Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

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

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Abstract

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.


open access | peer reviewed

Submitted: Sept. 3, 2025 | Accepted: Oct. 28, 2025 | Published Dec. 18, 2025 | Language: en

Keywords Place-specific teaching • Ethics • Literature • Water • History • Transdisciplinarity • Classics

Copyright © 2025 Katja Sarkowsky, Marco Formisano, Paweł Piszczatowski. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2025/02/003