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This is a practical block seminar where we study the ethics and principles of permaculture (permanent / sustainable agriculture) through games and exercises from the Theatre of the Oppressed. Full participation at both weekends is vital.

This is a weekly seminar where we study texts that investigate the connection between environmental degradation and racism and where we respond to the subject, through creative / critical writing. 

Environmental racism is, according to the environmental justice movement, the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people who are Black, Indigenous and People-of-Colour. Environmental Justice is the movement's response to environmental racism. This course seeks to contribute to the environmental justice movement.

Acknowledging the importance of “home” in discussions on migration and displacement, this seminar focuses on the concept of home in several works of migrant literature. The seminar aims to explore the complexity of the concept of home beyond pure location: as a feeling, a thought, an ideal, a process, a ritual. The seminar will thus focus on reading and analyzing a variety of contemporary texts (poetry, novels, essays or autobiographies) by diverse writers to explore the ways in which they engage with the concept and the experience of home for mobile individuals.

This research colloquium provides students in Anglophone Modernities with the opportunity to study and critically engage with various current approaches to literary and cultural studies. Advanced students can also present their own MA projects and receive feedback. In addition, we will make time to discuss the process of writing an MA thesis. Attention: the central approaches discussed in this particular colloquium are poststructuralism/deconstruction, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism.