Environmental Humanities Lab

The HRC’s Environmental Humanities Lab is a convening ground centering humanistic inquiry in a broader field of transdisciplinary environmental scholarship. We understand Environmental Humanities as an interdisciplinary mode of inquiry that seeks to understand, interpret, and diagnose how social and cultural relationships with the natural world are mediated by texts, media, art, history, and embodied experience. In 2022-23 year, the Lab’s projects center questions of environmental “modes of study.” From exploring the philosophical significance of ecologically-oriented loose parts play, to Black- and Indigenous-led community agricultural projects to re-evaluations of universities’ many roles in perpetuating the climate crisis, we are exploring both practical and speculative infrastructural transformations that can lay the foundations for meaningful social and ecological transformations.

Environmental Humanities Lab

Meet the Team

Jesse Goldstein

Jesse Goldstein, Ph.D.

Lab Director

Jesse Goldstein is an associate professor of Sociology, and author of Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism. His work explores the cultural political economy of rich world environmentalism, from biomimicry and other techno-fixes to the logics of settler futurity and green Keynesianism.

 

 

Upcoming Events

Malik Yakini
Malik Yakini

February 21, 2023

Growing Kale, Shifting Power and Building Food Sovereignty

6:00 p.m. (hybrid event)

Institute for Contemporary Art

The speaker for this event is Malik Yakini, co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.

Heather Davis
Heather Davis

March 2, 2023

Petro-Time

6:00 p.m. (hybrid event)

Location TBA

The speaker for this event is Heather Davis, assistant professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York.

Bathsheba Demuth
Bathsheba Demuth, Ph.D.

May 1, 2023

Do Whales Judge Us?: Interspecies History and Ethics

4:00 p.m. (hybrid event)

Institute for Contemporary Art

The speaker for this event is Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.

Programming

Beyond Sustainability

Past Events