Organizers announce the launch of the online Arctic Environmental Humanities (AEH) Workshop, a collaboration between Cambridge University’s Scott Polar Research Institute and Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.

This international endeavor will bring together scholars, researchers, and artists working across the humanities and humanistic social sciences, and those in polar sciences who want to join in conversations about urgent issues facing the Arctic, as well as on the insights uniquely possible through an Arctic lens. Presentations and conversations will take place in varied formats, all online and freely accessible. The perspectives and participation of northern communities and people will be particularly valuable and encouraged.

Upcoming Workshops include:

• Professor Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger, Norway) on 1 September 2020 - “The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway,” a project about muskox hunting and farming and the larger issue of northern environments and “productivity.” Professor Jørgensen’s current research agenda focuses on cultural histories of animal extinction, and she recently published Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (MIT Press, 2019). She has also edited several books, including Northscapes: History, Technology, & the Making of Northern Environments (2014) and Visions of North in Premodern Europe(2018). Professor Jørgensen is the editor of Environmental Humanities and the co-founder of The Greenhouse environmental humanities research group; and
• Professor Sverker Sörlin (Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment & KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) - Details of Professor Sörlin’s presentation will be announced soon on the AEH website.

For more information and to register, go to:
Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series webpage

For questions, contact:
Adriana Craciun
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Phone: 510-517-4465