Tag: Webinar
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16th Webinar II – Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives with Alexa Weik von Mossner
Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives Alexa Weik von Mossner, Professor of American Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Time and Date: Saturday, 7th of November 2020, 09:00 a.m. CET (Central European Time) Due to the high level of interest. Max Participants: 8 (Please register below) Recent years have seen an increased attention…
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EASLCE 16th Webinar: Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives with Prof. Alexa Weik von Mossner
Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives Alexa Weik von Mossner, Professor of American Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Time and Date: 10th of October, 2020 – 09:00 a.m. CET (Central European Time) Registration Closed, please check back for our next webinar! Recent years have seen an increased attention to the ways in which…
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EASLCE 15th Webinar: Brexit Ecocriticism
Brexit Ecocriticism Greg Garrard, Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of British Columbia, Canada Webinar Date and time: 2 May 2020, 10am PDT / 7pm CET The long-standing relationship between conservatism and conservation, and between nation and nature, was obscured by the stark anti-environmentalism of late twentieth century neoliberal conservatism. The vital role of ‘Englishness’ in…
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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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EASLCE 14th Webinar: Ecocritics Going Public: Using Our Knowledge for Public Good
Scott Slovic, Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho, USA EASLCE Webinar Date and time: April 5th, 10am PST / 7pm CET Many students, teachers, and researchers have been drawn to the environmental humanities because of a desire to contribute, through academic work, to the well-being of society and the planet—but sometimes practitioners feel unprepared…
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News:Summary of the 13th EASLCE Webinar: Plant Studies by Christa Grewe-Volpp
Webinar Report: Summary of the 13th EASLCE Webinar: Plant Studies by Christa Grewe-Volpp Summary Saturday, November 16th, saw eight enthusiastic ecocritics from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, and the UK, gather together for the 13th EASLCE webinar. The webinar was hosted by Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp from University of Mannheim, Germany. [ Read the full report…
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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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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…
