Foundations and Fluidity
20th Anniversary Conference of the
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC)
October 10-14, 2026 | Casa Artom, Venice, Italy
Extended Deadline for Proposals | 25 March 2026
Foundations and Fluidity will mark the 20th anniversary of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC)—a milestone not only for the Society but also for the emerging field of Religion and Nature/Ecology. Over the past two decades, this field has matured into a vibrant area of interdisciplinary scholarship, with several graduate programs now training researchers and scholars. Our conferences provide essential spaces for these scholars to collaborate, build networks, and workshop their research.
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Conference Details & Registration
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone in October of 2026 at our next ISSRNC conference, which will take place at Casa Artom in Venice, Italy.
Registration details coming soon…
The application for 2026 ISSRNC Travel Grants will open in mid-April, once conference acceptance decisions have been communicated.
Keynote Speakers
 Photo credit: Sara Penrhyn Jones |
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| Catherine (Kate) Rigby Director, Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities University of Cologne |
Dr. Kate Rigby (Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities) is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Cologne, where she leads a research hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities, and visiting scholar in the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University. Her research lies at the intersection of environmental literary, philosophical, historical and religious studies, with a specialist interest in European Romanticism, ecopoetics, multispecies studies, disaster studies, and Australian studies. She was the inaugural President of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Australia-New Zealand), and the founding Director of the
Australia-Pacific Forum on Religion and Ecology. A founding co-editor of the journal Philosophy Activism Nature, she also co-edited the University Press of Virginia series, Under the Sign of Nature, and her books include Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004), Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times (2015), Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization (2020) and Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction (2023).
