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The EH consensus (?)

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , on October 9, 2024 | Leave a Comment »

The field I’ve worked in for the last few decades, which has come to be known as the Environmental Humanities (capitalized or not), is one that requires keeping up with ongoing scholarship not only in the humanities, but also in the social sciences and the biological and earth sciences. From my reading of the field, […]

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Woodsworth Chair: Three challenges

Posted in Academe, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 22, 2023 | 6 Comments »

I’m delighted to formally announce that I have accepted an offer to take up the position of J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, beginning next year. (Simon Fraser recently, once again, took the top spot among comprehensive universities in Macleans’ Canadian university rankings.) The chair is named after J. S. Woodsworth (1874-1942), […]

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How decolonizing science makes for better science

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 3, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Two new publications — one in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the other in The Atlantic — help make a point that critics of the “Anthropocene” (the name, not the geological designation) have been making for years: that it’s not humanity that is somehow at fault for the ecological crisis, since […]

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Eco-humanities seminar

Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , on January 29, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

I will be making parts of my “Advanced Environmental Humanities” course open to the EcoCultureLab community and a limited broader public. Technical details remain to be worked out, but I’d like to make our readings and discussions open, so as to include interested participants from outside the university community. The course is a graduate and […]

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Feverish world, or ecotopia now?

Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , on November 21, 2018 | 6 Comments »

Feverish World (2016-2068): Arts and Sciences of Collective Survival was premised on the acknowledgment that the coming decades will be feverish in more ways than one — climatologically, politically, economically, militarily — and that the arts will be essential in helping us come to terms with that feverishness. In my comments opening the symposium, I laid […]

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Ecocritical blooms

Posted in Academe, tagged , , on July 23, 2016 | 26 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. […]

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Toward telling an adequate story

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2016 | 11 Comments »

This post builds on the previous one on the state of the eco-humanities. Here I focus on the substantive elements for narratives adequate to the Anthropocene. One of the challenges of our time is to learn to tell an adequate story of humanity’s current predicament. Next spring’s Stories for the Anthropocene Festival in Stockholm aims to deal with this challenge. Numerous […]

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State of the Eco-Humanities, Take 1

Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , 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, […]

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Eco-humanities glossolalia

Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, tagged , on September 18, 2015 | 3 Comments »

I’ve just come across the earliest outline I wrote for the course I’m currently teaching (in its third incarnation), “Environmental Literature, Arts, and Media.” The course has also turned into a book project I’m working on, which will be a thematic primer to the environmental arts and humanities. Both course and book have changed shape so […]

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33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon, revisited)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 9, 2015 | 10 Comments »

The following is a significantly revised version of an article I posted to the Indications blog (and etc) five and a half years ago. I was curious to see how much of it still holds (a lot, I think), so I’ve revisited it and expanded its proposed sort-of-canon, in the second part of what follows, into a list of […]

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Upcoming: ecomusics, climate change culture, etc.

Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , on September 30, 2014 | 1 Comment »

I am about to travel to Asheville, North Carolina, for the Ecomusics and Ecomusicologies conference, to be held from Thursday through Monday at the University of North Carolina Asheville. The international conference, which has become an annual event (it met previously in Brisbane, Australia, and in New Orleans), brings together theorists and researchers with performers and practitioners. Panels on topics including “musical […]

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EMI on Enviro Humanities Book Chat

Posted in Cinema, tagged , , , on September 15, 2014 | 3 Comments »

The third edition of the Environmental Humanities Book Chat features a discussion of my Ecologies of the Moving Image. Discussants include the Royal Institute of Technology’s Anna Åberg, organizer of the “Tales from Planet Earth” film festival and conference, Seth Peabody of Harvard University (and a Rachel Carson Center fellow), and moderator Hannes Bergthaller of National Chung-Hsing University (Taiwan) and Würzburg […]

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