11. Is a River Alive? with Robert Macfarlane

This is a special episode, a conversation between Robert Macfarlane, Pella Thiel and Ingrid Rieser as Macfarlane's remarkable new book, Is a River Alive?, was published in Swedish. Robert Macfarlane is a British writer and academic, best known for his lyrical books about landscape, nature, place, and language. He is Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities at the University of Cambridge, and his works - such as Mountains of the Mind, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and Underland - have won multiple awards, made him one of the leading voices in contemporary nature writing and even made him figure as a potential laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature. Is a River Alive? is a meandering story about waterbodies and their humans, investigating rivers as subjects with interests, needs, and agency.  The episode begins with a presentation by Robert, followed by a conversation hosted by Ingrid Rieser in a big lecture hall in KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The session ends with great questions from the audience. This is a collaboration with the podcast Forest of Thought and Environmental Humanities Lab at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. LINKS:  Video version here: https://forestofthought.substack.com/p/live-is-a-river-alive Robert Macfarlane book Is a River Alive? https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455147/is-a-river-alive-by-macfarlane-robert/9780241624814 The Swedish version of the book: Har floden ett liv? https://oceanbooks.se/bok/har-floden-ett-liv/ Environmental Humanities Lab on KTH Sweden - https://www.kth.se/ehl/kth-environmental-humanities-laboratory-1.1225452 Forest of Thought Podcast - https://forestofthought.com/