14th Biennial MESEA Conference - June 11-13 2026

14th Biennial MESEA Conference

(MESEA-The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas)
Cultural Environments: Spheres, Ethnicity, Corporeality

June 11-13, 2026

Ionian University
Department of Environment
(Zakynthos Island Campus)

Greece

We are pleased to announce the 14th Biennial MESEA Conference Cultural Environments: Spheres, Ethnicity, Corporeality organized in collaboration with the Department of Environment, Zakynthos Island Campus, Ionian University.

The MESEA 2026 conference addresses the interconnections of Earth’s five spheres— geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and cryosphere— from the perspectives of ethnicity, culture and corporeality. As a response to the current global crises and related historical conditions, the conference brings together and creates a dialogue between anthropocentric and ecocentric perspectives and approaches in multiethnic cultural environments. This includes interdisciplinary discussions of topics such as cultural representation, oceanic/island studies, space and affect, mobilities and borders, bodies and knowledge, patterns of racialization, extractivism, non-human agency, (de)materializations, ecomedia narratives, environmental politics, and many more.

The 2026 MESEA Conference explores the diversity of the biophysical cosmos  in the nexus of nature and spatiality,  ethnicity, history  and geopolitics. Papers explore but are not limited to topics such as the following:

• In what ways does the materiality of Earth create cultural representations in the context of the five spheres? Similarly, how does non-material, digital technology represent nature?
• What kinds of imaginaries and dreamscapes result from the contacts between culture and the natural environment? What kinds of emergent and/or alternative cultural practices are involved in such encounters?
• What is the role of preservation and restoration of culture in diverse spatial environments? How do the tangible and the intangible interlace in the construction of cultural identity? 
• How are narratives of culture and the physical cosmos formed and articulated historically in the Anthropocene? 

For detailed information regarding MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), please visit: https://mesea.org/

Registration and conference details for MESEA 2026 are available at: https://mesea.org/category/conferences/