Autumn workshop

European Ethnology/Empirical Cultural Studies (Prof. Dr. Michaela Fenske) and the Faculty of Design at THWS (Dr. Beatrice Barrois)

With eyes wide open, the current extinction of species can be seen everywhere in our daily lives. There are endangered organisms in the fields, gardens, forests, moors, vineyards, such as nightingales, hares, and partridges, which depend on extensively farmed areas for survival. But lizards, butterflies, and plants living on university campuses are also endangered. We invite you to join us in the autumn to speak out against species extinction and for species conservation on our campus. Econarratology and Ecocriticism assume that new narratives have transformational power. Narratives shape the world!

The workshop will combine approaches from extinction studies with those from applied research on narrative culture. It is planned to make stories of individual species tangible in the sense of multispecies storytelling.

Selected picture stories will be published from February 2025 on the homepage of the Chair of European Ethnology/Empirical Cultural Studies and the website of the THWS Faculty of Design. All interested students of the Faculty of Design of THWS, the Chair of European Ethnology/Empirical Cultural Studies, GSiK and other interested students are invited to take part in this special offer.

A digital booklet containing materials will be sent to all participants before the workshop.

Dates:

8 and 9 November and 22 and 23 November 2024

from 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-17.00

Debriefing: Spring 2025

Consultation via ZOOM on 30/09/2024, 3 p.m.

https://fhws.zoom-x.de/j/89695717203?pwd=ZzVzUzF0K0Z6VlFYd1d6NjNqek91QT09