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We are extending the deadline for our junior scholars workshop until Feb. 5 2026! Please consider sharing this/applying! All-costs-covered workshop for PhD candidates/early career scholars to receive comprehensive feedback on Germanic #EnvironmentalHumanities works-in-progress!
Dear Environmental Humanities Folks,
Our second virtual Umwelt Lecture is coming up!!
Bernhard Malkmus, University of Oxford: "Embedded Temporalities: Interspecies Life Narratives in a Time of Permacrisis" -- Jan. 29, 12 PM EST -- Read more and register here: germanic.osu.edu/umwelt/virtu...
for instructions and more info, see germanic.osu.edu/umwelt/publi...
It will be posted to the Center’s website as a public resource for scholars, students, and the public, and shared with relevant listservs.
We welcome monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, book chapters, special issues, critical editions/anthologies, or digital/ public-facing scholarly work
Call for Publications (2024-2025)!
We are launching a regular Publication Digest highlighting recently published scholarship at the intersection of #EnvHum / Ecocriticism and Germanic Studies, including German, Dutch, Yiddish, and Scandinavian or historical/transregional Germanic-language contexts.
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Between 6-8 junior scholars will be selected to present their papers and receive feedback from the other participants, Umwelt Center faculty, and guest scholars Professor Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) and Professor Seth Peabody (Carleton College). Submission instructions in link above!!
We invite works-in-progress (articles, dissertation chapters, book chapters, etc.) engaging with any aspect or topic at the intersection of Germanic Studies and Environmental Humanities. Papers will be pre-circulated among participants for the workshop on April 17-18, 2026.
CfP! 🎉
germanic.osu.edu/umwelt/junio...
The Umwelt Center invites submissions for its 2026 Junior Scholars Workshop, open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and independent scholars working in the fields of Germanic Studies and Environmental Humanities. 1/3
This sounds absolutely awesome and gives students so much agency! Always love to explore ways for them to be more active in their own learning. Thanks for sharing, I'm inspired (and also the course topic sounds so cool!!)
Ohio Winter Wonderland, bonus: cool dead tree ✨❄️🌰❄️✨
With the directory, we aim to bring the field together, increase scholars’ visibility, and offer a centralized resource for anyone interested. We are encouraging people who work in ANY Germanic contexts to reach out if they'd like to be featured - message me or send an email and PLEASE Share! :)
Hi #EnvironmentalHumanities People! The Umwelt Center has begun to work on a comprehensive scholar directory that we want to continue to expand! If you work in EnvHum and the context of Germanic Languages&Cultures (post ABD), reach out to us, and please share!
germanic.osu.edu/umwelt/umwel...
Coming this November! ✨🎉
Over the summer, we are working on an exciting new initiative for the Umwelt Center: A wiki for key concepts in the Environmental Humanities & Germanic Studies!
We invite 750-1000 w. entries - for more details, see the call here:
germanic.osu.edu/umwelt-wiki
#envhum #environmentalhumanities
