Description:

Featuring scholars and students working in the Environmental Humanities at other institutions, this workshop/roundtable is designed to start a conversation about next steps in building long lasting structures for the Environmental Humanities at Northwestern. Please join us in learning from:

Allison Carruth (Princeton, American Studies and High Meadows Environmental Institute), who directs the Blue Lab at Princeton and who served as the inaugural director of the UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS).

Elizabeth Hennessy (Wisconsin, History and Environmental Studies), who formerly served as faculty advisor for the digital magazine Edge Effects, which is produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), under the umbrella of Wisconsin’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. 

Weishun Lu (English, PhD candidate, Wisconsin), who is the current Managing Editor of Edge Effects.

Paul Sabin (Yale, History and American Studies), who directs the Environmental Humanities Program at Yale.

The Environmental Humanities Workshop of the Kaplan Humanities Institute is a community of scholars who 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.