{"id":2165,"date":"2014-10-03T15:29:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:14:57","slug":"environmental-humanities-reading-group-new-members-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/10\/03\/environmental-humanities-reading-group-new-members-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental humanities reading group &#8211; new members welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, <\/strong><strong>Wednesday, October 8 &#8211; <\/strong><strong>RS4 Rutherford College<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 <strong><em>environmental philosophy<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>environmental history<\/strong>, <strong>eco-criticism<\/strong>, and <strong>environmental anthropology<\/strong>). 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Environmental Humanities Reading Group is assembling this autumn at the University of Kent, every two weeks from October 8 forward.\u00a0 We will be discussing, among other things, methodologies, issues, research projects, and opportunities in the field.\u00a0 Snacks and stimulating beverages will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>The first meeting will feature Linn\u00e9a Rowlatt introducing environmental history and her favourite methodology, the interactive model of socio-economic metabolism.\u00a0 How do you bridge the conceptual gap between Nature and Culture?<\/p>\n<p>For the readings, please contact Linn\u00e9a at <a href=\"mailto:lr262@kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">lr262@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Wednesday, October 8 &#8211; RS4 Rutherford College The Environmental Humanities are an interdisciplinary area of research, drawing on the many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/10\/03\/environmental-humanities-reading-group-new-members-welcome\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[872],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}