Category: Webinars
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Report on the 23rd EASLCE Webinar -“Ecological Care”
(Dr. Joshua Trey Barnett, Pennsylvania State University, USA) 5 October 2023, 4-5:30 pm (CEST) Participants: In the 23rd EASCLE Webinar on Ecological Care, participants discussed various facets of ecological care as process and practice, using theoretical reflections by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Thom Van Dooren to zero in on the seeming paradox of…
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EASLCE 23rd Webinar Ecological Care – Joshua Trey Barnett
Ecological Care Joshua Trey Barnett, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA Date and Time: October 5, 2023, 4-5:30 pm CEST Description Ecological crises are often the result of carelessness. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, calls to care about and for more-than-human beings and ways of being, ecological communities, and the earth itself…
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Webinar Report of the 21st EASLCE Webinar: Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature
“Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature (Dr. Isabel Pérez Ramos, University of Oviedo, Spain) 20 April 2023, 4-6 pm (CEST) Participants: The 22nd EASLCE webinar brought us closer to the various facets of environmental justice both as a social movement and as a concern of narrative texts. The group began by taking a look…
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EASLCE’s Webinar on Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature
Time and Date: 20 April 2023, 16:00 CEST / UTC+2; Dr. Isabel Pérez Ramos (University of Oviedo; GIECO-Instituto Franklin-UAH) The environmental crisis (from pollution and toxicity to the effects of climate change—and everything in between) does not affect every place and everyone (thinking of all life forms, human and otherwise) equally. Environmental justice, as an…
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Summary of the 21st EASLCE Webinar: The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea
Host: Dr. Ursula Kluwick (Bern, Switzerland) On December 1st, 2022, the 20th EASCLE Webinar took place, hosted by Dr. Ursula Kluwick University of Bern) in two installments, focusing on the topic of “The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea.” An international group of scholars came together, eager to discuss various facets of the Blue…
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EASLCE Webinar: The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea
EASLCE Webinar The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea Time and Date: 1 December 2022, 10.30-12.00 (CET); Dr Ursula Kluwick, University of Bern, Switzerland This seminar addresses shifts in perspective provoked by recent developments in the blue humanities. Interest in water began to emerge in the first decade of the 2000s, in the form…
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Summary of the 20th EASCLE Webinar: Unruly Plants: Interspecies Relations as Challenges for Literary and Cultural Studies
Hosts: Dr. Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (USA) & Dr. Solveig Nitzke, University Dresden (Germany) For the 20th EASLCE webinar, we left our offices made of grey concrete and instead immersed ourselves in the world of “Unruly Plants.” We started off with debating the characteristics that make a plant unruly. We thought about unruly plants’…
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20th EASLCE Webinar: Unruly Plants. Interspecies Relations as Challenges for Literary and Cultural Studies
Dr. Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (USA) & Dr. Solvejg Nitzke, University Dresden (Germany) Time and Date: 21.06. 16:00 CET (Central European Time) Even if, as a gardener, you might be well aware that plants are anything but static, most of us look at plants as slow, if not still beings. That is, if we…
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Summary of the 19th EASCLE Webinar: Oil and Gender in European Fiction and Film
Hosts: Dr. Julia Leyda (NTNU Trondheim) and Dr. Katie Ritson (Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich) Participants: Lena Pfeifer, (University of Würzburg, co-coordinator) Linda Hess, (University of Augsburg, co-coordinator) Auerochs, Florian (University of Vechta) Arutyunyan, Veronika (University of Hamburg) Famà, Santi Luca (Stockholm University) Filipova, Lenka (Free University Berlin) Nurmi, Tom (Norwegian University of Science…
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19th EASLCE Webinar: EASLCE Webinar Oil and Gender in European Fiction and Film
Dr. Julia Leyda, NTNU Trondheim, and Dr. Katie Ritson, Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich Time and Date: 31 March 2022, 10:00 CET (Central European Time) In this seminar we will consider Cara Daggett’s concept of petro-masculinity and how this translates in the context of European petrocultures. The cultural face of oil dependence has been…
