Roman Bartosch & Tanya Gautam
Talk | January 16, 2025 | Über Musik und Literatur zur ökologischen Transformation (Cologne)
MESH researcher’s talks and presentations at conferences and elsewhere.
Branching out | WiSe 2025/26
Roman Bartosch
Talk | November 27, 2025 | Co-Creative Tools for Futures Literacy: The Storylearning Approach (Cologne)
Shumon T. Hussain
Lecture | November 25, 2025 | Why Multispecies Archaeology is not what you think it is (Dublin)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | November 24, 2025 | More-than-human Deep History: an Archaeology of Multispecies Lifeforms (Dublin)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | November 20, 2025 | Demarcation, Support, Solidarity and Allyship. Multimodal Climate Change Discourses on Social Media (Innsbruck)
Kate Rigby
Talk | November 18, 2025 | Revisiting the Hexaemeron in the Anthropocene (Cologne)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | November 7, 2025 | Sustainability Discourse since the Beginning of Sustainability Reporting: From Environmental Protection to Sustainable Development (Trier)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | October 23, 2025 | Multimodal Recycling and Periodic Discourse Patterns on Instagram (Bremen)
K. Rigby, M. Portera, N. Mala & C. Schwegler
Workshop | October 22, 2025 | Planetary Wellbeing: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities (Cologne)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | October 18, 2025 | Mensch, Tier, Landschaft: Allgemeine Ökologie des Kunstschaffens im Schwäbischen Aurignacien (Blaubeuren)
Branching out | SoSe 2025
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | October 9, 2025 | Biocultural Diversity: The Evolution of Integrated Human-Animal-Environment Systems (Frankfurt a.M.)
Roman Bartosch
Talk | October 6, 2025 | Storylearning: From Competence Models to the Tacit Knowledge of Fiction (Graz)
C. Schwegler & L. Rommel
Talk | October 6, 2025 | Multimodal Practices of Expression and Discourse Participation as Patterns of Sense-making (Graz)
Roman Bartosch & Sina Derichsweiler
Talk | September 25, 2025 | Reflexive Nachhaltigkeitsbildung im Fremdsprachen- unterricht (Kassel)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | September 22, 2025 | Linguistic and Multimodal Perspectives on Digital Activism and Climate Futures (Essen)
Roman Bartosch & Sina Derichsweiler
Talk | September 21, 2025 | Triggers as Tasks: The Democratic Value of Controversy and Conflict in Sustainability Education (Essen)
Kate Rigby
Keynote Lecture | September 19, 2025 | Intercultural Memory for Catastrophic Times (Berlin)
Carrie B. Dohe
Talk | September 12, 2025 | Of Solar Crosses and Green Roosters: The Greening of German Established Christianity (Bochum)
Kate Rigby
Talk | September 11, 2025 | For All our Neighbours: Christianity and Ecology in Action (Bochum)
Roman Bartosch
Talk | August 12, 2025 | The Erosion of Trust in Sustainability Education: The Promise of Radical Reading (Galway)
Kate Rigby
Talk | July 1, 2025 | Rejoining the ‘choir of creation’: Science, Religion and the Ecopoetics of Wonder in the Christian Hexameral Tradition (Swindon)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | June 26, 2025 | Reevaluating the Forager Spectrum (Darwin)
Carolin Schwegler, J. Landschoff & L. Rommel
Talk | June 24, 2025 | Repeat Repost Recycle: Climate Change Discourse on Social Media (Brisbane & online)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | June 24, 2025 | Deep Time Heritage. Critical Perspectives, and Future Opportunities (Darwin)
Kate Rigby
Talk | June 24, 2025 | Porous Boundaries and Borders of Entangled Bodies: A Counterpoint Conversation (Santa Barbara, CA)
Kate Rigby
Talk | June 1, 2025 | Contemplative Ecopoetics (online)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | May 22, 2025 | ECOLITHIC: Towards a Macro-Archaeology of Technological Ecosystems in Late Pleistocene Europe (Cologne)
Carrie B. Dohe
Poster Presentation | May 15, 2025 | Bees for Peace (Cologne)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | May 14, 2025 | A New Archaeology of More-Than-Human Lifeforms (Göttingen)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | May 10, 2025 | Climate Futures on Social Media (Frankfurt Oder)
Kate Rigby
Talk | May 3, 2025 | Eco-religious Studies in the Environmental Humanities (Hyderabad & online)
Tanya Gautam
Talk | April 24, 2025 | Digital Book Launch: Engaging with Environmental Education through the Language Arts (Online)
Branching out | WiSe 2024/25
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | March 27, 2025 | Deep-Time Animal Imagery: A Radical Critique (Kiel)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | March 20, 2025 | Zoomateriality (Mainz)
Kate Rigby & Christoph Lange
Talk | February 25, 2025 | Multispecies Solidarity: Towards a Postanthroparchal Polity (Kharagpur)
Louisa Crysmann
Talk | February 18, 2025 | Working with sheep on the hill and in the spreadsheet (Oslo & online)
S. T. Hussain & D. de Carvalho Cabral
Talk | February 10-12, 2025 | Becoming a Pest: Colonialism, Forest Change and the Making of the ‘Leafcutter Problem’ in Brazil (Bühl)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | January 31, 2025 | (Kybernetische) Makro-Archäologie der Technosphäre(n) (Mainz)
Nsah Mala
Talk | January 31, 2025 | Multiple Temporalities and Futures in the Congo Basin (Sharjah & online)
Kate Rigby
Talk | January 24, 2025 | ‘Aftermath’: Narratives of Hope (Erfurt)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | January 22, 2025 | Linguistic Discourse Analysis on Sustainability & Climate Futures: an Applied Linguistic Approach meets EH (Villa Vigoni, Como)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | January 18, 2025 | Climate Imaginaries on Social Media (Cologne & online)
Roman Bartosch
Talk | January 14, 2025 | Why (Climate) Storytelling Needs More than Facts and Feelings (Cologne)
Nsah Mala
Talk | November 19, 2024 | Beyond the National: How to Future at the Multilateral, Global and Local Levels? (Dubai)
Yoonjung Kim
Talk | Nov 19, 2024 | “Fubao, It's a Miracle I Met You”: How Female Panda Fans Are Transforming Human-Animal Relationships in South Korea (Online)
Franz Krause
Talk | November 5, 2024 | Whaling as Sharing: Ways of Respecting Animals in Inuvialuit Waters (Zurich)
Nsah Mala
Talk | November 1, 2024 | Activating the Declaration on Future Generations in Africa: Kenya, Cameroon, and South Africa as Frontrunners (Online)
Nsah Mala
Talk | October 29, 2024 | #CongoBasinFutures | Navigating Africa’s Future: Forecasting Development Trends and Opportunities (Online)
Tanya Gautam & Carmen Armenteros Puchades
Workshop | October 26, 2024 | S(p)oiled Art: A Poetry and Material Crafting (Cologne)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | October 9, 2024 | Let’s Talk About Prediction – And What We Learn From The Media Discourse (Geneva)
Nsah Mala
Talk | October 1, 2024 | Seasonal Food Futures from South to North? A Practical Foresight Workshop (Lille)
Branching out | SoSe 2024
Nsah Mala
Talk | September 29, 2024 | Exploring Alternative Futures for the Congo Basin (Online)
Roman Bartosch
Lecture | September 28, 2024 | Making Sense of Diversity: Multisensory Storytelling and the Challenge of Sustainability (Halle)
Nsah Mala
Lecture | September 25, 2024 | The Climate Crisis in African Arts: Literature, Cinema and Music (New York & online)
Katrin Klandt
Talk | September 16, 2024 | Human and Non-Human “Othering” (Cambridge)
Carrie Dohe
Talk | September 13, 2024 | Bees for Peace (Online)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | September 10, 2024 | Early Detection, Prediction or Risk Estimation? (Marburg)
Roman Bartosch & Ulla Schäfer
Talk | September 5, 2024 | Reading for Change (Cologne)
Roman Bartosch
Talk | August 27, 2024 | Future Imperfect: The End of the World and the Teaching of English (Lausanne)
Kate Rigby & Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | August 23, 2024 | Cultural Evolution in Changing Climes (Oulu)
Dominik Ohrem et al.
Poster | August 22, 2024 | Human and Earth System Coupled Research: The HESCOR Project (Oulu)
Franz Krause
Talk | August 19, 2024 | River Ice, Permafrost, and Other Melting Matter in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada (Oulu)
Franz Krause
Talk | July 25, 2024 | Whaling as Sharing: Respecting Animals in Inuvialuit Waters (Barcelona)
Sandro Simon
Talk | July 18, 2024 | That which Remains: Conceptualising Contemporary Gleaning (Barcelona)
Sandro Simon
Talk | July 18, 2024 | Mollusc Lifeworlds – a Multimodal Lecture Performance (Barcelona)
Katrin Klandt & Tanya Gautam
Workshop | July 3, 2024 | Narrative des Artensterbens: KölnerJuniorUni (Cologne)
Roman Bartosch
Lecture | June 25, 2024 | Climate Fiction (Cologne)
Tanya Gautam
Talk | June 18, 2024 | Troubled Waters, Troubled Kin: Ecopoetic and Ecoacoustic Exploration of Coral Reefs (Perpignan)
Franz Krause
Talk | June 10, 2024 | Inhabiting a Transforming Delta: Volatility and Improvisation in the Canadian Arctic (Lund)
Franz Krause
Talk | June 6, 2024 | Confronting, Appreciating and Re-making an Amphibious Environment in Estonia (Aarhus)
Christoph Lange
Talk | June 5, 2024 | Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (Cairo)
Carolin Schwegler
Lecture | June 4, 2024 | Climate Imaginaries – Future Imaginaries and Positioning in Social Media (Essen)
Franz Krause & Georgeta Stoica
Discussion | May 28, 2024 | Webinar, Anthropology of the Sea(s) (Online)
Roman Bartosch & Tanya Gautam
Talk | May 25, 2024 | American Soundscapes and Eco-critical Literacy in Musical and Literary Practice (Oldenburg)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | May 22, 2024 | Anthrobiodiversity: the deep history of human biodiversity contributions (Cologne)
Kate Rigby
Talk | May 17, 2024 | Restor(y)ing Creation: Decolonising the Biblical Narrative (Potsdam)
Dan Smyer Yü & Franz Krause & Kate Rigby
Film | May 15, 2024 | Human Kinship with Nature in the Tibetean Plateau (Cologne)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | May 13, 2024 | Humans for animals, animals for humans | Biweekly Colloquia, ROOTS Cluster of Excellence (Kiel)
Roman Bartosch & Julia Hoydis
Talk | May 7, 2024 | Modelling and Futures Literacy with Fiction (Graz)
Katrin Klandt
Talk | April 27, 2024 | Embodied Learning with Poetry in The Inclusive Classroom (Cologne)
Franz Krause
Talk | April 25, 2024 | Research permits, publication screenings, and scales of social relations (Cologne)
Franz Krause
Talk | April 22, 2024 | Nachhaltigkeit und Ethik: Perspektiven aus den Environmental Humanities (Cologne)
Tanya Gautam
Talk | April 17, 2024 | Navigating Multispecies Cultures in Indigenous Ecopoetics (Oxford)
Sandro Simon
Talk | April 17, 2024 | Freedom within Unfreedom: Conceptualizing Contemporary 'Gleaning' (Cologne)
Kate Rigby
Lecture | April 16, 2024 | The role of the Environmental Humanities in bridging divides (London & online)
Franz Krause
Talk | April 15, 2024 | Water as provocation: movement and transformation in the Circumpolar North (Cambridge)
Kate Rigby
Talk | April 11, 2024 | Potentiation, Conviviality and co-creation in romantic ecopoetics (Jena)
Branching out | WiSe 2023/24
Kate Rigby
Talk | March 11, 2024 | Ecotheology of the Hexameron (Online)
Roman Bartsch
Talk | February 20, 2024 | Rethinking Agency in the Anthropocene (Luleå & online)
Franz Krause
Talk | February 2, 2024 | Presenting the MESH Research Hub (Utrecht)
Carolin Schwegler
Workshop | February 2, 2024 | Sustainability Communication @ Linguistischer Studientag Nachhaltigkeit (Bremen)
Kate Rigby
Discussion | January 26, 2024 | ASLE Spotlight – new books in Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities (Online)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | January 24, 2024 | Linguistic Discourse Analysis and Sustainability Communication (Koblenz)
Sharon Gardham & Kate Rigby
Commoning Dialogues | December 11, 2023 | On Care of Our Commons Home (Online)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | December 5, 2023 | Pleistocene hunter-gatherer impacts on raven diets and ecosystem functioning (Raleigh)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | November 30, 2023 | Meta-linguistic and Terminological Differentiations in Risk Communication (Cologne)
Kate Rigby
Talk | November 18, 2023 | ‘Pilot’, ‘purpose’ or ‘kin’? (San Antonio, TX)
Shumon T. Hussain
Talk | November 17, 2023 | The Role of the Humanities in the Knowledge Ecologies of the 21st century (Bielefeld)
Roman Bartosch
Talk | November 3, 2023 | Doing Nothing to Save the Planet. Resisting the Solutionist Imperative in Education (Essen)
Mars Edwenson Briones
Talk | October 24, 2023 | Between Islands, through Storied Sea (Philippines & Online)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | October 21, 2023 | Risk Education and Counseling: Communicative Practices and Challenges (Hamburg)
Kate Rigby
Talk | October 13, 2023 | Making Connections: Advancing Ecocritical Studies of Literature and Religion (Ankara)
C. Schwegler, J. Landschoff & J. Hoydis
Talk | October 12, 2023 | Climate Futures in Multimodal Social Media Discourse: A Linguistic Perspective (Klagenfurt)
Branching out | SoSe 2023
Kate Rigby
Talk | September 8, 2023 | Discourses of Nature at the Dawn of the Anthropocene (Stavanger)
Kate Rigby
Talk | September 7, 2023 | Transdisciplinarity in the Environmental Humanities (Oslo)
Roman Bartosch
Talk | August 30, 2023 | Teaching the Future Imperfect (Liverpool)
Mars Edwenson Briones
Talk | August 29, 2023 | Tracing Transitions: Turns in Disaster Discourses (Liverpool & online)
Kate Rigby
Talk | August 9/10, 2023 | ‘Pilot’ or ‘purpose’? Positioning humankind in the ‘universal choir of creation’ (Hamburg)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | July 18, 2023 | Affordances and Challenges of Risk Communication (Lyon)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | July 13, 2023 | Knowledge Management in Counselling on Risk Prediction (Brussels)
Tanya Gautam
Talk | July 6, 2023 | The Resilient Other in Contemporary Ecopoetry (Cologne)
Roman Bartosch
Talk | July 4, 2023 | Reading Rocks! Hermeneutics in the Anthropocene (Cologne)
Kate Rigby
Talk | June 30, 2023 | Safeguarding Creation and Countering (Neo-) colonialism in the Amazon (Cologne)
Mars Edwenson Briones
Talk | June 15, 2023 | “Waray Katubtuban”: Sourcing Decolonial Potentialities from Discourses on Waráy (Online)
Christoph Lange
Talk | May 31, 2023 | Socio-Ecological Crises and Resilience in Egypt and Lebanon (Konstanz)
Kate Rigby
Workshop | May 2, 2023 | Behold! (Lesbos)
Kate Rigby
Talk | April 21, 2023 | Sympoesie: Augmentation, Conviviality and Collaboration in Romantic Ecopoetics (Online)
Kate Rigby
Talk | April 1, 2023 | Reckoning with Disaster: Life and Death in the Pyrocene (Wageningen)
Branching out | WiSe 2022/23
Carolin Schwegler
Workshop | March 30, 2023 | LDA von online-Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation (Brescia)
Roman Bartosch
Talk | February 17, 2023 | Wozu Literatur? Die Rolle von Literatur in Zeiten der Klimakatastrophe (Lübeck)
Roman Bartosch
Talk | February 17, 2023 | Reading for (a) Change: Die Cli-Fi-Bibliothek als Zukunftslabor (Lübeck)
Julia Hoydis
Talk | January 19, 2023 | Lektüre der naturphilosophischen Lyrik von M. Cavendish in Zeiten des Anthropozän (Online)
Carolin Schwegler
Talk | December 16, 2022 | Discourse Linguistics in the Environmental Humanities (Bremen)