Please circulate widely… FEVERISH WORLD 2018-2068: ARTS & SCIENCES OF COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL A Symposium and Convergence in Burlington, Vermont, October 20-22, 2018 Fifty years after the widespread international protests of 1968 challenged institutional norms, and some sixty years after C. P. Snow lamented the gap between academia’s “two cultures,” those of the arts and the sciences, […]
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Welcome to the Feverish World (CFP)
Posted in Academe, AnthropoScene, tagged 1968, artscience, Bruno Latour, C. P. Snow, eco-arts, EcoCulture Lab, ecopoetics, ecopolitics, Feverish World, two cultures, University of Vermont on May 25, 2018 | 4 Comments »
The academic life (thoughts for the beginning of spring)
Posted in Academe on March 22, 2018 | 6 Comments »
Or, Things I love, like, dislike, and hate about it… I love that I can research, write, talk, think, and teach about things that I’m passionate about, or at least care very much about. And because that passion derives from a sense that the world needs certain kinds of engagement and that my activity can […]
The colonization of scholarly publishing
Posted in Academe, tagged academic politics, academic publishing, Bruce Gilley, clickbait, colonialism, neoliberalism, scholarly publishing, Third World Quarterly on October 3, 2017 | 2 Comments »
For those following the debate over the article “The Case for Colonialism,” the following adds little new. It’s mostly a way of summarizing the issue and collecting some useful links in one place. There’s a lesson for academia in the flare-up over the Third World Quarterly article “The Case for Colonialism” by Bruce Gilley. The […]
Valuing public scholarship
Posted in Academe, tagged AAA, academia, community engagement, engaged research, engaged scholarship, public outreach, public scholarship, tenure and promotion on May 2, 2017 | 7 Comments »
The American Anthropological Association’s publication yesterday of guidelines on public scholarship marks a significant advance in the recognition of public scholarship within academe. Anthropology may have good reasons to be in the forefront with this, but it is not the only field in which public scholarship and community engagement are valued and recognized. Numerous efforts have […]
In search of silver linings
Posted in Academe, Politics, tagged 2016 elections, alt-right, climate justice, Donald Trump, Dugin, future of the university, Garrison Keillor, global environmental catastrophe, liberalism, meme magic, memetic warfare, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, post-cinema, progressivism, Republicans, Tom Frank, Trump on November 10, 2016 | 7 Comments »
So, Donald Trump will be president of the United States and both Congress and Senate will be dominated by Republicans. Environmentalists and social justice activists, almost universally, find this idea horrifying. But there are silver linings to be found amidst the wreckage. Let’s explore a few of them.
Sabbatical note
Posted in Academe, tagged John Livingston, Neil Evernden, personal, resourcism on September 30, 2016 | 21 Comments »
It gives me pleasure to share the news that I’ve been named the Steven Rubenstein Professor for Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. The position provides some teaching release and a budget enabling me to work on my proposed project of developing a new center for eco-arts, media, and culture (or something of the […]
Ecocritical blooms
Posted in Academe, tagged book series, Ecocritical Theory and Practice, environmental humanities on July 23, 2016 | 7 Comments »
Lexington’s Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series just got its own catalogue, which tells us the series is doing well. As is Wilfrid Laurier’s Environmental Humanities series, Routledge’s series of the same, Bloomsbury’s Environmental Cultures, and others in the same vein. I can hardly keep up. Note: The original post included an incorrect link to the Lexington series. […]
State of the Eco-Humanities, Take 1
Posted in Academe, AnthropoScene, EcoCulture, tagged academic initiatives, conferences, eco-arts, eco-humanities, engaged scholarship, environmental humanities on June 8, 2016 | 4 Comments »
This post is the first of a series of reflections on the state of the Environmental Humanities, or Eco-Humanities, and of where this interdisciplinary field might be headed. A note on terminology: The term “Environmental Humanities” has caught on in ways that “Eco-Humanities” and other variations have not, but the debate between them has hardly occurred, […]
… And what I’m reading
Posted in Academe, tagged books, readings on March 24, 2016 | 2 Comments »
Some books I’ve recently received and/or am currently reading… If you’d like to review any of them for this blog, let me know. And if there are others published in the last year that should be on this list, let me know that too (in the comments).
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