Preliminary Programme
Thursday, April 25 |
16:30-17:00 Registration/Welcome Tea & Coffee |
17:00-17:30 Welcome Addresses Prof. Dr. Kirk Junker (Vice-Rector for Sustainability) Natalie Dederichs (Organiser) |
17:30-18:30 Keynote: Prof. Dr. Michael Marder |
20:30 Conference Dinner |
Friday, April 26 |
10:00-11:00 Keynote: Prof. Dr. Lykke Guanio-Uluru |
11:15-12:45 Panel 1: Ecocritical and Ecopedagogical Considerations Tom Nurmi: Dead Leaves Walking: Teaching Jeff VanderMeer in the Norwegian EFL Classroom Hanne Bolze: A ‘Green Man’ and the ‘Jasmine Spirit’: Anthropomorphized Plant Guardians in Children’s Literature Corinna Lüdicke & Lisa Rhein: Helpful Nature – Sentient Plants in Contemporary Children’s Ecofiction |
13:00-13:50 Lunch Break |
14:00-15:30 Panel 2: Greening the Literature and Language Curriculum Christina Becher: Plant Poetics: Creating a Greener Foreign Language-Culture Curriculum Carmen Sippl: My Tree-Like Me. Plant Imaginary for Futures Thinking in the Works of Children’s Author Melanie Laibl Sarah Maaß: Sensing, Reading, Writing plants: Nature Writing for Children and Young Adults |
16:00 Exhibition: Botanical Audioscapes by Sarah Fartuun Heinze & N. B. Spiders |
Saturday, April 27 |
10:00-11:30 Panel 3: From Cross-Pollination to Cross-Disciplinary Learning Solvejg Nitzke: At the End of the World Stands a Tree. Arboreal Apocalypses and Ecological Redemption Nandini Gosine-Mayrhoo: The Music of the Plants: Nurturing the Nature Leaders of Tomorrow, Today Hanna Thürigen: The Carnivorous Island in 'Life of Pi' |
11:45-12:00 Short Break |
12:00-13:00 Keynote: Prof. Dr. Roman Bartosch |
13:15-14:00 Lunch Break |
14:00-15:30 Panel 4: Reading and Teaching Literary Plants Anna-Magdalena Schröder: Sowing Hope: Transforming Plants in Contemporary Francophone Children's Ecofiction David Engelen-Kern: For the Love of all Creation: Encountering the Vegetal and a Spiritual Eco-Pedagogy of Care in Contemporary Muslim Children’s Literature Katrin Klandt: Reclaiming Lost Flora: Embodied Learning with Plant-Poetry in The Inclusive Classroom |
15:45 –16:00 Closing Remarks |
16:00 Farewell |