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
Scenarios of Collapse: Climate Change Denial and the Responsibility of Science — 13 January 2017
As a postscript to our “Surviving the Anthropocene” Fall lecture series here at the University of Zurich, we are pleased to announce that Naomi Oreskes, air max pas cher pour homme Nicolas Gruber, and Christoph Kueffer will be addressing Scenarios of... read more
SAGUF-Jahrestagung 2016: Urbane Agrikultur – Impulse für eine nachhaltige Transformation von Stadt und Land — 22 November 2016
Die eintägige Veranstaltung findet am 22.11.2016 in Biel statt. ADIDAS Yeezy 350 Boost Sie bietet eine Austauschplattform für Akteure mit Bezug zu urbaner Agrikultur. Sprachen: Französisch und Deutsch Hintergrund Die urbane Agrikultur hat aktuell viel Medienpräsenz.... read more
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.
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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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‘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