Panel Discussion | What is Environmental Humanities?
Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
Tuesday 14 November 2023, 12.30pm - 2pm
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
All welcome. Tea and Coffee will be provided.
You are welcome to bring your own lunch.
Katherine Ibbett, Pablo Mukherjee, Professor of Anglophone World Literature and Amanda Power will debate the question: 'What is Environmental Humanities?'
Katherine Ibbett is Professor of French at Trinity College, Oxford. She works on early modern literature and culture.
For the faculty, she has lectured on a range of early modern topics: gender and early modern writing, France and the Americas, authors such as Lafayette or Racine.
Pablo Mukherjee is Professor of Anglophone World Literature at Wolfson College
Pablo Mukherjee grew up in Kolkata, India, and has worked, studied and taught there and the UK. He teaches and researches on imperialism and colonialism, postcolonial theory and literatures, environmental humanities and world literatures.
Amanda Power is Associate Professor of Medieval History at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
She is a historian of religion, power and intellectual life in medieval Europe. She has been involved in developing the field of global medieval history, and new approaches to historical study that speak to the concerns of the mounting climate and environmental crisis.
All are part of the Steering Group at the Environmental Humanities Research Hub, TORCH.
With any enquiries, please email envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk or fiona.stafford@some.ox.ac.uk.
