Winter/summer schools & symposia
August 2–13, 2021
Active participation in an international (online) two-week-long summer symposium on “Climate | Changes | Global Perspectives” organized by the University of Würzburg in Germany, with keynote lectures by (among others) Heather Houser (UT Austin) and Susan Morrison (Texas State University).
July 6–11, 2020
Active participation in an (online) intensive week-long Summer School program on Ecoculture (X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture in Portugal) featuring (among others) Lawrence Buell (Harvard University), John Durham Peters (Yale University), Haun Saussy (University of Chicago) and Hubert Zapf (University of Augsburg).
January 20–24, 2020
Active participation in an intensive, week-long Winter School program at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands on cutting-edge narrative theory and “Narrative and Identity”, devoted to studying the many forms and shapes of narrative identity in a wide variety of media and settings and from different perspectives (featuring, among others, Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar [University of Groningen], Liesbeth Korthals Altes [University of Groningen], Fernanda Mota Alves [Universidade de Lisboa] and Barend van Heusden [University of Groningen])