Grad Workshop Keynote | Simon Probst (Vechta) Coral Memories: How Reefs Shape Cultural Imaginaries of Time in North America and Europe
Join us in Room 319 at Altes Finanzamt for the Keynote talk of the 7th annual graduate workshop - this year on Memory Matters
When? 5 Feb, 14:15
No registration required for the keynote
The 7th annual Graduate Workshop’s keynote takes place on Thursday 5th February from 2:15 to 3:45 pm - Simon Probst (Vechta) will discuss Coral Memories: How Reefs Shape Cultural Imaginaries of Time in North America and Europe. Find more details on the main page of the workshop.
Simon Probst is a postdoctoral scholar at Universität Vechta, where he works in the DFG-project “Natural-cultural Memory in the Anthropocene. Archives, Media and Literatures of Earth History” (2024-2026), which addresses cultural dimensions of planetary crises from the perspective of interdisciplinary memory studies. At the intersection of literature and knowledge, his work brings together cultural and literary theory with different fields of scientific knowledge such as climatology, earth system science, or ecosemiotics, developing planetary and ecological perspectives on German literature from the 18th to the 21st century. His 2024 book Sinn in der Klimakrise: Über eine planetare Literaturtheorie (Meaning in the Climate Crisis: On a planetary theory of literature) is available open access from Transcript.
