Book Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs Author: Boria Sax “In this erudite, wide-ranging and engaged work, Boria Sax explorers the cultural flesh that has been wrapped around the fossilized bones of these iconic creatures. He asks, ‘What is a dinosaur?’ and shows that the answer is not merely a…
University of Cologne | September 17-19, 2026 Violence is an underlying structural element in fantastic narratives. Whether through depictions of intergalactic wars, epic battles, magical duels, monstrous creatures, heroic warriors, dystopian surveillance regimes, apocalyptic landscapes, conquests and systems of exploitation, physical assaults, psychological transgressions, or more subtle forms of abusive power: the fantastic explores violence in all…
A new master’s program in “Environmental Humanities” will be starting at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in October 2026. The interdisciplinary program combines concepts, theories, and methods from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to investigate the historical, cultural, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of environmental and ecological issues, such as climate change, mass extinction,…
This year’s EASLCE Best Graduate Student Essay Prize has gone to Gabriele d’Amato. He holds a Joint PhD in Literary Studies from Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of L’Aquila (Italy). From October 2026, he will be FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University. Drawing on narrative theory, New Formalism, and the environmental humanities, his publications…
University of Augsburg | March 3-5, 2027 Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to…
April 9, 2026 | 9–10:30 am CEST Popular culture is one of the most powerful spaces where publics encounter science, form attitudes toward it and imagine what scientific, technological and environmental futures might look like. Film and comics, for example, reach global audiences and offer a narrative imagination lab where emerging technologies and environmental urgencies (and…
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The Lechner Museum Ingolstadt is proud to host the upcoming workshop, “Storied [Art] Matter: Methodological Approaches across Material Engagement and Aesthetics,” taking place from 25 to 27 March 2026. This event emerges from the Art | Material Ecology working group and is organized by Kaja Ninnis and Ursula Ströbele. The workshop explores methodological experiments and alternative approaches to narrating material culture, focusing…
Speculative Climates: Hauntings of the Past Across the Humanities International Doctoral Workshop funded by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School Considering the contemporary as a timespace haunted by crises rooted in the past, the workshop on Speculative Climates asks how the intricate mesh of colonialism, (neo)capitalism, and the climate crisis is imagined in the Humanities through Gothic hauntings.…
In the “storied seas” of the Anthropocene, water is never merely a backdrop; it is an archive (Oppermann 2019). Its ebb and flow resemble the turning over of eternal epigraphs. The sustained contact between groundwater and surface water over centuries—and indeed, for as long as the earth has existed—has established persistent waterscapes that give life…
The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—the place where many colonial methods were tested before being exported to the farther-flung portions of the empire. In Irish Ecomedia, Katherine M. Huber examines the environmental impacts of imperial rule and the various ways they…
Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities (2025), edited by Gabriela Jarzębowska, Aleksandra Ross, and Krzysztof Skonieczny. This volume critically interrogates non-Western frameworks within environmental humanities, seeking to challenge and deconstruct dominant Western paradigms. Through a range of interdisciplinary contributions, the book explores alternative epistemologies, including Indigenous, postcolonial, and regional perspectives from Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the…
