In critical dialogue with meteorology and climate science, this book takes the reader beyond the ... Anitra Nelson, Ferne Edwards Amitav Ghosh. 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. Emanuele Montibeller, Arte Sella: l’arte incontra la natura (ITA), 5 Dicembre/December: 5.30 p.m. Ca’ Bottacin Naturebot: Unconventional Visions of Nature presents a humanities-oriented addition to the literature on biomimetics and bioinspiration, an interdisciplinary field which investigates what it means to mimic nature with technology. The 2017-18 Environmental Humanities Lecture Series will bring to campus four pioneering scholars in the environmental humanities, beginning with Heidi Hutner (Stony Brook University). This book is the most thorough exploration to date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms. The series is premised on the notion that the arts, humanities, and social sciences, integrated with the natural sciences. Spring 2020. seminars: Aula seminari HSC (primo piano)/ HSC seminar room (1st floor), Ca’ Dolfin, Dorsoduro 3825/D L’isola dei fucili (Neri Pozza 2019) L’autore discute con/The author discusses with Anna Nadotti (ENG/ITA), Venues: May 1, 2018: Rob Nixon, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University. Three more lectures will be held in the spring: The environmental humanities are a multidimensional discipline encompassing such fields as anthropology, history, literature, theory, media studies, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, women’s and gender studies etc. Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911. If the political and social benchmarks of sustainability and sustainable development are to be met, ignoring the role of the humanities and social, cultural and ethical values is highly problematic. October 30, 2020. At the center of this transformation is human culture, both contributing to the state of the world and responding to planetary change. Professor Iain McCalman, University of Sydney Research Fellow in History; Director, Sydney University Environment Institute. Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, L’iscrizione ai *seminari è obbligatoria/ October 18, 2019. Her current book project is titled “Accidents Can Happen: Mothers, Gender, and Nuclear Stories,” and she has a number of chapters on nuclear issues and gender forthcoming in anthologies. Environmental Humanities is a peer-reviewed, international, open-access journal. Can science alone deliver us from environmental catastrophe? Writing a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. This series in environmental humanities offers approaches to medieval, early modern, and global pre-industrial cultures from interdisciplinary environmental perspectives. 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. 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 … Linda B. Glaser, Her current book project is titled “Accidents Can Happen: Mothers, Gender, and Nuclear Stories,” and she has a number of chapters on nuclear issues and gender forthcoming in anthologies. 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. Professor Libby Robin, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra; Guest Professor of Environmental History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden. Our fourth and final Environmental Humanities Speaker Series event, hosted in conjunction with the Rowan Center for Responsible Leadership, was April 22, 2020. 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. Upcoming events: 13 Novembre/November, 10.30 a.m. Ca’ Bottacin This book uses established icons of popular visual... Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan, Karma Eddison-Cogan Environmental Humanities and Theologies shows that some of these ways are problematic. 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 The environmental humanities are a multidimensional discipline encompassing such fields as anthropology, history, literary and media studies, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and women’s and gender studies; however, the Routledge Environmental Humanities is particularly eager to receive book proposals that explicitly cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, bringing the full force of multiple perspectives to illuminate vexing and profound environmental topics.
Hutner is director of sustainability studies, associate dean in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and associate professor of sustainability and English at Stony Brook University. Thu, 09/28/2017, Can science alone deliver us from environmental catastrophe? This technology mirrors the biodiversity of nature and it is ... Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas argues that imagining catastrophe can offer alternatives to and critiques of capitalist logics in the urban world. ... Andrea Kiss, Kathleen Pribyl November 23, 2020. 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. Marco Armiero, Storia ambientale, ovvero come godersi un po’ di riconoscimento accademico senza essere (troppo) disciplinati (ITA), 29 Gennaio/January, 5.30 p.m. Ca’ Dolfin This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain. Professor Mike Hulme, King's College London, in Green Letters, Professor Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, USA, Professor Joni Adamson, Arizona State University, USA. She teaches and writes about ecofeminism, environmental justice, and sustainability. The Center for the Humanities and Social Change is organising a series of seminars and lectures revolving around the Environmental Humanities from a wide array of perspectives. 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.
lectures: Aula A 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. “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. Registration is required for *seminars: March 04, 2020. 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. It also provides alternative ways that value both materiality and spirituality. The Uses of Environmental Humanities series explores diverse and creative ways of thinking with Environmental Humanities in responding to socio-environmental challenges. Hutner has published numerous articles and chapters on a wide variety of environmental issues in academic and popular news publications and hosts a sustainability webisode, Coffee with Hx2 on which she interviews sustainability scholars, writers, activists, artists, and scientists. She teaches and writes about ecofeminism, environmental justice, and sustainability.