Shifting Grounds: Literature, Culture and Spatial Phenomenologies
This international conference responds to the recent return of phenomenological perspectives in literary and cultural criticism, and in the field of spatiality in particular. It aims to probe how a focus on sensory impressions and “the perspective of experience”... read more
Fare arte nel nostro tempo — Giardini Gardens 18 Nov – 19 Nov 2016
Giardini Gardens is a two-day event that examines the interface between art and gardens. The talks will be held in Italian. ... read more
Überleben im Anthropozän – Surviving the Anthropocene: Einblicke in die Environmental Humanities — 10 November – 15 Dezember 2016
This series of lectures will take place every Thursday in Zürich, Switzerland from 10 November – 15 December 2016, at UZH, room KO2 F 180. You can stream recordings of the lectures from UZH to your personal device here. Überblick: Wir leben in einem neuen... read more
Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language — 23-25 June 2016
… we have been forced to rethink our place and function in the collective environment of planet Earth.
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Biohacking or Ecohacking?
Biohacking or Ecohacking?
… Artists and Scientists Merging Together in one Evening
June 7th, 2016, 18.00 – 19.30
Salotto Café, Hardturmstrasse 169, CH-8005 Zurich.
Storytelling about climate change at the “Klimagarten 2085”
By Dr. Juanita Schläpfer, ETH Zürich Climate change has been communicated as a global concern affecting all of mankind; but this message doesn’t seem to be getting through. If indeed the human brain responds better to experience than to analysis, then climate change... read more
‘Environmental Humanities’ (EH, Umwelt-Geisteswissenschaften / Sciences humaines de l’environnement / Scienze umane dell’ambiente) is a new interdisciplinary research field that explores environmental issues through the methods and insights of the humanities. Historic, social, philosophical, and cultural insights offer fresh perspectives for addressing and understanding complex environmental problems. This rapidly growing research field aims to identify effective, sustainable, and equitable ways of living within the earth’s natural limits. Such areas as history, human geography, philosophy, ethics, literature and arts, ethnobotany, and law provide important venues for understanding environmental issues, but combining synergistic and novel insights of these fields in new ways is the promise of environmental humanities. Natural sciences are also integral to environmental humanities, though not as ways to define environmental problems but as partners for enriching their humanistic understanding.
“The enormous scope and complexity of today’s environmental problems require knowledge derived from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities”
Philippe Forêt“The EH Working Group aims to join researchers from the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences from several Swiss universities working on both sides of the Röstigraben”
Christoph Kueffer