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Workshop: "Studying the Environment – Working across Disciplines"

19.07.2013 – 21.07.2013

In recent years, a new formation—the “environmental humanities”—has emerged from critical engagements between environmental history, philosophy, ecocriticism, anthropology, and cultural geography. The critical work of the environmental humanities stands to learn from previous efforts to study and address socio-environmental problems that combine or invent new forms of knowledge. Under what conditions have such approaches produced work superior to research grounded in traditional academic disciplines such as history, geography, and biology? What are the unforeseen trade offs and pitfalls as well as the value added by crossing disciplinary boundaries in environmental studies? What specific contributions might historians make in this discourse? How might humanities scholars connect with natural scientists, and vice-versa? “Studying the Environment – Working across Disciplines” will explore these questions to generate new directions for the center's research program and mission of sponsoring world-class environmental scholarship.

Submitted papers (for participants only, password-protected).

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