Alena Mathis M.A.

• 2020: Sponsorship Award of the Barmherzige Brüder Bayerische Ordensprovinz for Bachelor Thesis „Music and Movement Oriented Social Work in Grief Counselling. Backgrounds and Considerations for Opening Up A New Field of Activity“ (first placed)

• “Solastalgia in the Alps? On Emotional Dimensions of (Climate) Change in Mountain Agriculture” (PhD Colloquium “Rural Studies #5”, Bamberg, September 25-27, 2024).
• “Sensing Extinction and Creating Awareness: Solastalgia as an Emotional ‘Contact Zone’ between the Human and Non-human World” (Conference “Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia and Semiotics of Recovery”, University of Tartu/Estonia, June 5-7, 2024). Paper available here(267.3 KB). Abstract volume to be published in 2025.
• “Solastalgia. A Cultural Studies Investigation of Senses of Loss, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in the Allgäu Alps” (PhD Colloquium, Walderbach, February 21-22, 2024).

Seminars

• Extinction Studies: About Cultural Practices in Dealing with Dying Species (winter term 2024/25)
• To Read and Understand Scientific Texts – Reading Course (winter term 2023/24, summer term 2024)
• Solastalgia – Grief in the Climate Crisis. A Response to the Loss of ‘Nature’ (summer term 2023)

Field Trips

• Sounds of Bamberg. Searching for Acoustigraphic Traces (summer term 2024)
• "Renew Local History Museums!" Symposium in Munich (winter term 2023/24)