Place-Based Knowledges, Water, and the Classics: Teaching the Environmental Humanities in Warsaw, Augsburg, and Ghent

This contribution stems from a collaboration on a joint MA in the Environmental Humanities for the Erasmus Mundus Program. It first outlines key challenges of teaching the Environmental Humanities in Europe amid the polycrisis. Then it presents three case studies – Warsaw (situated knowledge), Augsburg (interdisciplinary teaching of ‘water’), and Ghent (classics as ‘unplaceable’) – to discuss diverse educational frameworks and practices. These serve as a basis, in a third step, to consider the concrete transdisciplinary interventions that teaching the Environmental Humanities might present in our respective contexts.