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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