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SUMMARY:Beyond Despair: Foreign Language Education\, Environmental Humaniti
 es\, and a Pedagogy of Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Kontakt: monika.class@englund.lu.se\n\nIn the talk\, Uwe Küchl
 er (Professor at University of Tübingen) challenges the prevailing approa
 ch in German teaching materials that fixates on environmental catastrophe\
 , urgency\, and individual behavioral changes. These materials inadvertent
 ly channel students' perspectives towards despair. Instead\, his talk expl
 ores the environmental humanities and an interdisciplinary approach as a f
 oundation for reimagining foreign language education. The presentation dra
 ws on related disciplines—ecolinguistics\, ecocriticism\, critical pedag
 ogy\, and environmental psychology. The goal is to illuminate how students
  can become active agents in transforming environmental communication. Thi
 s means creating opportunities for meaningful engagement and a more hopefu
 l understanding of ecological challenges. Drawing on his recent book Envir
 onmental Literacy and the Teaching of English&nbsp\;(Narr 2025)\, Uwe Küc
 hler argues for foreign language learning to move beyond despairing narrat
 ives and become a critical space for environmental awareness.\n\nMer infor
 mation om händelsen: https://calendar.prodwebb8.lu.se/evenemang/beyond-de
 spair-foreign-language-education-environmental-humanities-and-pedagogy-res
 ilience
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