Tag: EASLCE
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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…
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EASLCE Statement on the War in Ukraine
EASLCE is deeply concerned about the dramatic situation in Ukraine and the military attacks that Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have decided to launch into the sovereign state of Ukraine. We express our explicit condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine and the impact this has on the lives of innocent people and those in affected…
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UPDATE: Biennial EASLCE Conference 2022 / University of Granada (Spain) Transcreations. Creaturely encounters as cultural artefacts
UPDATE 9th Biennial EASLCE Conference / University of Granada (Spain) NEW DATES: September 12-15 2022 Transcreations – Creaturely encounters as cultural artefacts. 9th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) After two postponements due to the restrictions imposed by COVID-19 protocols, the local organising committee is happy…
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EASLCE Newsletter Winter 15.2 2021
New EASLCE Newsletter Winter 15.2 2021! Dear EASLCE-members and friends, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley”, Robert Burns sentenced more than two centuries ago in his poem “To a Mouse”. Indeed they do! Without any warning, irrespective of our species, an imprudent plough or a regal submicroscopic pathogen can…
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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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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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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…
