The Philology Garden, Salzburg, 17–20 September 2025

We invite applications to the Philology Garden, a socio-ecological awareness retreat for doctoral students and early-career scholars in Classical, Medieval and Modern Languages and Literatures. 

This three-day retreat offers space for reflection, dialogue and re-orientation to support doctoral and early-career researchers in philological disciplines – broadly understood as Classical, Medieval and Modern Languages and Literatures – whose work engages or wishes to engage in new ways with the contemporary socio-ecological predicament (known also by other names such as polycrisis or the Anthropocene). Together we ask: * How do I continue to work in a volatile world? * What do my studies mean in a rapidly destabilizing global-political, planetary-ecological and cultural-medial context? * How can I dismantle destructive or counter-productive aspects of 'business as usual', in and beyond academia? * What are the potentially regenerative or healing effects of the philologies? 

The Philology Garden explores the distinctive perspectives and potentials of philological and literary studies among a spectrum of cultural practices that can support wiser responses to intertwined crises of ecology, climate, media, mental well-being and socio-ecological justice. 

To find out more, including how to apply, go to: https://philologygarden.wordpress.com/

The Philology Garden is funded by the University of Salzburg and the Salzburg Arts and Knowledges consortium. 

Further queries can be addressed to Caitríona Ní Dhúill (caitriona.nidhuill@plus.ac.at) and Conor Brennan (conor.brennan@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk)