Greening Language!

Workshop with Armelle Blin-Rolland (Bangor University)
Conception, Organisation, Moderation: Bettina Egger

In this workshop we will focus on relations between languages and ecologies, and how an ecological approach to languages and a plurilingual approach to ecology can help us rethink how we talk about and relate to the more-than-human world. It will introduce students to EcoModLang https://www.ecomodlang.com/ (British Academy / Leverhulme Trust SRG22\220097), a project that brings together scholars, educators and eco-citizens across different geographical locations and language specialisms. The key aim of the project is to think together about the role that languages and intercultural exchanges can play in times of ecological crises, in ways deeply entangled with decolonisation and decentralisation of knowledges and practices, and towards multispecies justice. The workshop will take this ongoing project as a starting point for us to think together about how our different languages talk about the environment; what vocabularies of environmental violence and resistance have developed across different natural-cultural, social and political contexts; and what resonances, convergences and divergences emerge across languages of the environment. We will explore how multilingual and multicultural lexicons can help us to reimagine and transform our relationships to the more-than-human world, towards meaningful sustainability rooted in planetary liberation and well-being.

The workshop will be held online, in English language.
Teams link for online participation

Dr. Armelle Blin-Rolland is a lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at Bangor University (UK), specialising in ecocriticism, comics and bande dessinée.