Workshop with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 - 3:00pm
Nolte 125
The Environmental Humanities Initiative will host a workshop with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on his recent book Earth (co-authored with Linda T. Elkins-Tanton).
Professor Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University beginning July 2018 and currently serves as co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Other publications include Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (UMP, 2015) and edited volumes Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green (UMP, 2013), Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire (UMP, 2015), and Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking (UMP, 2017).
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Please read Earth in preparation for the workshop. It can be purchased here.
Nancy Langston: Lecture on environmental health and environmental policy in the Great Lakes region
Monday, April 30, 2018 - 12:15pm to 3:00pm
Diehl Hall 555
Nancy Langston, environmental historian at Michigan Technological University, will give a lecture in the Program in the History of Medicine’s lunchtime lecture series on her current research on environmental health and environmental policy in the Great Lakes region. This event is co-sponsored by the Wangensteen Historical Library and the Environmental Humanities Initiative. The lecture will take place 12:20-1:10 pm and will be followed by a graduate student workshop at 1:30 pm.
