Event Details:

• Format: In-Person
• Date:April 16-17, 2026

Conference Structure:

• Panels
  
• Workshops
  

Why Attend?
Through plenary sessions with distinguished scholars, literary conversations, reflection activities, and creative workshops, the event moves from reflection to tangible change. Participants will also engage with the practical outputs of the EcoStories project.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Event Details:

• Format: In-Person
• Date:March 5-6, 2026

Conference Panels:

• Sociocultural EcoAssemblages
  
• Theoretical and Practical Approaches to EcoAssemblages
  
• Literary EcoAssemblages (I) & (II)
  
• Postcolonial and Non-Eurocentric EcoAssemblages
  
• Criticism and EcoAssemblages
  

Why Attend?
EcoAssemblages Conference is an international scholarly event that brings together many scholars from different backgrounds to discuss Environmental Humanities from the lens of Assemblages.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Event Details:

• Format: Online via Zoom
• Time: 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM CET
• Access: Join via Zoom
• Meeting ID: 694 6709 1657
• Passcode: 758169

Lecture Schedule:

• Tuesday, February 11, 2025
  Sustainability Education in a Diverse Adult Education Classroom
  Presented by Joke Dewilde & Elin Sæther, University of Oslo, Norway
• Friday, March 14, 2025
  Ecological Identity in the Making: Poetic Encounters Between Young Migrants and the Elements of Nature
  Presented by Sara Shahwan, Goldsmiths University London, UK
• Thursday, March 20, 2025
  Advancing Climate Change Literacy: The Value of Thinking Twice
  Presented by Julia Hoydis & Roman Bartosch, University of Graz, Austria & University of Cologne, Germany
• Tuesday, April 8, 2025
  Stories from an Anthropocene River: Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange
  Presented by John Kim, Sarah Lewison & Rebecca Snedeker, Anthropocene Commons/Macalester College; Southern Illinois University; Independent Artist & Public Scholar
• Tuesday, May 13, 2025
  Digital Ecostorytelling: Young Adults Developing an Ethics of Care
  Presented by Vicky Macleroy, Goldsmiths University London, UK

Why Attend?
The EcoStories lecture series offers a unique opportunity to engage with ideas about sustainability, ecological identity, and climate change literacy. Each session emphasizes the power of storytelling and education in fostering environmental awareness and action.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Experts and practitioners from various fields—history, architecture, art history, literature, creative writing, oceanography, climatology, linguistics, and environmental activism—have been invited to select a painting from the Accademia collection. They will engage with it to analyze its ecological themes, implications, and entanglements. Our aim is to show that art can serve both as a diagnosis and an inspiration for understanding the climate crisis engulfing our planet, while demonstrating how Venice offers a unique vantage point for observing and finding solutions to these challenges. The goal will be an ‘ecocritical’ itinerary at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, to be published by wetlands press as part of a new series devoted to the nexus between Venetian art spaces and ecology.

Keynote speakers include Alan C. Braddock, author of Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary of Art History; Peter N. Miller, President of the American Academy in Rome and author of The Weather on 9/9/01; and bestselling author Olivia Laing, who will discuss her new book, The Garden Against Time. The event is part of the Erasmus+ project “Ecostories” (*Eco-Storytelling: A Digital Toolbox for the English Classroom for Building a Climate-Just Future*), coordinated by the University of Graz (Austria), with participation from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and the University of Malaga (Spain).

Organising Committee: Shaul Bassi, Lucio De Capitani, & Fabiana Fazzi (Ca’ Foscari University), Giulio Manieri Elia (Director, Gallerie dell’Accademia), Luca Molà (Director, Warwick Venice Centre), Michele Nicolaci (Curator, Gallerie dell’Accademia).

The symposium is co-organized by Gallerie dell’Accademia and the University of Warwick Venice Centre and benefits from the prestigious collaboration with the American Academy in Rome.

Free entry – Reservation required via google form at the following link: https://forms.gle/dugQvgxq1xAxKvPSA

Check out this website for more information: Event: The Tempest in The Tempest: Art and Ecology Across the Disciplines – Unive

The environment and climate are deteriorating, affecting not only plants and animals but also children and young people, while older generations continue to benefit despite the current multiple crises. This critique, prominently voiced by Greta Thunberg and other climate activists, has become a pervasive media narrative in recent years. Popular media aimed at and about young people reflect this discourse, simultaneously envisioning futures centered around sustainability and climate justice. YA literature engages directly with debates of significance to younger generations, such as climate change, biodiversity, social diversity, and inequality. Fictional narratives blend the emotionally resonant themes of “youth,” “media,” and “climate/ecology,” constructing stories that allow readers to grapple with complex existential questions and societal contradictions that often remain underexplored in traditional media coverage and on social platforms. Within these fictional narratives, young characters often embody dual roles: passive sufferers of ecological crises and proactive activists. This duality reflects a passion that encompasses both suffering due to the world’s challenges and a commitment to change it. The lecture investigates the representations of youth within contemporary (German) YA literature – focusing on Dirk Reinhardt’s No Alternative and Chantal-Fleur Sandjon’s City of Trees –  and their intersections with narratives related to climate change and biodiversity loss.

Christine Lötscher is a Professor of Popular Literature and Media, with a focus on children’s and young adult media, at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Popular Cultural Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich. Her research centers on popular genres from a transmedia and feminist perspective, particularly climate fiction, (gothic) romance, coming-of-age, and fantasy. In 2020, she published Die Alice-Maschine. Figurationen der Unruhe in der Populärkultur (The Alice Machine: Figurations of Unrest in Popular Culture). Having begun her career as a literary critic, she continues to regularly publish essays on contemporary literature and media. Her current research projects include:

• Eco-Passions: Coming of Age in the Anthropocene 
• Love, Genre, and Therapy in Times of Social Media (New Romance on BookTok)
• Global Heidi: A Transmedial and Transcultural Phenomenon

She is the co-editor of the online magazine geschichtedergegenwart.com