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 The Nature: Through Her Eyes festival was a special event with free  admission celebrating and highlighting women’s roles in storytelling  about nature and the environment, including writers, photographers,  filmmakers, as well as camera and sound operators.The festival was held in Perpignan, France from October 18-21st, 2019  with presenters from the media, literature, academia and research, and  legal and commercial worlds. Programming included professional  workshops, seminars, film screenings, and mentoring, and these videos  offer a glimpse into the 4 days of exciting events. The UPVD was a partner of the event.https://youtu.be/o1u8Ybc5B00 Bénédicte Meillon is Associate Professor at the University of Perpignan,  where she teaches literature and literary translation. She runs the  ecocriticism and ecopoetics research group at the University of  Perpignan Via Domitia and has organized two international conferences in  Perpignan “Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the  Earth” June 2016, and “Reenchanting Urban Wildness: To Perceive, Think,  and Live with Nature in Cities”, June 2019. Bénédicte is on the Advisory  Board for EASCLE (European Association for the Study of Literature and  the Environment)and with the help of Dr. Margot Lauwers, she has created a network and Internet Platform dedicated to ecopoetics and  ecocriticism (https://ecopoetique.hypotheses.org/).  Her research explores ecopoetics of reenchantment, focusing mostly on  neoregionalism, on magical realism, mythopoeia, ecofeminism, with close  attention to the interactions between nature, cultures and the texture  of language itself.  Learn more about the festival at: www.naturethroughhereyes.com 