The Lechner Museum Ingolstadt is proud to host the upcoming workshop, “Storied [Art] Matter: Methodological Approaches across Material Engagement and Aesthetics,” taking place from 25 to 27 March 2026. This event emerges from the Art | Material Ecology working group and is organized by Kaja Ninnis and Ursula Ströbele. The workshop explores methodological experiments and alternative approaches to narrating material culture, focusing…
Virtual Workshop: (Narrating) Environmental Displacements, October 6-8, 2021 “We live in an era of unprecedented mobility: movement of ideas, goods, money and, increasingly, of people,” opens a 2017 UN report on emerging issues of environmental concern. While mobility and migration can be significant drivers of development and progress, offering opportunities to individuals and families, as…
Deadline Extended JULY 14th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Contemporary Marine Environments Changing marine environments form a significant part of contemporary concerns around global warming. Rising sea-levels, microplastics, oil spills, and fishing practices are just some of the compounding environmental factors that scientific research attempts to tackle. Yet the sea is also an everyday space of both…
Third Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies In the current climate of a global ecological crisis, visions and representations of the Nordic environment are undergoing a swift change. Traditionally, imagery of the Nordic and Arctic areas has been heavily influenced by the national Romantic ideas of purity and pristine wilderness, which still inform…
“The Greening of Everyday Life: Reimagining Environmentalism in Postindustrial Societies.” It is sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and will take place in Munich, 19-21 June 2014. Deadline for proposals is July 15, I welcome those of you considering submitting a proposal to Travel expenses for invited participants will be paid…