Events
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We will add upcoming events and information on past events over the span of the project.
Future Events
This summer and fall (2026), we will host several events at the University of Limerick. We will post these here once plans are finalized!
Past Events
When: May 28th and May 29th, 2026
Online Author Event with Ilija Trojanow: EisTau and the Climate Crisis.
A lecture on literature and climate change, followed by discussion and Q&A.
Time: 9.00-11.00 (Irish Time)
Where: Online or University of Limerick (Room LCO017 (Optional in-person attendance). Open to students and the general public.
Language: German
Please register to receive the event link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-author-event-with-ilija-trojanow-tickets-1985737787176?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
Christa Grewe-Volpp: Climate Change (Fiction) from an Ecocritical, Interdisciplinary Perspective
Time: 14.30-15.30 Irish Time
Where: Online
Language: English
Please register to receive the event link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1983346718425?aff=oddtdtcreator
A Podcast on Climate Change and Ageing.
In this episode of B.A.B.E.L. in Galway – A podcast about languages, cultures, and lives across borders, hosts Dr. Bianca Cataldi and Dr. Andrea Ciribuco (University of Galway, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) are joined by Dr. Tina-Karen Pusse (University of Galway, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and Dr. Michaela Schrage-Früh (University of Limerick, Centre for European Studies) to discuss their DAAD1-funded research project “European Societal Challenges in German Culture: Exploring Ageing and Climate Change in Tandem”.
Follow the link below to find a summary of the podcast, as well as the podcast itself!
You can listen to the podcast here: https://open.substack.com/pub/babelingalway/p/episode-2-exploring-ageing-and-climate-52a?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Claudia J. Ford on “Grandmother Wisdom.”
We are welcome to join an event in collaboration with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care at Uni Graz on November 24, 9.00 Irish Time. Claudia J. Ford will be speaking on “Grandmother Wisdom.”
Uhrzeit: 10.00-11.30 CET
Wo: Online (https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/61603794530)
Sprache: English
Dr. Claudia J. Ford is a professor of the department of Environmental Studies at State University of New York, a Fellow of the Panel on Planetary Thinking at Justus Liebig University in Germany, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Distinguished Visiting Faculty and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo.
For more, see: https://cirac.uni-graz.at/en/news/24.11.2025-1000-grandmother-wisdom-a-guest-lecture-by-claudia-j.-ford/
Kathleen Woodward on The Dominance of Numbers, Gifts from the Arts: Antidotes to Ageism in the Anthropocene
This event is cohosted by the DAAD Project “European Societal Challenges in German Culture: Exploring Ageing and Climate Change in Tandem” and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care
Uhrzeit: 10.00-11.30am PST (6.00-7.30 Irish Time)
Wo: Online
Sprache: English
Wenn Sie teilnehmen möchten, melden Sie sich bitte über folgenden Eventbrite-Link an: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kathleen-woodward-on-the-dominance-of-numbers-gifts-from-the-arts-tickets-1968155611415?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
Kathleen Woodward is Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Washington where she served as director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities from 2000-2025. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions (2009), Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991), and At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (1980). She is also the editor or coeditor of three interdisciplinary collections of essays on aging from the perspective of the humanities: Figuring Age: Women—Bodies—Generations (1999), Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis (1986), and Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology (1978). Her recent essays have focused on aging in the Anthropocene and the work of the video artist Cecelia Condit.
Uhrzeit: 15:00 – 16:30 Uhr (irische Zeit)
Wo: Online
Sprache: Deutsch
15:00 – 16:00 Uhr: offen für alle Mitglieder der German UL Section
16:00 – 16:30 Uhr: ausschließlich für DAAD-Teammitglieder
Wenn Sie teilnehmen möchten, melden Sie sich bitte über folgenden Eventbrite-Link an: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mutters-stimmbruch-katharina-mevissen-im-interview-mit-miriam-haller-tickets-1780436175529?aff=oddtdtcreator
Katharina Mevissen (geb. 1991) studierte Kulturwissenschaft und Transnationale Literaturwissenschaft und lebt als Autorin in Berlin. Ihr Romandebüt Ich kann dich hören wurde mit dem Kranichsteiner Literaturförderpreis ausgezeichnet und 2021 vom Westdeutschen Rundfunk als Hörspiel adaptiert. Sie ist Mitherausgeberin der Publikation Gesammeltes Schweigen in der Edition Zweifel. Der Roman Mutters Stimmbruch erhielt 2024 den Förderpreis zum Bremer Literaturpreis sowie den Meersburger Droste-Förderpreis. Derzeit forscht sie an der Freien Universität Berlin zu Mündlichkeit und Literatur.
August 30th-Sept 2nd: Writing Workshop in Galway
Project members gathered to discuss relevant literature, prepare the book chapters, and plan future events. Check out the Blog Post for more information!
