Environmental Humanities Symposium: Bethany Wiggin

CASA symposium hosted by the College of Arts and Science on Environmental Humanities.  We’ve invited two speakers—Gregg Mitman, Founding Director of the Center for Culture, History, and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin, and Bethany Wiggin, Director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania—to speak about their environmental humanities initiatives and talk with us about the past, present, and future of the environmental humanities.

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Bethany Wiggin is the Founding Director of the Program in Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania where she is also Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and is affiliated faculty in English and the Program in Comparative Literature. In 2016-17, she will direct the Penn Humanities Forum. She has published on topics ranging from early modern European globalism, religious radicals and their tolerance in the Atlantic world, the Atlantic slave trade and the anti-slavery movement, and the rise of fashion and commodity culture, including the modern novel. At present, she is completing Germanopolis: Utopia Found and Lost in Penn’s Woods and has recently begun a wild collaboration with artists, scholars, and public figures, The Anthropocene Catalog: Access to Tools.