Environmental Humanities Symposium: The Futures of Environmental Humanities

A 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.

Afternoon Panel 1: The Futures of Environmental Humanities. The interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities has given us new ways of thinking about the humanities as applied knowledge that may help us toward sustainable futures.  The environmental humanities seeks partnerships with the social and natural sciences to intervene in our most pressing problems, including global climate change, mass species extinction, population growth, social inequity, urbanization, and globalization.  How might we position the environmental humanities at UO such that they can make essential contributions alongside other modes of inquiry?