Talk Jannis Buschky will give a talk about the relationship between discourses of Indigenous vanishing and the invisibility of oil in John Joseph Mathews’s novel Sundown (1934) at the 2026 “Petrocultures: Situating Energy” conference at TU Dresden on August 28th. “Petrocultures” is the largest conference examining the social and cultural dimensions of energy. […] The post “Invisible and…
Talks Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler and Timo Müller will present on the modernist aesthetics of early automobility at the 36th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies. The conference, entitled “Visions of Freedom,” explores “how the concept of freedom has shaped the United States—past and present, real and imagined.” Timo Müller’s and Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler’s […] The…
Talk Gilberto Mazzoli will give a talk about the impact of the automobile on the ecological sciences and on the production of new environmental knowledge in the United States at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences” and will be […] The post “Motorized Scientists: Mapping Mobile…
Workshop “Environmental Mobilities: Research, Public Engagement, Museum Practice” The Off Road-team is collaborating with the Verkehrszentrum Deutsches Museum Munich to host the workshop “Environmental Mobilities Research, Public Engagement, Museum Practice” on July 22nd 2026. The workshop addresses the history of mobilities by studying transportation and infrastructures through a distinct…
New Podcast by members of the project Project members Gilberto Mazzoli and Jannis Buschky have just launched their new podcast, which explores the environmental humanities through conversations with scholars working at the intersections of history, literature, culture, and ecology. The podcast tells meaningful stories and conversations about environmental change and human relationships with the…
Talk Timo Müller will present parts of his research on the pastoral aesthetics of early automobility at the annual conference of the Modernist Studies Association, held together with the British Assocation for Modernist Studies. The conference, titled “Weird Modernisms,” explores alternative ways of thinking about modernist cultural production. Timo Müller’s talk “Valleys of Ashes: Weird […] The…
Workshop Members of the OffRoad project helped organize the workshop “Environmental Humanities: Putting Scholarship, Representation, and Practice in Dialogue.” The workshop explores and promotes interdisciplinary research in the environmental humanities, a relatively new field that investigates the relationship between nature and society. Naturally, the environmental humanities are also a…
Guest Lecture We cordially invite you to Timo Müller’s guest lecture at the “Crafting the Future Through Interdisciplinary Grants” workshop, jointly organized by the Department of American Studies at the University of Konstanz and the Department of Music at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria. At the workshop, Timo Müller will speak about insights […] The post “Off the Road:…
Lecture We warmly invite you to the lecture “A Venture into the Void of Un-vironmental Thought” by Dr. Natalie Dederichs. When: Thursday, January 29, 5:00–6:30 p.m. Where: University of Konstanz, Room H 305 Dr. Natalie Dederichs’s research focuses on the study of literary texts that engage with environmental issues, particularly at the intersection of ecocriticism and […] The post ‘A Venture into…
Talk The OffRoad Project is represented at an online panel hosted by the Federation of Infrastructure Scholars in the Humanities (FISH). The event, co-organized by Caroline Levine, takes place on December 9 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. (ET) and is held via Zoom. The panel focuses on automobile infrastructures and brings together three leading scholars in […] The post Timo Müller (University of…
