Navigating the Public Environmental Humanities
The Edinburgh Environmental Humanities PhD Lab is hosting a one-day event bringing together doctoral students for a series of talks and workshops on the Public Environmental Humanities, run by leading scholars and practitioners in the field. While engaging various publics has long been an endeavour of the Environmental Humanities, a recent agenda-setting article (Van Dooren et al., 2024), new master’s programmes dedicated to the topic and a rise in environmentally-focused Collaborative Doctoral Awards signal a renewed focus on collaborating beyond the academy. While this emphasis promises students tangible ‘impacts’ of their research, navigating research design, execution, and dissemination with different publics presents ethical, methodological, and epistemological challenges. Together we will explore how to apply unique interdisciplinary methods from the Environmental Humanities to research with communities, artists, policymakers, organisations, and other publics. PhD students working in the Environmental Humanities are invited to join us for the day in Edinburgh followed by an evening meal at Tuktuk Indian Street Food.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Transport support is available.
Van Dooren, T. et al. (2024) ‘Developing the Public Environmental Humanities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons’, Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities, 11(2–3), pp. 6–44. Available at: doi.org/10.1353/res.2024.a953845.
If you have questions about this event, please email h.d.crisp@stir.ac.uk.
Please complete the registration form by Wednesday 29 April. We will confirm if you have a place by Friday 1 May.
