Re-Envisioning Nature: An Environmental Humanities Lecture Series

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

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail – Click here to register

Jeffrey Bolster
Thursday, October 13, 4pm

Indigenous Women’s Knowledge: Prairies, Power, and Plants – Click here to register

Rosalyn LaPier
Wednesday, October 26, 4pm

A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams – Click here to register

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:

Slow Violence and Our Political Moment – Click here to register

Rob Nixon
Wednesday, September 21, 4pm

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail – Click here to register

Jeffrey Bolster
Thursday, October 13, 4pm

Indigenous Women’s Knowledge: Prairies, Power, and Plants – Click here to register

Rosalyn LaPier
Wednesday, October 26, 4pm

A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams – Click here to register

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:

Slow Violence and Our Political Moment – Click here to register

Rob Nixon
Wednesday, September 21, 4pm

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail – Click here to register

Jeffrey Bolster
Thursday, October 13, 4pm

Indigenous Women’s Knowledge: Prairies, Power, and Plants – Click here to register

Rosalyn LaPier
Wednesday, October 26, 4pm

A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams – Click here to register

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:

Slow Violence and Our Political Moment – Click here to register

Rob Nixon
Wednesday, September 21, 4pm

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail – Click here to register

Jeffrey Bolster
Thursday, October 13, 4pm

Indigenous Women’s Knowledge: Prairies, Power, and Plants – Click here to register

Rosalyn LaPier
Wednesday, October 26, 4pm

A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams – Click here to register

Terry Tempest Williams
Thursday, December 1, 4pm