Environmental Humanities Institution Building Symposium

This invitational virtual event will feature Blue Lab director Allison Carruth in conversation with Elizabeth Hennessy, (professor of history and environmental studies at Wisconsin), Weishun Lu (Edge Effects managing editor and PhD student in English at Wisconsin), and Paul Sabin (professor of history and American studies at Yale). The group will be in conversation about the evolution and horizons of environmental humanities.

The event is convened by the Environmental Humanities Research Group at Northwestern University, led by Professors Corey Byrnes (Asian Languages and Cultures, Program in Comparative Literary Studies) and Keith Woodhouse (History, Environmental Policy and Culture) and supported by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.