Liquidscapes 2018 - Liquidscapes: tales and tellings of watery worlds and fluid states

Ecologies of water
Water and warfare
Drought and flood
Water politics
Borders
Water as power
Philosophy
Edgelands
Drawn to the sea
The phenomenological sea; the phenomenological river
Poetics of river science
The romantic sea; the sublime sea
Mythologies of the sea and half-human creatures
Human relationships with dolphins and other sea mammals
Drawn to the sea
Swimming as meditation
Swimming as creative act
Swimming and a changed relationship to nature
Visual narratives of water
Hydrophonics: what can we learn from the sounds of water?
Poetics of water in Islam and other ancient cultures
Dyeing, bleaching and printing
Humanities and Sciences
Environmental hazard
Water on other planets
Water health as an indicator of planetary health
Aridity and arid cultures
Drought and flood
Monsoon
Languages of rain in rainy climates
Sea roads and cultural interchange
Mapping and navigation
Flow, current, tide
Poetics of river science
Cross-cutting themes
Languages of rain in rainy climates
Environmental hazard
Swimming, sailing and extreme endurance
Osmosis
Incursion
Flow, current, tide
Calling rain: mysticism of the rain dance
suspensions / solutions and other modes of combination in liquid
changing states: solid to liquid, liquid to gas etc. Also as metaphor
liquidity in economic systems
water as metaphor