Humanities and cultural science foundations of sustainable transformation - Lea Schäfer

The lecture series sheds light on questions of sustainability from different perspectives in the humanities and cultural studies - with a particular focus on language, symbols and communication. The panorama ranges from literary and linguistic approaches to cultural and cognitive studies and illustrates how interdisciplinary approaches link theory, practice and discourse practice and thus contribute to an understanding of sustainable transformation.

Lectures in winter semester 2025/26, updates to follow.

24.10.2025: Claudia Schlaak - Sustainability Studies from a Humanities and Cultural Studies Perspective
31.10.2025: Holden Härtl - Linguistic Representations of Sustainability Concepts
07.11.2025: Ralf Rummer - Cognitive Science Foundations of Language and Communication
14.11.2025: Olaf Gätje - t.b.a.
21.11.2025: Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu - Cultures of Sustainability and Sustainability Transformations
28.11.2025: Michael Mecklenburg - t.b.a.
05.12.2025: Angela Schrott - t.b.a.
12.12.2025: Agnieszka Komorowska & Nikola Roßbach - Sustainability: Perspectives in Literary Studies
19.12.2025: Reading Week
16.01.2026: David Römer - t.b.a.
23.01.2026: Mirja Kutzer - t.b.a.
30.01.2026: Tanja Angelovska - t.b.a.
06.02.2026: Lea Schäfer - Language changes thinking: Conceptual metaphors in sustainability communication
13.02.2026: Final discussion

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Holden Härtl
Head of the "English Linguistics" department
FB 02 Humanities and Cultural Studies