Saskia has a professional background in film production management before starting her academic adventure. She finished her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Cologne with the thesis „Die ANT im literaturwissenschaftlichen Kollektiv: Eine netzwerktheoretische Analyse von Bruno Latours 'Wir sind nie modern gewesen‘“ (‚The ANT in the literary studies collective: A network-theoretical analysis of Bruno Latours ‚We have never been modern‘).
Currently she is enrolled in the Master’s program Theories and Practices of Professional Writing as well as Germanic Studies and Philosophy at the University of Cologne and joined MESH in July 2022 as Research Assistant to Professor Kate Rigby. Since 2024 she is also Communications Specialist at the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Global Coalition Thematic Hub for Planetary Wellbeing.
Her main fields of inquiry are contemporary epistemology (exploring social and moral questions of knowledge production and AI-systems), interdisciplinary literary studies and the Environmental Humanities with a focus on the interface of ethical and social dimensions of literature and the arts. Saskia also likes to use multi-modal approaches creating her own word art.
Contact: smaasse3[at]uni-koeln.de
Office: Weyertal 59, Wienand building, 4th/top floor
Presentations/Talks
January, 12th/13th, 2024 | Poster & Abstract Presentation
Heat(ed) Debate – The German ‘Buildings Energy Act’ and its heat pump saga, a Linguistic Frame Semantics discourse reconstruction; 17. Winter Meeting, The International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Education about Health and the Environment: Sustainability and an Equitable Energy Transition. https://hee-journal.uni-koeln.de/winter-meeting
September 08, 2023 | Student project presentation
EUniWell Pop-Up Academy: The (dis?)Connectedness of Natures and Cultures
https://www.euniwell.eu/news-events/events/detail/euniwell-pop-up-academy-the-disconnectedness-of-natures-and-cultures
May 10th, 2023 | Speaker/Presenter alongside poet Luke Fisher @MESHGrassroots
Ecopoetry Workshop: What are Poets for in a Time of Ecological Crisis?
https://mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/grassroots/grassroots-luke-fischer
Academic experiences & Participation
September 04th-8th, 2023 | Participant (fully funded)
EUniWell Summer School: Across Nature and Culture: the city of Florence as a case study for natural-cultural conservation and preservation issues
https://www.euniwell.eu/what-we-offer/educational-offer/summer-winter-schools/euniwell-summer-school-across-nature-and-culture-the-city-of-florence-as-a-case-study-for-natural-cultural-conservation-and-preservation-issues
July 31st- August 4th, 2023 | Participant
16. Cologne Summer School in Philosophy; Ram Neta: Rational Agency and Self-Consciousness
https://cssip.uni-koeln.de/
June 29th – 30th, 2023 | Participant
Workshop: The Role of Intuitions in Philosophy
https://philosophie.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen
May 31st – June 3rd, 2023 | Volunteer & Participant (certificated)
European Conference on African Studies
https://ecasconference.org/2023/