The EASLCE Webinar is a digital 90-min. event format which seeks to bring internationally renowned scholars and their most recent research closer to graduate students and emerging scholars. The webinars facilitate scholarly exchange in a small group of max. 15 participants per webinar and thereby allow for in-depth and often cross-disciplinary discussion. Usually, EASLCE hosts two to three webinars per year, with a regular occurrence in spring and autumn. Topics cover different areas of Environmental Humanities scholarship such as plant studies, environmental justice, the blue humanities, the more-than-human, and petrocultures.
New webinars are announced via the newsletter and social media. Sign-up takes place via the EASCLE website. The webinars are free of charge for participants.
– Lena Pfeifer, Dr. Linda Hess
Current webinar organizers: Dr. Linda Hess (University of Augsburg, Germany) and Lena Pfeifer (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Recent Webinar News and Reports
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Announcing Arcadiana!
Arcadiana is a blog about the environment in literature and culture. It is hosted by postgraduate members of the European Association for Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE). Arcadiana was created in response to discussions in the 14th EASLCE Webinar “Ecocriticis Going Public” with Scott Slovic. During the webinar we discussed the important contributions that…
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EASLCE 15th Webinar: Brexit Ecocriticism
Brexit Ecocriticism Greg Garrard, Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of British Columbia, Canada Webinar Date and time: 2 May 2020, 10am PDT / 7pm CET The long-standing relationship between conservatism and conservation, and between nation and nature, was obscured by the stark anti-environmentalism of late twentieth century neoliberal conservatism. The vital role of ‘Englishness’ in…
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Summary of the 14th EASLCE Webinar: Ecocritics Going Public
Scott Slovic opened the webinar with an introduction into the world of the public intellectual, a figure that is explored in depth in the writings we prepared for the webinar. Rather than letting ourselves be pushed to the side while scholars in the fields of economics, public policy, law and the natural sciences dominate public…
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EASLCE 14th Webinar: Ecocritics Going Public: Using Our Knowledge for Public Good
Scott Slovic, Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho, USA EASLCE Webinar Date and time: April 5th, 10am PST / 7pm CET Many students, teachers, and researchers have been drawn to the environmental humanities because of a desire to contribute, through academic work, to the well-being of society and the planet—but sometimes practitioners feel unprepared…
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News:Summary of the 13th EASLCE Webinar: Plant Studies by Christa Grewe-Volpp
Webinar Report: Summary of the 13th EASLCE Webinar: Plant Studies by Christa Grewe-Volpp Summary Saturday, November 16th, saw eight enthusiastic ecocritics from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, and the UK, gather together for the 13th EASLCE webinar. The webinar was hosted by Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp from University of Mannheim, Germany. [ Read the full report…
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Webinar “Plant Studies” with Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp 16.11.2019
Webinar 16.11.2019 at 10 AM CET on “Plant Studies” Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp “Plant studies” is a very recent branch of critical inquiry in literary and cultural studies which, although discussed since the 1970s, entered public discourse only in 2013 with Michael Pollan’s article “The Intelligent Plant” in The New Yorker. Pollan is one among several…
