University of Texas at Arlington

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Pre PartyVideo • By University of Texas at Arlington

Environmental history and the environmental humanities

TRAILER: A Dinner Discussion

View a trailer of a dinner discussion film, with Stacy Alaimo, Jacqueline Fay, Mark Hersey, Christopher Morris, Ned Schaumberg, and Rajani Sudan.

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Fri 15:45Video • By University of Texas at Arlington

Video of a Dinner Discussion

Environmential History and The Environmential Humanties

The Community Garden Festival will release a video about an environmental history and humanities dinner conversation. At the preimier event, on Friday 16:00 CET, you can view it here.

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Fri 16:00Panel • By University of Texas at Arlington

Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities:

A Dinner Discussion

A panel conversation and video screening with Stacy Alaimo, Jacqueline Fay, Mark Hersey, Christopher Morris, Ned Schaumberg, and Rajani Sudan. Inspired by the Seed Box festival theme of a Community Garden, we offer a video of a dinner conversation on the Environmental Humanities, from the varying perspectives of scholars of history and of literary and cultural studies.

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After PartyVideo • By University of Texas at Arlington

Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities: - Video Documentation

Dinner and Panel Discussions

One evening around a dinner table, six scholars performed a three-hour discussion about the Environmental Humanities. What are the Environmental Humanities, as collective research project and as political activism? Should we tell stories, or should we offer theories? How interdisciplinary should or can we be? How useful are concepts such as Anthropocene, post-human, post-natural?

The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) has been a Seed Box Consortium Partner since 2015. For the Community Garden Festival, Christopher Morris, UTA, has gathered colleagues and collaborators to explore questions about what the Environmental Humanities are, and what they should contribute with.

Christopher Morris lives in Dallas, Texas, and is Professor of History at the University of Texas, Arlington. He is the author of two books, including The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina. In addition, he has authored articles, essays, and book chapters on subjects ranging from slavery in the sugarcane fields of Louisiana to climate change as revealed in the cartographic history of the Great Lakes. He is best known for his work on the relationship between people and the natural environment in the American South.

In connection to the Community Garden Festival, Morris has set up a collaboration with Ned Schaumberg, Stacy Alaimo, Jacqueline Fay, Rajani Sudan, Mark Hersey, and Videographers Marcel Rodriguez and Cedrick May.


Photo: Christopher Morris

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