Tag: Webinar
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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…
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News: Summary of the 17th EASLCE Webinar: Transversal Aesthetics
Host: Dr André Krebber, University of Kassel, Germany Participants: Julia Ditter, Northumbria University, United Kingdom (co-ordinator) Lena Pfeifer, University of Würzburg, Germany (co-ordinator) G. J. Hilton, Birmingham University, United Kingdom Molina Klingler, University of Würzburg, Germany Melina Lieb, University of Mainz, Germany Stefano Rozzoni, University of Bergamo, Italy On 2 March, a group of aspiring…
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EASLCE 18th Webinar: Realism(s) in the Anthropocene: Representational and Ethical Challenges
EASLCE 18th Webinar Realism(s) in the Anthropocene: Representational and Ethical Challenges Dr Adeline Johns-Putra, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China & University of Hong Kong Time and Date: 16 April 2021 – 11am CET (Central European Time) This webinar is concerned with the capacity of literary realism to address the representational and ethical dilemmas of the Anthropocene:…
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17th EASLCE Webinar: Transversal Aesthetics – Aesthetics Beyond the Human with Dr André Krebber
Transversal Aesthetics – Aesthetics Beyond the Human Dr André Krebber, University of Kassel, Germany Time and Date: 2 March 2021 – 5pm CET (Central European Time) In geometry, a transversal is a line that intersects a system of parallel lines. Transversal aesthetics represents a new sensitivity in aesthetics towards the affective integration of aesthetics into…
