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

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

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!

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

EEHN and Edinburgh International Festival’s Deep Time

After the spectacular Harmonium Project event which opened the Edinburgh International Festival last year, there has been a great deal of excitement about this year’s Deep Time. With a sell-out performance planned for this Sunday, we wanted to share some of the involvement that members of EEHN have had in its

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

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

CfP: Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time: Violence

Call for Papers: Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time: Violence 22nd-23rd February 2016 Board Room, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh The second workshop in the Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time series, organised by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network There is a one in 59,000 chance – give or take

CFP: Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time – Enchantment

Call for Papers: Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time: Enchantment Thursday, 26th November 2015 Andrew Grant Lecture Theatre, Evolution House, West Port, Edinburgh College of Art Organised by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network ****Deadline for CFP extended to the 26th of October****  Earlier this year the discovery of homo naledi propelled

‘Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time’: EEHN Receives Funding Award

We’re pleased to announce that EEHN has been made an International Interdisciplinary Research Group, courtesy of funding from the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities. This award will allow us to host a series of visiting scholars over the coming academic year, to join us in considering our common