5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Wednesday, October 8 – RS4 Rutherford College
The Environmental Humanities are an interdisciplinary area of research, drawing on the many environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged in the humanities over the past several decades (in particular environmental philosophy, environmental history, eco-criticism, and environmental anthropology). Scholars working in the Environmental Humanities, or Ecological Humanities, as they are sometimes known, aim to help bridge traditional divides between the sciences and the humanities, and between Western, Eastern and Indigenous ways of knowing the natural world and the place of humans in it.
The Environmental Humanities Reading Group is assembling this autumn at the University of Kent, every two weeks from October 8 forward. We will be discussing, among other things, methodologies, issues, research projects, and opportunities in the field. Snacks and stimulating beverages will be provided.
The first meeting will feature Linnéa Rowlatt introducing environmental history and her favourite methodology, the interactive model of socio-economic metabolism. How do you bridge the conceptual gap between Nature and Culture?
For the readings, please contact Linnéa at lr262@kent.ac.uk.