All environmental humanists broadly conceived are invited to join us for the launching event of the 2024-2025 GREEN BAAS Online Roundtable Series: Writing in/for the Environmental Humanities

Thursday 12 September, 4pm BST / 5pm CEST / 11am EDT, ZOOM (register here )

BAAS, the British Association of American Studies, and GREEN BAAS, its sustainability and environmental network, are delighted to invite you for this free, online roundtable on the challenges and opportunities of writing in/for the environmental humanities. 

The Environmental Humanities is a growing field of interdisciplinary research that puts in dialogue the humanities and the natural and social sciences to bring new insights on environmental matters. New journals and book series have popped up in recent years, reflecting the exciting scholarship emerging on themes as varied as multispecies studies, petrocultures, coastal studies, energy humanities, extinction studies, and more.

But what are the challenges (and opportunities) of writing for an interdisciplinary audience about the environment? How can scholars breach the interdisciplinary divide and speak to all environmental humanists? Can environmental humanities writing help scholars reach a wider public?

Conceived with the needs and questions of early-career researchers in mind, this session brings together five experienced scholars who edit journals and/or book series about the environmental humanities to share with us their reflections on the field and the challenges and opportunities of writing in/for the environmental humanities.

We asked them to reflect on these questions:

• In your experience as editors, what defines excellent environmental humanities writing and can you give some examples that have inspired your own writing?
• What makes writing for an environmental humanities audience different from environmental history/eco-criticism or other disciplinary type of writing about the environment?
• What are the strengths/challenges of environmental humanities writing?

After brief introductory statements by all featured speakers, we will open up the floor to a Q&A.

Featured speakers:

– Prof. Joni Adamson (Arizona State University), Co-Editor of the Routledge Press Environmental Humanities book series and Director of the Humanities for the Environment North American Observatory.

– Dr Hannah Boast (The University of Edinburgh), Associate Editor at Environmental Humanities and co-convener of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network

– Prof. Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Series Editors of “Past, Present and Future Econarratives: Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities”

– Prof. Isaac Land (Indiana State University), Co-Editor at Coastal Studies & Society

Chair: Dr Elsa Devienne (Northumbria University), co-lead for GREEN BAAS

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