Environmental Humanities Reading Group in Collaboration with Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network

The Environmental Humanities Hub is co-hosting a collaborative session of the reading group series from our colleagues at The Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network. We will discuss world-making and world-taking.

We will be discussing the following texts, news items and images:

Wenzel, Jennifer, ‘Reading for the Planet INTRODUCTION,’ in The Disposition of Nature, Fordham Univ Press, (2020).
Melisa Hobson, ‘This isn’t a starfish0 it’s a rare sand found only in Japan,‘ National Geographic, Science (2024).
Chris Jordan, ‘Midway, Message from the Gyre (2009-2013)’. www.chrisjordan.com/Midway/1/thumbs-caption

Please contact Dr Martha Swift (martha.swift@ell.ox.ac.uk) for details of the Zoom call or if you having trouble accessing any of the resources.

The session should run for approximately one hour.

Date: 8 November 2024, 10:30
Venue: Venue to be announced
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk
Host: Martha Swift
Part of: Environmental Humanities Research Hub
Booking required?: Required
Audience: Members of the University only
This talk features in the following public collections:
- Faculty of English What’s On: events and talks of interest
Editor: Martha Swift