Events

Literature and Climate (Change): How does literature, especially poetry, participate in the debate about the climate crisis? And what can we learn from ecopoetry? We will present and discuss examples from the work of the American poet Jorie Graham.

Please register via eh@uni-wuerzburg.de. The Zoom link will be sent to you after registration.

This event is part of the Public Climate School 2022 and therefore open to the public. Further information: https://publicclimateschool.de/lokalprogramm-nov-22/

Find further PCS events in Würzburg also listed on the pages of the new WueLab: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/universitaet/nachhaltigkeit/wuelab/aktiv-werden/

Stephanie LeMenager, Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English & Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, USA gives a Zoom Workshop for PhDs and Advanced Students on »What Can Fictions Do, When Reality Implodes?«. Register via QR code by clicking on the event.

Véronique Tadjo, writer, artist and Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa gives a Zoom Workshop for PhDs and Advanced Students on »Virus, Literature & Politics«. Register via QR code by clicking on the event.

Pieter Vermeulen, Associate Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium gives a Zoom Workshop for PhDs and Advanced Students on »Depopulating the Novel: Post-Catastrophe Fiction, Scale & the Population Unconscious«. Register via QR code by clicking on the event.

Katie Ritson, Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center Munich, Germany and Julia Leyda Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway give a Zoom Workshop for PhDs and Advanced Students on »Oil and Gender in European Fiction & Film«. Register via QR code by clicking on the event.