Liminal Waterway Countercultures
liminalwater.bsky.social
Liminal Waterway Countercultures
@liminalwater.bsky.social
A humanities project about liminal waterscapes in Europe, producing digital and museum resources to retrieve submerged narratives of resistance.
#BlueHumanities #BlueSocialSciences #EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoCriticism #CoastalHistory #DigitalHumanties
Fragments d'un littoral ouvrier : de l'industrie aux habitats informels a l'Estaque, Marseille (années 1970)
Giulia Buffoli from our @univ-amu.fr team, presenting this week in Normandy at the brilliant Coastline in motion workshop.
@telemme.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Day 2 of “Knowkedge Exchange for Slow Hope”. Here’s Tea and Jelena about to star in the methods café…
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And here’s Jelena Lalatović presenting our theory of change to the conference
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We’re untangling our #LiminalWater theory of change as part of a training session at #KnowledgeExchangeForSlowHope
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Here’s a snippet of our PI @bengidley.bsky.social speed-introducing #LiminalWater
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
So many wonderful projects but here we showcase four that resonate most with ours: #CoastARTS, #HomeInCrisis, #Ruralex and #TiCToC
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Cool to hear about the other projects in this programme. Here’s some maps @jennywustenberg.bsky.social shared (it was nice to hear LiminalWater singled out for being in so many places on the map)!
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Many of our team are in Nottingham for “Knowkedge Exchange for Slow Hope” as part of the HERA-CHANSE Crisis – Perspectives from the Humanities programme. Fantastic welcoming talk by @jennywustenberg.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Our Portuguese PI, Raquel Gil Carvalheira, with seashells from the maritime museum at Ílhavo.
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Our central European and Balkan research teams, along with our fantastic partners from Akademie Graz and the Rijeka maritime museum, had a very productive workshop in Graz this week.
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Even more splendid photos of Professor Car representing us in Vienna
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Our Croatian PI, Professor Milka Car, is presenting our project in imperially splendid Vienna today.
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Happy to share that our Zagreb team member Jelena Lalatovic will be presenting some of the research she has been doing on the project at the Latin American Studies Association Congress #LASA2026 next year in Paris, in a panel on periodical countercultures.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
From our Croatian team on the Adriatic
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Activists of @eausecours.bsky.social mourning lakes lost to mining yesterday in Ottawa by the parliament, observed by our PI @bengidley.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Greetings from the fieldwork in southern Portugal
October 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Where our team members are today. (Full points to anyone who can name all the locations.)
October 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We took a bit of time out to check out the Laure Prouvost exhibition at Mucem, which resonated a lot with our project themes.
October 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Laura also taught us how to make cynotypes, which use sun and water to make beautiful blue images.
October 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Laura Harris, @uosmedia.bsky.social, led our workshop on visual methods.
October 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Our Portuguese associate partner is the NGO Sciaena @sciaena-ngo.bsky.social. Valentina presented their wonderful project Mulheres da Ria

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October 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Our opening session, led by our Austrian team leader Yvonne Zivkovic, focused on the intersection between Blue Humanities and ecocriticism
October 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
First, our amazing meeting venue, chez our associate partners the Mucem, France’s national museum of the Mediterranean…
October 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We are starting our second team meeting this morning. Expect more pictures.
October 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Our Austrian PI, Yvonne Zivkovic, is presenting about LiminalWater tomorrow morning, as part of a panel on fluid materialities.
September 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM