University of New Hampshire: 1st Annual Seminar in Culture and Sustainability

Colleagues, this is relevant to the humanities, not just social scientists. Indeed, it is aimed and humanists, and many of you will find this interesting.

This July, UNH will offer what we hope will be the first annual seminar in Culture and Sustainability.  

http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/summerseminar

(Deadline extended!)

UNH is a nationally recognized leader in sustainability, especially in the areas of climate & energy, biodiversity, and food systems.  We now want to ramp up the participation of humanities scholars in sustainability. For a week, you can join us in Durham to discuss readings and work on a writing or teaching project in the company of like-minded people at our new summer seminar, "Ecology and Ethnicity: Sustainability Studies' Contributions to Place." 

I hope you'll take a look and think creatively about how your work might apply. You do NOT need to be researching and writing about "nature": to us, "sustainability" means attending to "coupled human-natural systems," meaning that it is not solely about ecological issues but also calls for attention to historic preservation, public memory, digital cultures, as well as to the questions around gender, ethnicity and power that are the mainstay of much of the best humanities scholarship.  So, for instance, we have invited one seminar leader (Angel Nieves, Hamilton College) who's an architectural historian working with black diasporic public memory projects, and another (Darren Ranco, University of Maine) who's a cultural anthropologist working with Maine Indian basket makers and cultural revitalization.

Send a 1-page c.v. and 1-page statement describing your current scholarship to our our faculty fellow Siobhan Senior atssenier@unh.edu.

Please spread the word, and consider joining us.  And if you have an idea you'd like to run past us, please don't hesitate to be in touch with Siobhan.

Siobhan Senier
Associate Professor, English
Faculty Fellow, Sustainability Institute
James H. and Claire Short Hayes Chair in the Humanities
University of New Hampshire
95 Main St.
Durham NH 03824-3574