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3/24/20 - We are sorry, but this event has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We wish everyone good health and community strength.

The Environmental Humanities Research Workshop and doctoral candidate Bonnie Etherington (English/Northwestern) will host a day-long symposium on oceans and the blue humanities on May 22, 2020.

The schedule is still in the works but an exceptional lineup of confirmed speakers to date includes:

Elizabeth DeLoughrey, English, UCLA

Vicente Diaz, American Indian Studies, Minnesota

Elizabeth Hennessey, History, Wisconsin

Sarah Dimick, Environmental Studies/English, Lafayette

Harris Feinsod, English, Northwestern

This entry will be updated as more details become available. You can also visit the Environmental Humanities Research Workshop web page here.

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The Environmental Humanities Research Workshop of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities fosters a community of scholars at Northwestern and in the Chicago area who are interested in what we have broadly termed the environmental humanities. Workshop participants share an interest in questions of nature, science, ethics, aesthetics, environmental policy, and the shifting relationships between the human and the non-human, as well as in refining our understanding of what “the environmental humanities” comprises. The Environmental Humanities Research Workshop hosts informal discussions about provocative pieces of scholarship as well as works-in-progress, and organizes public talks by established scholars whose work has helped define and expand humanistic approaches to environmental issues.

To join the Environmental Humanities listserv, please email:
Corey Byrnes (corey.byrnes@northwestern.edu) or Keith Woodhouse (keith.woodhouse@northwestern.edu).