MYTH, ECOLOGY & FEMINISM IN GREEK AND DANISH LITERATURE

Occasioned by the recent publication in Greek of Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen’s The Sea Letters (Αλληλογραφία δύο θαλασσών, trans. Trine Stauning Willert, Mov Skiouros Publications, 2025), this event brings together Greek and Danish writers, translators, critics and readers to explore the role of myth and the power of fiction in the face of the climate crisis.

In The Sea Letters, the Atlantic and Mediterranean are imagined as two sister seas exchanging intimate letters about life, humanity, climate change and the fate of the planet. Blending myth and ecological imagination, the novel makes the seas its protagonists, while placing humanity within a much larger story.

An important contribution to the Scandinavian tradition of ecofeminist literature, The Sea Letters also reflects a growing interest among younger Danish writers in Greek mythology as a way of exploring questions of nature, gender, power and our relationship with the planet and the more-than-human world.

The Greek publication of Jacobsen’s book offers an opportunity to consider how myth, ecology and feminism are being explored in contemporary Greek and Danish literature.

18.30: Welcome

18:40: Introduction by translator Trine Stauning Willert

18.500: Thalassini Bost reading from Greek translation of The Sea Letters

19.00: Mov Skiouros Publications about publishing The Sea Letters

19.10: Author Rena Luna about The Sea Letters and feminism 

19.20: Author Amanda Michalopoulou about The Sea Letters and climate crisis in fiction

19.30: Author Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen on imagining the voice of the seas

19.45: Moderated discussion about (eco)feminism and climate crisis in literature