Date: | 3 December 2013 (Tue.) |
Time: | 15:00 –16:30 |
Place: | Lecture Hall ( → Access) |
Title: | Environmental Humanities and a Transdisciplinary Response to Global Environmental Change. The experience of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. |
Speaker: | Dr. EMMETT, Robert (Director of Academic Programs, Rachel Carson Centor for Environment and Society, Germany) . |
Dr. Robert Emmett completed his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin with an emphasis on U.S. environmental literature and environmental history. Since January 2013 he has served as Director of Academic Programs at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, where he helps develop strategic partnerships, serves as the co-convener for RCC events and workshops, and teaches in the new Environmental Studies certificate program. His research interests include U.S. environmental writing, new media, the protest novel, urban ecology, and the environmental history of public spaces. His recent research has focused on U.S. urban gardens and the cultivation of environmental justice, ecomedia representations of land loss in coastal Louisiana, and conceptualizing the emerging the interdisciplinary environmental humanities. Emmett is a founding member of the European Environmental Humanities Alliance, a coalition of professional associations, research centers, and networks for humanities and social sciences research to address the social challenges of environmental degradation.
Contact:
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Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
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