Join Franz Krause from MESH (Cologne), Francesca Tarocco from NICHE (Venice) and Hugo Reinert from OCEH (Oslo) for an informal conversation about the state of environmental humanities initiatives in Europe and their future in a time of multiple and intensifying crises.
Franz and Francesca will also give short introductions to their respective institutions, with an eye to encouraging visits and academic exchange.
The event is open and free, but registration is required and seats are limited. Sign up here: https://nettskjema.no/a/roundtable26
Franz Krause is Professor of Environmental Anthropology and Co-Director of MESH (Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities) at the University of Cologne. His research and teaching revolve around the role of water in society and culture. He works with ethnographic methods, but is also inspired by environmental history, more-than-human geography, phenomenology and science and technology studies. He has conducted research along the Kemi River in Finnish Lapland, on the lower River Severn in Southwest England, and in the Soomaa wetlands of Estonia. His current research is with Inuvialuit and Ehdiitat Gwich’in inhabitants of the Mackenzie Delta in Arctic Canada.
Francesca Tarocco is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the founding director of the NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities, where she leads an interdisciplinary international network of scholars and practitioners focusing on critical environmental humanities, water studies and political ecology. She is currently researching for two new books on cosmotechnics and on different trajectories of human-environmental relationships in Sinophone Asia.
Hugo Reinert is Associate Professor of Cultural History and Environmental Humanities at the University of Oslo, and currently head the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities (OCEH).