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Environmental Humanities Reading Group

The Environmental Humanities Reading Group is an online event, which takes place Mondays throughout the semester, once to twice a month. The aim of the group is to discuss and express opinions about critical issues within the environmental humanities.
Additionally, one of the core objectives of the group is to read a broad variety of material within the environmental humanities.

Selected new material within the field of the environmental humanities ranges from book chapters, journal articles, poetry to opera texts and more. These excerpts are usually distributed one week in advance. When possible, the authors of the literature being read are invited to join the discussion. Please note that sometimes the time of the meeting will be changed for special events to accommodate authors in different time zones.

For information on how to join the reading group or for the full list of material covered, please contact Regina Bichler by email at regina.bichler@campus.lmu.de or Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova at ucfamut@alumni.ucl.ac.uk.

Upcoming Events

New events to come soon.

Notable Past Events

  • 19 February 2024: Maya Hey. “Communicating with the Microbial Other: Reorienting Humans and Microbes in Polylogue.” Global Media Journal -- Canadian Edition 15, no. 1 (2023): 11–25. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/CXM83.
  • 15 January 2024: Bettina Stoetzer. Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
  • 16 October 2023: Simone Müller. The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
  • 18 September 2023: Juno Salazar Parreñas. Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
  • 14 August 2023: Irus BravermanSettling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
  • 31 July 2023: Weihong Bao. “Set Design Thinking and the Art of the Human.” Critical Inquiry 49, no. 3 (2023): 428–61. https://doi.org/10.1086/723722.
  • 5 June 2023: Diana Villanueva and contributing author Scott Slovic (with Lorraine Kerslake and Carmen Flys-Junquera). Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
  • 22 May 2023: Lisa Doeland. “At Home in an Unhomely World: On Living with Waste.” Detritus, no. 6 (2019): 4–10. https://doi.org/10.31025/2611-4135/2019.13820.
  • 8 May 2023: Gregg MitmanEmpire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia. New York: The New Press, 2023.
  • 24 April 2023: Christof MauchParadise Blues: Traveling through the Nature and History of the USA (English version forthcoming).

RCC Reading Group Archive