Astrida Neimanis (USYD) and Jennifer Hamilton (NYU Sydney) are starting a reading group exploring the links and tensions between inclusive feminisms and environmental humanities. We have put together a list for four once-monthly sessions that takes us until the end of 2015. Then, reflecting on...
Symposium call for papers Foreign Bodies, Intimate Ecologies: Transformations in Environmental History 11-13 February, 2016 Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia foreignbodiesintimateecologies.net | #FBIE2016 Environmental history has experienced significant transformations in recent years, driven by a new sense of urgency created by contemporary environmental crises and greater degrees of interdisciplinary engagement. This international...
Deb Anderson, Monash University CSIRO Publishing Endurance presents stories of ordinary Australians grappling with extraordinary circumstances, providing insight into their lives, their experiences with drought and their perceptions of climate change. The book opens with the physical impacts, science, politics and economics of drought and climate change in...
A new report "Developing the Environmental Humanities in Switzerland: An Evaluation of Opportunities, Challenges, and Priorities in Research, Teaching, and Institutional Support" by Christoph Kueffer, Philippe Foret and Marcus Hall, and commissioned by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences is now available (PDF) The...
Lectures from the Affective Habitus conference (June 2014) are now online at: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/affective-habitus.aspx Further talks will be added as they are edited and uploaded. ...
A retreat on 7-8 November on the shores of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake of the four-forested cantons) brought together nine brainstormers of five nationalities and multiple disciplines from across the country to determine the future directions of Environmental Humanities in Switzerland and beyond. The group's aim is...
Organizers: Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann This Mellon Sawyer Seminar on the Environmental Humanities will bring visiting scholars from around the US and the world to UCLA for monthly seminars during the 2014-2015 academic year. Seminar attendees will not listen to lectures or...