhrif hnattrænnar hlýnunar á Íslandi út frá félagslegu og heimspekilegu sjónarhorni.
The following interview was published on the University of Iceland's website on March 28, 2025: “I think there is a tendency in certain demographics in Iceland to believe that climate change is not that serious. I have some theories about why that is, but no definite answers yet,” says Ole Martin Sandberg, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iceland, about his research project “Climate Crisis and Affect: An Investigation of Embodied Emotions and Behaviours Regarding Climate Change in Iceland”. His research focuses on the effects of climate change in Iceland as seen from a social and philosophical perspective.
Tuesday 25. March2025 12.00-13.00 in Árnagarður 101, University of Iceland. David Garcimartín from the at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, explores the philosophical significance of the concept of climate, emphasizing its historical, cultural, and imaginative dimensions.
