Conference Programme
Cultivating Sustainability: Education and the Environmental Humanities
20.30 Conference Dinner
Friday, October 5 10.00 –11.00 Keynote: Prof. Dr. Helena Feder: ‘Education and the Ecological Turn’ 11.15–12.45 Section 1: Environmental Humanities – Environmental Education Greg Garrard: Creating Viewpoint Diversity in the Environmental Humanities Mareike Tödter: “I can have an impact (?)” - Emphasising Agency through Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the Political Natalie Dederichs: Teaching Literary Atmospheres: A Theoretical Ground for a Hazy Matter
13.00–13.50 Lunch Break
14.00–15.00 Keynote 2: Prof. Dr. Hubert Zapf: ‘Sustainable Texts: Literature as Cultural Ecology’ 15.15–16.45 Section 2: Sustaining Literatures and Cultures
Christian Ludwig & Frank Erik Pointner: “Where were you when the sky cracked open?” – Responses to Hurricane Katrina in Popular Culture Marta Janachowska-Budych: Migration as a Topic of the Environmental Humanities. Education for Sustainable Development with Texts of Migration Literature Kübra Baysal: Rewriting Herstory through the Voice of Nature: The Cleft
16.45-17.00 short coffee break
17.00-18.00 Section 2 (cont.)
Jolene Mathieson: Maritime Literature and Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Climate Change Ricardo Römhild: The Didactical Potential of Ecocritical Documentaries in the EFL Classroom
Saturday, October 6
10.00–11.00 Uhr Keynote 3: Prof. Dr. Uwe Küchler: ‘What’s in a Language? Environmental Concepts and Metaphors in Foreign Language Education’ 11.15–12.45 Section 3: Teaching English in a World of Crisis Christiane Hansen: Fictions of Disaster: Climate Change and the Imaginary in a Framework of Cultural Literacy Svenja Rosenau: Tolerance of Ambiguity and Sustainability-Related Competencies in the EFL Classroom Claudia Deetjen: Global Learning and Environmental Education: Dystopian Narratives about Environmental Catastrophe in the EFL Classroom
12.45-13.15 Lunch and Coffee Break
13.15-14.15 Section 3 (cont.)
Joannis Kaliampos: Bridging the Curricular divide: Integrating Sustainability and EFL Instruction in a Project (Week) Context for Secondary School Learners of English and Science
Jürgen Wehrmann: Facing Posthuman Scenarios: Global Education through Utopian Thinking and Heuristics of Fear in the EFL Classroom
14.15-14.30 short coffee break
14.30-15.30 Keynote 4: Prof. Dr. Christiane Lütge: ‘Global Digital Citizenship – New Perspectives for Foreign Language Education’
16.30 Conference Wrap-Up