University of Stuttgart, May 23 – 24, 2025
Friday, May 23, 2025
- 1:30 – 2:00 pm: Welcome and Introduction
Christine Kanz (University of Education Upper Austria, Linz) and Stefanie Ohnesorg (University of Tennessee) - 2:00 – 3:20 pm: Session 1 (introduced and led by Christine Kanz)
- Gaby Pailer (University of British Columbia)
The Call of the She-Wolf: Alpha-Wölf:innen bei Jack London, Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach und Rick McIntyre - Laura Beck (University of Hannover)
The Autobiographical Self-Fashioning of Female Hunters in Contemporary European Literature (working title)
- Gaby Pailer (University of British Columbia)
- 3:20 – 3:30 pm: Break
- 3:30 – 5:30 pm: Session 2 (introduced and led by Stefanie Ohnesorg)
- Linda Puccioni (University of Siena)
Frau Mutter – Mutter Erde: Marlen Haushofers Die Wand zwischen Ecocriticism und Feminismus - Christine Kanz (University of Education Upper Austria, Linz)
Frauen(bewegung) und/in Natur: Verena Stefans Landgeschichten - Urte Stobbe (University of Cologne)
Mensch-Pflanze-Interaktionen in den Gedichten Sarah Kirschs
- Linda Puccioni (University of Siena)
- 17:30 – 18:30: Workshop: Work(ing) on Selected Ecocritical German Texts
Readings are disseminated among participants ahead of the conference
Christine Kanz, Stefanie Ohnesorg, and Altina Mujkic (University of Stuttgart) - Starting at 7:00 pm: Joint Visit of the Stuttgart Literaturfestival
- “Poesie für Freiheit” – Gedichtband Gespräche über Bäume (Poetry for Freedom – Conversations about Trees)
- Ensemble HeARTbeat by Axel Brauch: “For my Negativity” by Kagayi Ngobi (directed by Annette Bühler-Dietrich.)
Saturday, May 24, 2025
- 8:30 am: Arrival and Welcome
- 9:00 – 11:00 am: Session 3 (introduced and led by Annette Bühler-Dietrich)
- Lee Teodora Gušić (University of Frankfurt)
Das Tröstliche und das Natürliche in den Werken von Christa Reinig
- Lee Teodora Gušić (University of Frankfurt)
- Ragesree Roy (University of Warwick)
Gender Precarity, Memory and Violence: Reading Water through Agential Realism in German literature: Karen Duve’s Rain (1999) and Esther Kinsky’s River (2017). - Stefanie Ohnesorg (University of Tennessee)
Ökokritische Annäherungen an Ulrike Draesners Doggerland - 11:00 – 11:15 am: Break
- 11:15 am – 13:15 pm: Session 4 (introduced and led by Christine Kanz)
- Annina Klappert (University of Erfurt/Augsburg)
Momente der aisthesis: Poetische Verschränkungen des Lebendigen in Silke Scheffels Gedichten - Erika Berroth (Southwestern University)
Multispeziesische Verflechtungen und vibranter Materialismus in Marica Bodrožićs Texten der Migration - Annette Bühler-Dietrich (University of Stuttgart)
‘Sich in der Natur verlieren’ in Chantal-Fleur Sandjon City of Trees
- Annina Klappert (University of Erfurt/Augsburg)
- 13:15 – 13:45 – Final Remarks & Departure
Christine Kanz (University of Education Upper Austria, Linz), Stefanie Ohnesorg (University of Tennessee), Annette Bühler-Dietrich (University of Stuttgart)