[ Seminar Archive ]

Since 2007, the Environmental Humanities Workshop, a group of faculty and graduate students from the humanities, sciences and social sciences, has met three to four times per quarter to discuss creative and scholarly works in the Arts and the Humanities that engage with current environmental conditions.

winter 2012 seminars

Before the Law: Animals and Biopolitical Thought

Monday, January 30, 6 to 8 pm
Y2E2, Room 101
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Animal Law: The Newest Social Justice Movement

Monday, February 27, 6 to 8 pm
Y2E2, Room 300
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Sustainability, Equity, and Rights: Human-Animal-Nature Interactions & Intersections

Monday, March 12, 6 to 8 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460),
Terrace Room, 4th floor
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winter 2012 artist event

thursday.2.9.2012

6:30-8:00 PM
CUMMINGS ART BUILDING, ART4
(LOWER LEVEL)

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fall 2011 seminars

An Ecology of Art: Human and Land Rights in Australian Aboriginal Painting

Monday, October 3, 6 to 8 pm
Stanford Humanities Center Board Room

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Finding a Future for Climate Ethics

Monday, October 31, 6 to 8 pm
Y2E2, Room 300

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In Search of Refuge: Climate Justice and Climate-Induced Migration

Monday, December 5, 6 to 8 pm
Bldg. 460, Terrace Room, 4th floor

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fall 2011 artist event

thursday.11.10.2011

6:00-8:00 PM
MARGARET JACKS HALL (BLDG. 460)
TERRACE ROOM (4TH FLOOR)

spring 2011 seminars

Environmentalism and Animated Film

Tuesday, April 19, 6 to 8 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460),
Terrace Room, 4th floor

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Digital Maps and Spatial Histories

Tuesday, May 10, 6 to 8 pm
Y2E2, Room 299

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Curating Biodiversity

Wednesday, June 1, 3 pm
Field trip to the Oakland Museum's
Natural Sciences Collections

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spring 2011 symposium

friday.4.8.2011

10:00 AM-4:30 PM
MARGARET JACKS HALL (BLDG. 460)
TERRACE ROOM (4TH FLOOR)

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winter 2011 seminars

Biodiversity: Strangers and Natives

January 25, 6 to 8 pm
Y2E2, Room 299

Biodiversity: Advocates and Critics

February 8, 6 to 8 pm
Y2E2, Room 299

Biodiversity on the Move

March 1, 6 to 8 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460),
Terrace Room, 4th floor

fall 2010 seminars

Discussion of Indra Sinha's novel, Animal's People, & Kim Fortun, Advocacy After Bhopal

Tuesday, October 5, 6 to 8 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460),
Terrace Room, 4th floor

"Campfire Talk: The Los Angeles Urban Rangers Enact the Megalopolis"
with Jenny Price (UCLA) and Nick Bauch (Stanford)

Tuesday, November 2, 7 to 9 pm
Y2E2, Room 299

Discussion of Michel Serres'
The Parasite

Tuesday, December 7, 6 to 8 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460),
Terrace Room, 4th floor

spring 2010 seminars

The Humic Foundations of Human Culture

Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 4 to 6 pm
Y2E2, Room 300

Global Warming: How the Past Figures in Current Debates

Friday, April 30, 10 am to 12 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460),
Terrace Room, 4th floor

Does Global Climate Change History?

Thursday, April 29, 7 to 9 pm
Y2E2, Room 111

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Skeptical Environmentalism

Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 4 to 6 pm
Y2E2, Room 101

winter 2010 seminars

Cultural Ecosystem Services:
Can We Value the Intangible?

Tuesday, March 16, 4 to 6 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460),
Terrace Room, 4th floor

Environmental Writing in Four Dimensions: Science, Journalism, History, Fiction

Friday, March 5, 12 to 5 pm

Water Library

Friday, February 26, 12 to 2 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460),
Terrace Room, 4th floor

What Can the Humanities Contribute to the Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior (MAHB)?

Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 4 to 6 pm
Y2E2, Room 299