10/09/2025

European Cultural Studies lecture series: 'Sustainability in the humanities'

Sustainability is no longer solely the concern of the natural, material or environmental sciences—the humanities also make a vital contribution to the critical reflection on and ethical underpinning of sustainable models of the future. This winter semester, the European Cultural Studies lecture series will focus on the topic of 'Sustainability in the humanities'. The lectures will take place every Monday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Saarland University (Building B3 1, Lecture Hall 0.14).

The interested public is welcome to attend. The series begins on 20 October with a lecture entitled 'New images of the world in the age of man' by Professor Jonas Nesselhauf.

The following text has been machine translated from the German with no human editing.

The lectures will open up interdisciplinary perspectives on the social, linguistic and cultural dimensions of sustainable thinking and action – going well beyond the ecological understanding of sustainability. The focus will be on, for example, historical narratives of resource scarcity, literary and media representations of the environment, technology and crisis, and cultural studies analyses of social transformation processes. Questions about the connection between digitalisation and sustainability as well as methodological reflections on sustainability in scientific practice will also be included. The lectures aim to build bridges between theory and practice as well as the past, present and future – thus addressing central issues of the Master's programme in European Cultural Studies.

The interested public is welcome to attend the lecture series; registration is not required.

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Further information:
Dr Stephanie Blum (Study Coordinator for European Cultural Studies)
Email: stephanie.blum(at)uni-saarland.de
https://www.uni-saarland.de/fakultaet-p/studienkoordination/europaeische-kulturstudien.html