• Environmental Humanities Fellowships at Edinburgh

    The Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network are pleased to announce that the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (IASH) has awarded two Environmental Humanities fellows for 2015-16. Between September and October 2015 Dr Derek Gladwin of the University of British Columbia will take up a fellowship in Edinburgh, to work

  • EEHN member’s new new Artangel commission

    EEHN member Maria Fusco has been selected for a new Artangel commission to take place in Scotland in 2014. Maria will realise a site specific performance and work for radio shaped by a cavernous space excavated inside a mountain near the appropriately named Loch Awe. For more information, please see

  • CFP Immortality and Infinitude in the Anthropocene: Symposium, KTH Stockholm

    Call for papers for a symposium on Immortality and Infinitude in the Anthropocene at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (2-4 December 2014) organised by network member Michelle Bastian with Thom van Dooren. Full details are here: http://www.immortalityandinfinitude.net The symposium aims to explore the shifting relationships between time, mortality

  • New member publications

    Volume 4 of Environmental Humanities includes the work of two EEH network members. The issue features a special section, ‘Living with Awkward Creatures: Vulnerability, Togetherness, Killing,’ which includes an essay on alternative apiculture by Kelsey Green Franklin Ginn; volume 4 also has an essay by David Farrier on Anthropocene poetics. The

  • Landscapes of Hope: Towards the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, IASH, 27TH February 2014

    On 27 February 2014, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities played host to over 30 academics from Edinburgh and further afield, who gathered to explore landscape as a locus of hope. Organized and opened by Dr Maxim Shadurski, the symposium featured 4 plenary and 5 panel presentations, which

  • Deep Time Reading Group

    As the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities network has developed it’s become apparent that a lot of our network members work on the temporal aspects of environmental crises. Consequently, members of the network have been meeting once a month since December for a ‘Deep Time’ reading group, to discuss all things both

  • Environmental Humanities-themed seminars in the department of English

    The department of English seminar series is hosting two environmental humanities-themed speakers this semester. On Friday 20th September David Farrier will give a paper entitled, ‘Reading Edward Thomas in the Anthropocene’; more excitingly, Greg Garrard, author of Ecocriticism, will give a paper on Friday 18th October (title tbc). Both events

  • Member Publication & Book Launch

    Artist and EEHN member Anne Bevan has collaborated with sculptor Andrea Roe on a two volume collection of essays on art and the environmental. ‘Things Unspoken’ (ed. Roe) and ‘Things Unseen’ (ed. Bevan) carry work by Kathleen Jamie, Jen Hadfield, and Robert Alan Jamieson, amongst others. Both volumes will be

  • Call for Papers – Art History & Ecology

    EEH member Andrew Patrizio (Edinburgh College of Art) has forwarded a call for papers for a panel on art history and ecology at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference in April 2014. For more information follow this link: http://www.aah.org.uk/media/docs/AAH%25202014%2520Conference%2520Session%2520Listings.pdf  

  • Ilana Halperin, 'Towards Heilprin Land' (Detail view) Watercolor and graphite on fabriano paper, 2006

    First Meeting

    We’re pleased to say that the first meeting of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities network took place on 12th June at IASH (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities). We heard some excellent presentations on members’ research, and had an engaging discussion afterwards about the future of the network. Anne Bevan