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Exponential: collections from 10 to 100 million years and beyond
EEHN member David Farrier joined other Edinburgh academics and artists for Exponential, an exhibition at the University’s Talbot Rice gallery that reflected on what the planet will look like between 10 years and 100 million years in the future. Mixing speculative talks with experimental poetic and musical performances, Exponential is an invitation for us to […]
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Call for Papers: Ecology, Economy, and Cultures of Resistance: Oikoi of the North American World
A two-day symposium at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. 29-30 June 2017 Ecology and economy are inextricable. From the ‘oeconomy of nature’ theorized by Thomas Burnet, and later Carl Linnaeus, to the recent turn in the social sciences that reconsiders the Anthropocene as the Capitalocene, the interwoven global history […]
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New EEHN member publication in Aeon Magazine
EEHN member David Farrier has a new ‘Ideas’ piece in Aeon Magazine. You can read ‘Deep Time’s Uncanny Future is Full of Ghostly Human Traces’ here: https://aeon.co/ideas/deep-time-s-uncanny-future-is-full-of-ghostly-human-traces Image: Abandoned homes in Pripyat, 2km from Chernobyl. Photo by Dana Sacchetti/IAEA Imagebank
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Walking the Environmental Humanities: A Walkshop with Natural Change (18th October 2016)
The Edinburgh Environmental Humanities network is now three years old, and before starting up our programme of activities for 16/17 we wanted to take some time to reconnect with each other and our current interests. Often we have gathered to share our insights and explore new ideas in traditional seminar rooms and lecture halls and […]
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EEHN member appointed to tenured lectureship
We’re delighted to announce that our much-valued member, Dr Jeremy Kidwell, has been appointed to a permanent lectureship at the University of Birmingham. Jeremy will be Lecturer in Theological Ethics from 1st September. We’re really looking forward to exploring Midlothian – West Midlands links!
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Watch Edinburgh International Festival’s Deep Time Event
The opening of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival was a spectacular visualisation of the city 350 million years in the making. ‘Deep Time’ – a celebration of the work of James Hutton, the Edinburgh-born ‘father of geology’ – projected an astounding light show onto the side of Edinburgh Castle. Spectators saw Castle Rock rise and […]
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New Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Visiting Fellows for 2016-17
We’re delighted to announce our Environmental Humanities Visiting Fellows for 2016-17. In the autumn term Dr Sarah Daw of the University of Exeter will be in Edinburgh to work on “Unknowing Nature: The Development of Ecological Thinking in American Science and Literature from 1945,” a comparative study of the language of ecology in American popular […]
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EEHN welcomes Dr Sam Walton as our new Environmental Humanities visiting fellow
We’re thrilled to have Dr Sam Walton, of Bath Spa University, here with us over the summer. Sam is an academic and poet, and holds a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award. She is also the organiser of the Landscaping Change project, which explores the meaning of place and the impact felt when those places […]
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Owain Jones (Bath Spa University), ‘On Ecocide, Haunting and (self)Destruction: (hugging the lamppost till the train passes)’
This paper addresses the business of being haunted by the current ecological crisis and particularly the sixth mass extinction (ecocide) now well under way. What is it to knowingly be a member of what will be “the most hated generation in human history?” (Stengers) What haunts is not a simple loss of biodiversity, but a […]
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Deep Time & Haunting Keynote Lecture: Astrid E.J. Ogilvie (INSTAAR and Stefansson Arctic Institute), ‘Weather and Witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders’
The wish to be able to control the weather is a deep-seated human desire. In countries where the weather is capricious and frequently wet and stormy it is not surprising that supposed magical control of the weather has been elevated to a high art. In Iceland the importance of climate and weather in daily life […]
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