Upcoming events: 13 Novembre/November, 10.30 a.m. Ca’ Bottacin

“Cornell is uniquely positioned to take part in the growth of the environmental humanities, between its reputation in humanities and in the agricultural and life sciences, as well as series co-sponsors the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and the Society for the Humanities,” says series co-organizer George Hutchinson, Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture in the Department of English and director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. Amitav Ghosh. Environmental Humanities and Theologies shows that some of these ways are problematic. Environmental Humanities Speaker Series.

The Routledge Environmental Humanities Series seeks to engage with contemporary environmental challenges through the various lenses of the humanities and to explore foundational issues in environmental justice, multicultural environmentalism, ecofeminism, environmental psychology, environmental materialities and textualities, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, environmental communication and information management, multispecies relationships, and related topics. Environmental Humanities is a peer-reviewed, international, open-access journal. This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain. Contributors address the influence of Environmental Humanities and ways in which we might use this field of study, offering insights into the interactions… Held at the Australian Museum, this lecture series will offer a range of talks by leading international scholars in Environmental Humanities and explore important roles that the humanities can play in addressing some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our … She teaches and writes about ecofeminism, environmental justice, and sustainability. Three more lectures will be held in the spring:

Praise for A Cultural History of Climate Change (2016): A Cultural History of Climate Change shows that the humanities are not simply a late-arriving appendage to Earth System science, to help in the work of translation. A&S Communications

Upcoming events: Linda B. Glaser,  Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911.

At the center of this transformation is human culture, both contributing to the state of the world and responding to planetary change.

Spring 2020. She teaches and writes about ecofeminism, environmental justice, and sustainability. Animals in the right numbers are accepted and even welcomed, but when they are seen to deviate from the human-declared set point, they ... Vivienne Westbrook, Shaun Collin, Dean Crawford, Mark Nicholls

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L’isola dei fucili (Neri Pozza 2019) L’autore discute con/The author discusses with Anna Nadotti (ENG/ITA), Venues:

hsc@unive.it, The calendar will continue into July 2020, so please check back for updates on the second part of the series, starting in February 2020, All Rights reserved © 2018 HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series (I), https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/slide_environmental_humanities_2019-1024x576.jpg, https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g. Reflecting on waste in the context of sustainability, materiality, social practices, subjectivity and environmental challenges, the book covers a wide range of settings, from the municipal garbage crisis in Beirut, to food... Torsten Meireis, Gabriele Rippl The Uses of Environmental Humanities series explores diverse and creative ways of thinking with Environmental Humanities in responding to socio-environmental challenges. Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, L’iscrizione ai *seminari è obbligatoria/ These essays offer distinctive insights into how and why humans reason and imagine their ‘weather-worlds’ (Ingold, 2010). “Cornell is uniquely positioned to take part in the growth of the environmental humanities, between its reputation in humanities and in the agricultural and life sciences, as well as series co-sponsors the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and the Society for the Humanities,” says series co-organizer George Hutchinson, Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture in the Department of English and director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. We favor manuscripts aimed at an international readership and written in a lively and accessible style.

October 18, 2019. The journal publishes outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship that draws humanities disciplines into conversation with each other, and with the natural and social sciences, around significant environmental issues. The 2017-18 Environmental Humanities Lecture Series is sponsored by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Society for the Humanities, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Departments of English, Comparative Literature, and Science and Technology Studies; and the American Studies Program. ... Andrea Kiss, Kathleen Pribyl

May 1, 2018: Rob Nixon, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University. This series in environmental humanities offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from interdisciplinary environmental perspectives.

December 04, 2019. April 12, 2018: Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature, Harvard University 

Her talk, “Mothers, Children and Nuclear Stories” on Wed., Oct. 4, 4:30 pm in Goldwin Smith’s Lewis Auditorium, is free and open to the public. Our fourth and final Environmental Humanities Speaker Series event, hosted in conjunction with the Rowan Center for Responsible Leadership, was April 22, 2020. “In the new geological era called the Anthropocene, the future of life and pathways to sustainability cannot be imagined without close attention to the very human agents whose imaginations and activities have profoundly transformed every element of the planet,” says series co-organizer Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature. Purely scientific, economic, and incentive-driven management solutions to problems like climate change, water security, and environmental justice no longer seem adequate, giving rise to a new interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities.

seminars: Aula seminari HSC (primo piano)/ HSC seminar room (1st floor), Ca’ Dolfin, Dorsoduro 3825/D Purely scientific, economic, and incentive-driven management solutions to problems like climate change, water security, and environmental justice no longer seem adequate, giving rise to a new interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities.

From microplastics in the sea to hyper-trends such as global climate change, mega-extinction, and widening social disparities and displacement, we live on a planet undergoing tremendous flux and uncertainty. In critical dialogue with meteorology and climate science, this book takes the reader beyond the ... Anitra Nelson, Ferne Edwards Thu, 09/28/2017, Can science alone deliver us from environmental catastrophe? Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Emanuele Montibeller, Arte Sella: l’arte incontra la natura (ITA), 5 Dicembre/December: 5.30 p.m. Ca’ Bottacin Interested in proposing a book for a book series? Grazia Francescato, L’arte eretica della sostenibilità (ITA), 10 Dicembre/December, 2.00 p.m. Ca’ Bottacin Dr Paul Warde, Reader in Environmental History, University of Cambridge, UK, Christina Alt, St Andrews University, UK, Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales, Australia, Peter Coates, University of Bristol, UK, Thom van Dooren, University of New South Wales, Australia, Georgina Endfield, Liverpool UK, Jodi Frawley, University of Western Australia, Andrea Gaynor, The University of Western Australia, Australia, Christina Gerhardt, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA,□Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA, Jennifer Newell, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia , Simon Pooley, Imperial College London, UK, Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota, US, Jessica Weir, University of Western Sydney, Australia, William Beinart,University of Oxford, UK, Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, USA, Poul Holm, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Shen Hou, Renmin University of China, Beijing, Rob Nixon, Princeton University, USA, Pauline Phemister, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK, Sverker Sörlin, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum, Munich and Co-Director, Rachel Carson Centre, LMU Munich University, Germany, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, USA, Kirsten Wehner, University of London, UK, Naturebot Unconventional Visions of Nature, Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City, Food for Degrowth Perspectives and Practices, Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene A Postcolonial Critique, The Temporalities of Waste Out of Sight, Out of Time, Cultural Sustainability Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, Environmental Humanities and Theologies Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible, The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe Environmental Stress, Mortality and Social Response, Writing a New Environmental Era Moving forward to nature, Animals Count How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations, Sharks in the Arts From Feared to Revered.