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Humanities for the Environment

2015 June 10
by Shared by Steve Rust

Exciting things are underway at the Humanities for the Environment initiative. Be sure to check out the website and like the group Facebook page.

Here’s some key information from their “About” page:

 

The urgent challenge being examined in Humanities for the Environments ongoing research is to learn how to adapt to and live creatively in a torrentially changing world, a world where humans have adopted modes of life that have altered the longstanding physical forces of nature in extreme, unpredictable, yet radically unjust ways, on both local and global levels.

 

HfE receives its funding as part of the larger Integrating the Humanities Across National Boundaries $1.2 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). HfE explores how the humanistic disciplines contribute to understanding and engaging with the challenges of global environmental change by observing and exploring human actions and motivations, values, priorities, and habits. HfE activities, projects, publications, conferences, workshops, and events recognize the need to change and reevaluate human ideas about rights and responsibilities to resources and to recalibrate human strategies for adaptation and survival.

Its research projects are being conducted at three international observatories, the Australia-Pacific Observatory, the European Observatory, and the North American Observatory. The Australia-Pacific Observatory is led by Iain McCalman, Professorial Research Fellow and Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney. The European Observatory is led by Poul Holm, Trinity Long Room Hub Professor of Humanities at Trinity College Dublin.

The North American Observatory is c0-led by Joni Adamson, Professor of Environmental Humanities and Senior Sustainability Scholar, and Sally Kitch, Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and Regents’ Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University.

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  1. June 15, 2015

    Hi, I’m hoping that the Humanities for the Environment link on your website can be updated.

    We have moved to a new home and would very much appreciate updates!

    http://hfe-observatories.org

    Thank you, Joni Adamson

    • June 15, 2015

      Also, and I should have said this in the early comment, I co-lead the North American Observatory, so the text above should say:

      The North American Observatory is c0-led by Joni Adamson, Professor of Environmental Humanities and Senior Sustainability Scholar, and Sally Kitch, Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and Regents’ Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University.

      Thank you! Joni Adamson Joni.Adamson@asu.edu

  2. Steve Rust permalink*
    June 17, 2015

    Changes made. Thanks Joni!

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