Collaborations

WueLab

As a central scientific facility of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, the WueLAB is to be developed as a place for a transdisciplinary, cross-status, and cross-site sustainability discourse. The goal of the WueLAB is to establish a culture of sustainability at the university and beyond. For this purpose, WueLAB brings together the existing power and knowledge of the university to enable the implementation of new transformation experiments.

In January of 2024, the WueLab approoved the implementation of a transformation experiment specifc to the Environmental Humanities: "Institutionalization of Environmental Humanities as an Interdisciplinary Field in Research and Teaching at JMU Würzburg."

For more information on the WueLab, please contact:

Prof. Dr. Anja Schlömerkemper, Vizepräsidentin für Chancengleichheit, Karriereplanung und Nachhaltigkeit
vp-sustainability@uni-wuerzburg.de.

Dr. Cornelia Kühn, Geschäftsführerin des Nachhaltigkeitslabors
cornelia.kuehn@uni-wuerzburg.de

Environmental Humanities Transformation Experiment

In January 2024, the WueLab of the JMU Würzburg approved a new transformation experiment – "Institutionalization of Environmental Humanities as an Interdisciplinary Field in Research and Teaching at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg" – that will develop over the course of three years.The transformation experiment is intended to test whether, analogous to the Digital Humanities, the Environmental Humanities, understood as an interdisciplinary mesh, can be sustainably rooted at the JMU Würzburg.

With the institutionalization of the Environmental Humanities, the JMU Würzburg would belong to the avant-garde in this field in Germany, which already includes the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, which is closely linked to LMU, or the Research Hub MESH - Multidisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, recently opened at the University of Cologne. To this end, two options will be explored during the duration of the experiment:

Establishment of an interdisciplinary master's degree program in "Environmental Humanities"
The establishment of a chair in "Environmental Humanities"

For more information about the EH Transformation Experiment, please contact:

Prof. Dr. Catrin Gersdorf, Chair of American Studies
catrin.gersdorf@uni-wuerzburg.de

Hannah Nelson-Teutsch, M.A.
hannah.nelson-teutsch@uni-wuerzburg.de

REKLINEU

REKLINEU is a BMBF-funded network dedicated to developing "Regional Paths to Climate-Neutral Universities" with the goal of establishing a "culture of sustainability" at the participating universities by focusing in particular on "the inventory, avoidance, reduction and compensation of carbon dioxide (CO2)."

REKLINEU TP-10 "Sustainability in Literature and Culture"

The project "Sustainability in Literature and Culture" is a core component of the REKLINEU network devoted to the examination of literature and art as "spaces in which new forms of thinking, acting, and living can be imaginatively 'tried out'."