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)

• On Coming to Terms with Eco Grief (with Jana Paulina Lobe, LMU Munich). Workshop „Impulses for a Public and Engaged Environmental Anthropology. Concepts, Perspectives, and Politics” of the AG Umweltethnologie, DGSKA, and the Kommission Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen, DGEKW, 08 October 2026, University of Munich (LMU).
• Kaleidoscope of an Interview on the Perception of Landscape (Non-)Change. Workshop on Writing and Interpretation “Between Field and Text”, 13 June 2026, Saarland University.
• Solastalgia in the Alps? A cultural studies investigation on dimension of grief in the face of anticipated landscape degradation in the Allgäu Alps. Guest lecture, seminar “‘Après Ski?’ Contributions of Cultural and Social Sciences to Climate Change in the Alps” (Prof. Bernhard Tschofen), 24 March 2026, University of Zurich (UZH).
• Unwriting Ecological Relationality in the Humilocene: Exploring the Wisdom Embodied in Land-Based Craft Traditions (with Prof. Ullrich Kockel, University of the Highlands and Islands/UK). Panel Coordination, internat. SIEF-Kongress “unwriting”, 03-06 June 2025, University of Aberdeen/UK.
• Solastalgia in the Alps? Reflections on the emotional dimensions of (climate) change in mountain agriculture. PhD colloquium “Rural Studies #5”, 26 September 2024, University of Bamberg.
• Sensing Extinction and Creating Awareness: Solastalgia as an Emotional ‘Contact Zone’ between the Human and Non-human World. Internat. conference “Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia and Semiotics of Recovery”, 06 June 2024, University of Tartu/EST.
• Solastalgia. A cultural studies investigation on senses of loss, intangible cultural heritage, and climate change in the Allgäu Alps. PhD colloquium, 21 February 2024, Walderbach.

Herausgeberschaft

• Special Issue "Gender und Medizin" der "Curare. Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie", 2025, Gastherausgeberschaft (gemeinsam mit Barbara Wittmann). Open Access: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/issue/view/262.

Beiträge in Sammelbänden und Zeitschriften

• Exploring the Relationship Between Tangible and Intangible Losses in Solastalgia – A Short Essay. In: “Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia and Semiotics of Recovery”. Abstractband zur Konferenz, Universität Tartu/Estland, 05.-07.06.2024. Im Erscheinen.
• Gender and Medicine. On the Need to Address Patriarchal Structures, Medical Gaslighting, and Glaring Gaps in Research. In: Curare. Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie 47 (2024) 1+2, S. 7-12 (gemeinsam mit Barbara Wittmann). Open Access: https://curarejournal.org/ojs/index.php/cur/article/view/3833/2172.

Blogposts und Online-Beiträge

• Solastalgia: “Mourning Nature“ in the Anthropocene. In: Trummer, Manuel: Tales from the Anthropocene. Ethnographic Explorations of Climate, Sustainability & Ecology in Everyday Life – One Story at a Time. Blogpost (17.06.2024). URL: https://anthropocenetales.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/solastalgia-mourning-nature-in-the-anthropocene/. 

Rezensionen

• Sammelrezension in der Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft 2/120 (2024) zu "Nikolaus Heinzer: Wolfsmanagement in der Schweiz | Elisa Frank: Vom Umgang mit einem multiplen Tier", S. 348-354. URL: https://zekw.de/ojs/index.php/zekw/article/view/1233/1192. 

Seminars

• Extinction Studies: About Cultural Practices in Dealing with Dying Species (winter term 2024/25)
• To Read and Understand Scientific Texts – Reading Course (summer term 2024 and winter term 2023/24)
• 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)