Poster
ICOBH 2026
Introduction
The convergence of the two distinct domains of studies, i.e., oceanography with the nascent field of the Blue Humanities to interrogate the literary geographies of islands and water bodies, opens a new gateway to the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. In the contemporary researches it is being witnessed what is termed as an “Oceanic Turn” “Marine/Aquatic Turn” or “Blue Turn” in the humanities, wherefore the ocean, sea and other aqueous spaces are no longer treated merely as decors or metaphors but as agile, conducive sites of cultural, historical, and ecological as well as spiritual epitaph. Analyzing the concurrent synchronous and parallel shift in the field of the blue humanities and oceanography together, it is observed that oceanography has increasingly moved beyond positivist hydrography to interact with the various facets of human life associated with their aquatic bonhomie such as their social, political, and symbolic dimensions of marine and lacustrine systems. By synthesizing oceanographic data with literary and cultural analysis, this conference seeks to get the responses of such esoteric and labyrinth queries to map how islands, coastlines, and watery interiors become charged literary geographies that design anthropocentric and ecocentric worldviews with an ecoscimatic lens. Further it is also sought to discern the veracity that the deep-sea study with a thalassic focus and pelagic perspective paves a way where ingenuity coalesces the integration of seascapes and ecoscimatic imagination in literary criticism and geographical intervention simultaneously.
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