UArctic - University of the Arctic - Environmental Humanities

As a subject area, the Environmental Humanities has emerged over the last decade as a response to significant environmental challenges that have proved impossible to address comprehensively within the confines of traditional disciplinary boundaries.

The Environmental Humanities is thus an area of work that seeks to highlight the importance of the humanities in meeting these challenges, while also looking to stage conversations with the natural sciences.

In order to narrow down somewhat this broad scope, the Thematic Network on Environmental Humanities has three initial strands:

Indigenous, decolonial, gender, and feminist perspectives in interdisciplinary collaboration
Transdisciplinary methodologies, sustainability, and planetary health
Care, creativity, and communication as contribution to peace in the Arctic

Goals

Co-create and plan collaborative research projects within the thematic network based around the strands and in co-operation with partners.
Network meetings
Establish a UArctic graduate module on topics, methods, and theories in the Environmental Humanities, to gauge interest for summer/winter schools and eventually a UArctic Master’s in the environmental humanities
World cafés (informal online meeting places to exchange ideas and get to know each other, including students)
Sponsored sessions at the UArctic Congress in Torshavn