Fluid Worlds: An Ecocritical Workshop

On Thursday 16 April, Ocean Space will host the workshop Fluid Worlds, part of the International Conference on Ecopedagogy in the Foreign Language Classroom organised by the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies at Ca’ Foscari University.

Ocean Space as a collaborative platform for Ocean Imagination and Ocean Action invites its visitors to dive into a somewhat alternative exhibition experience which resembles the complex entanglements of our world. 

Fluid Worlds: An Ecocritical Workshop invites to unpack the displayed art installation through an ecocritical lens in order to collaboratively think about how cultural spaces can function as ecopedagogical venues for foreign language classrooms and beyond. 

The aim of the workshop is to, firstly, discuss and share thoughts about the project. Secondly, present exhibition-based methods for ecocritical readings of exhibitions; and to finally, experiment with ideas about a fluid world where contemporary ways of thinking are overcome and speculative world building is encouraged.

Nicole Haring is (Senior) Scientist of American Studies and Director of the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests focus on gender and feminist theory, contemporary US-American literature, Inter-American studies, and environmental humanities. Her teaching and research is informed by participatory approaches, interdisciplinary attempts, and critical pedagogies. She is a researcher in the Erasmus+ project “Eco-Stories” (www.ecostories.org) and the co-editor of the volume Entanglements, Narratives, and the  Environment: Inter-American Perspectives (Lexington, 2024) with E. Bauer, and R. Maierhofer. 

Fabiana Fazzi is a PostDoc Research Fellow in Educational Linguistics and Learning Coordinator of the Master Programme in Foreign Language Teaching Didactics at Ca’ Foscari University (Venice). Her research interests lay in the area of: language learning beyond the classroom, multiliteracies and global citizenship skills development in an additional language, arts-based methods (i.e. digital storytelling, drama, and artistic methods), and bilingual education (i.e. CLIL). 

Eva Katharina Bauer is research assistant and PhD student at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, where she also coordinates the Erasmus+ project “Eco-Stories” (www.ecostories.org). Her ongoing research investigates the temporal aspects of environmental concerns in the field of ecolinguistics, intersectional environmentalism and Inter-American Studies.