Category: Webinars
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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…
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS -Webinar: ‘Toxic Embodiment’ Prof. Cecilia Åsberg and Dr. Marietta Radomska
Webinar: ‘Toxic Embodiment’ By Prof. Cecilia Åsberg and Dr. Marietta Radomska Sat, Aug 25th, 10:30-12:00 CEST. REGISTER HERE Existential concerns around environmental health today involve a much wider set of issues (and a wider set of bodies) as we intra-act with antibiotics, nanoparticles, and untested chemical cocktails through the food we eat, the make-up we…
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EASLCE Webinar: Ecological Immunity and Biopolitics in the Anthropocene with Hannes Bergthaller
Environmentalist discourse has familiarized us with the idea that human beings are members of the “ecological community,” and that this membership comes with obligations that our species has sorely neglected…
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Webinar Spring 2017 – Dr. Simon C. Estok – The Ecophobia Hypothesis
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2017With Dr. Simon C. EstokThe Ecophobia Hypothesis Saturday, May 20, 2017, 14:00 pm EU time Context: In The Biophilia Hypothesis, a book E.O. Wilson co-edited, Stephen Kellert explains that “the dominionistic experience of nature reflects a desire to master the natural world” (56). This “proficiency to subdue, the capacity to dominate, and…
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EASLCE Webinar: Understanding Climate Scepticism with Dr. Greg Garrard
Understanding Climate Scepticism with Dr. Greg Garrard Thursday, 26 May 2016; 19:00 CET Understanding Climate Scepticism: Environmental Communication Meets Ecocriticism Context Environmentalists know who climate sceptics are: oil company shills, religious fundamentalists and neoliberal cheerleaders. But in this webinar we ask: who do they think they are? What kinds of selves do sceptical texts project?…
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EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016 With Dr. Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Friday, March 4, 2016 (10 am CET) (Please register by February 22, 2016) Social Systems Theory and the Environmental Humanities Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems, elaborated in a vast archipelago of texts between the 1970s and his death in 1998, remains one…
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Webinar Spring 2015 The Dark Pastoral
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2015 May 21st at 7pm CEST With Prof. Heather I. Sullivan The Dark Pastoral CONTEXT: As a trope, the “dark pastoral” engages the controversy in ecocriticism and environmentalism about which cultural forms are most productive for re-imagining the human and non-human interactions in the Anthropocene during what appears to be the Earth’s sixth…
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Stacy Alaimo Webinar: Bodily Natures, Anthropocene Subjects
EASLCE Webinar With Dr. Stacy Alaimo February 11, 2015 (7 pm CET) “Bodily Natures, Anthropocene Subjects.” Context: As Humanities scholars grapple with the idea of the anthropocene, one of the key questions may be how to conceive of the “anthropos.” Does the anthropocene demand the reconceptualization of the human as a concept, species, geological force,…
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EASLCE Webinar Dr. Stephanie Le Menager December 13th
EASLCE Webinar With Dr. Stephanie Le Menager, University of Oregon December 13, 2014 (7 pm CET) The Cultures of Energy Context: The “cultures of energy” describes a branch of the environmental humanities that draws upon energy politics, the experiential and political dimensions of climate change (thus, aesthetics and affect), and the geologic turn associated with…
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5th EASLCE Webinar: Literature and/as Cultural Ecology
The 2014 webinar series will start off with a webinar hosted by Prof. Dr. Hubert Zapf (University of Augsburg, Germany) on Literature and/as Cultural Ecology. This 5th EASLCE webinar takes place on February 27th at 4:00 pm (Central European Standard Time). In the webinar, Prof. Zapf will position the concept of “literature as cultural ecology”, which he has developed in some of his recent…
