BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:44fc0495e77f440f31a3d31524e920c8 CATEGORIES:Polar Conferences, Meetings and Events CREATED:20200826T121920 SUMMARY:Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION:

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

This international endeavor will bring t ogether scholars, researchers, and artists working across the humanities an d 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 i nsights uniquely possible through an Arctic lens. Presentations and convers ations 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 Stava nger, Norway) on 1 September 2020 - “The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway,” a project about muskox hunting and farming and the large r 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 ha s also edited several books, including Northscapes: History, Techn ology, & 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 Greenhous e environmental humanities research group; and
Professor Sverker Sö rlin (Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment & KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, at the KTH Royal Institute of Technolo gy, Stockholm) - Details of Professor Sörlin’s presentation will be announc ed soon on the AEH website.

For more i nformation and to register, go to:
Arctic Environmenta l Humanities Workshop Series webpage

For questions, contact:
Adriana Craciun
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Pho ne: 510-517-4465

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