Environmental Humanities Events
2023-2024 Events
Event details will be posted as they are scheduled!
RECLAMATION Workshop
Friday, April 5, 2024
8:45 am - 5:00 pm
Norris University Center—Arch Room
Click to the RECLAMATION event page for schedule and more details.
A one-day workshop dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches to the material, aesthetic, political, and economic dimensions of reclamation.
The RECLAMATION workshop is open to the public and will feature short talks by Northwestern faculty and graduate students, a discussion of the newly published Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making, a guided walk along the campus “lakefill,” and a talk by Sean Burkholder, Andrew Gordon Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, co-founder of the Environmental Modeling Lab (EMLab), and member of the Dredge Research Collaborative.
PAST EVENTS 2023-2024
Brown Bag/“What I’m working on now” with Michelle Huang
Monday, March 4
12:00 -1:00 pm
Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Seminar Room)
Bring your lunch for discussion with Michelle Huang (English and Asian American Studies). Michelle will share a few short pieces of work in progress, including an excerpt on the glacial sublime from her current book manuscript and a forum proposal on ethnic studies and environmental humanities.
Brown Bag/“What I’m working on now” with Hollyamber Kennedy
Tuesday, November 14
12:00 -1:00 pm
Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Seminar Room)
Our first event of the quarter is a brown bag (i.e. bring your own lunch) discussion with Hollyamber Kennedy (Art History), a scholar of architectural and landscape history newly arrived at Northwestern. The “what I’m working on now” event is a casual, social opportunity to learn more about Hollyamber’s work and to meet other members of the workshop. This will be the first of a quarterly series of brown bag events this year, so stay tuned for info about future events featuring Michelle Huang (English and AASP) and Lydia Barnett (History).
Making the Environmental Humanities: A Roundtable Discussion on Institution and Community Building
Wednesday, December 6
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Via ZOOM: bit.ly/47TrayQ
This event, which will feature scholars and students working in the Environmental Humanities at other institutions, is designed to start a conversation about next steps in building long lasting structures for the Environmental Humanities at Northwestern. Please join us in learning from:
Allison Carruth (Princeton, American Studies and High Meadows Environmental Institute), who directs the Blue Lab at Princeton and who served as the inaugural director of the UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS).
Elizabeth Hennessy (Wisconsin, History and Environmental Studies), who formerly served as faculty advisor for the digital magazine Edge Effects, which is produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), under the umbrella of Wisconsin’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Weishun Lu (English, PhD candidate, Wisconsin), who is the current Managing Editor of Edge Effects
Paul Sabin (Yale, History and American Studies), who directs the Environmental Humanities Program at Yale.
Past Events—Previous years
Click here for details about events from previous years of the Environmental Humanities Research Workshop.