The future of our environment is among the most pressing issues of our time. In 2022-23, URI’s Center for the Humanities is devoting its annual lecture series to the environmental humanities, a discipline that uses humanistic questions and methods to shed light on how we interpret our environment and envision its future. This yearlong series draws on the expertise of environmental historians, literary scholars, musicians and writers to demonstrate the role the humanities can play in understanding and addressing the urgent environmental questions of the day.
All events in the series are free and open to the public.
Event Listing:
Slow Violence and Our Political Moment – Click here to register
Rob Nixon
Wednesday, September 21, 4pm
Jeffrey Bolster
Thursday, October 13, 4pm
Rosalyn LaPier
Wednesday, October 26, 4pm
Terry Tempest Williams
Thursday, December 1, 4pm
The future of our environment is among the most pressing issues of our time. In 2022-23, URI’s Center for the Humanities is devoting its annual lecture series to the environmental humanities, a discipline that uses humanistic questions and methods to shed light on how we interpret our environment and envision its future. This yearlong series draws on the expertise of environmental historians, literary scholars, musicians and writers to demonstrate the role the humanities can play in understanding and addressing the urgent environmental questions of the day.
All events in the series are free and open to the public.
Event Listing:
Rob Nixon
Wednesday, September 21, 4pm
Jeffrey Bolster
Thursday, October 13, 4pm
Rosalyn LaPier
Wednesday, October 26, 4pm
Terry Tempest Williams
Thursday, December 1, 4pm
The future of our environment is among the most pressing issues of our time. In 2022-23, URI’s Center for the Humanities is devoting its annual lecture series to the environmental humanities, a discipline that uses humanistic questions and methods to shed light on how we interpret our environment and envision its future. This yearlong series draws on the expertise of environmental historians, literary scholars, musicians and writers to demonstrate the role the humanities can play in understanding and addressing the urgent environmental questions of the day.
All events in the series are free and open to the public.
Event Listing:
Rob Nixon
Wednesday, September 21, 4pm
Jeffrey Bolster
Thursday, October 13, 4pm
Rosalyn LaPier
Wednesday, October 26, 4pm
Terry Tempest Williams
Thursday, December 1, 4pm
The future of our environment is among the most pressing issues of our time. In 2022-23, URI’s Center for the Humanities is devoting its annual lecture series to the environmental humanities, a discipline that uses humanistic questions and methods to shed light on how we interpret our environment and envision its future. This yearlong series draws on the expertise of environmental historians, literary scholars, musicians and writers to demonstrate the role the humanities can play in understanding and addressing the urgent environmental questions of the day.
All events in the series are free and open to the public.
Event Listing:
Rob Nixon
Wednesday, September 21, 4pm
Jeffrey Bolster
Thursday, October 13, 4pm
Rosalyn LaPier
Wednesday, October 26, 4pm
Terry Tempest Williams
Thursday, December 1, 4pm