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Humanities and Cultural Studies Foundations of Sustainable Transformation: Agnieszka Komorowska & Nikola Roßbach - Sustainability: Perspectives from Literary Studies

  • Date: 12/12/2025
  • Time: 10:15 - 11:45
  • Place: Campus Center, Moritzstraße 18, Hörsaal 3
  • Organizer: FB02 Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften
Event posterImage: University of Kassel

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 the winter semester 2025/26

24.10.2025: Claudia Schlaak - Sustainability sciences 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 - Classism - Linguistic and didactic considerations on social sustainability
21.11.2025: Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu - Cultures of Sustainability and Sustainability Transformations
28.11.2025: Michael Mecklenburg - Narratives of sustainable conflict resolution: "Hildebrandslied" (9th century) - Arthurian romance (around 1200) - "Fortunatus" (1509)
05.12.2025: Angela Schrott & Jennifer Held - Discourse linguistics and sustainability communication. Grundlagen und Anwendungen
12.12.2025: Agnieszka Komorowska & Nikola Roßbach - Nachhaltigkeit: Perspektiven der Literaturwissenschaft
19.12.2025: Reading Week 
16.01.2026: David Römer - Tilting at windmills: Conspiracy theories about the climate and how they are linguistically plausibilized
23.01.2026: Mirja Kutzer - Climate factor religion. On the construction and deconstruction of world relations
30.01.2026: Tanja Angelovska - From Access to Agency: Inclusive and Multilingual EFL classroom as a Driver of Sustainable Transformation
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

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