Environmental Humanities

This Connected Community is devoted to the innovative paradigm of the Environmental Humanities: it aims to explore the critical role of the humanities in a time of environmental crisis, generating socio-ecological awareness, raising informed critique of existing paradigms and systems, and sustaining social, cultural and ethical change to protect and nourish the diversity of life on our planet. Four European universities with different interdisciplinary perspectives, frameworks and experiences join to explore, compare and exchange pedagogical models and best practices, working toward a collective response to new global challenges.

Programme

This CC provides a platform where students, researchers, academic and administrative staff, as well as artists, civil society and non academic audiences join forces to develop and promote collaborative pedagogical and research initiatives. It means to develop a teaching-research environment promoting not only curriculum but also potential research development. EH students will be involved in research activities, projects and workshops, in collaboration with PhD students and researchers. The CC offers EH research-based strategies for the transformation of pedagogy, in line with EH research on ecological consciousness, environmental affect, inclusive worldmaking and critical reflection on public understandings of sustainability, ecology, disruption, and climate crisis. The CC emphasises research-oriented learning, co-production with students, and the development of experimental interdisciplinary formats, such as:

Workshops, visits and field-trips (ex. to the lagoon in Venice, the post-extractivist zones around Dresden, the historic automotive transport industry in Coventry alongside Warwickshire’s ancient woodlands—remnants of Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden, the seascapes around Lisbon and ocean history and conservation exhibitions in Portugal);

• Student exchanges;
• Open courses;
• EH Outreach seminars, Engaged Scholarship Workshops, Discussion forum;
• Public exhibitions;
• Co-creative Phd Training: Pathways to Caring & Sustainable Scholarship (based on Theory-U);
• Joint publications (ex: Lagoonscapes, Ecozon@, Ecocene);
• Joint participations in EH podcasts and blogs.

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