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Thom van Dooren

Thom van Dooren

University of Sydney | University of Oslo

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environmental humanities

The Participatory Environmental Humanities – workshop

The Participatory Environmental Humanities – workshop

Posted on August 7, 2017November 25, 2020Environmental Humanities

Last month we held a workshop at UNSW on the Participatory Environmental Humanities. The workshop explored some of the many public faces of the Environmental Humanities with a particular focus on the participatory possibilities emerging ...

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Agricultural Landscapes: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities

Agricultural Landscapes: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities

Posted on October 17, 2015November 25, 2020Environmental Humanities

Earlier this week I chaired and introduced a panel at the 2015 Forum of the Council of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) in Melbourne. The panel was put together by my colleague Matthew ...

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Remaking Nature, the MOOC…

Remaking Nature, the MOOC…

Posted on September 24, 2015November 25, 2020Environmental Humanities

Over the past few months my colleagues and I in the Environmental Humanities Program at UNSW have been developing a MOOC. For those of you not yet caught up in this global trend, a MOOC ...

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Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene

Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene

Posted on June 7, 2014Uncategorized

I’m very excited to announce a symposium to be held in Stockholm later this year: “Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities.” The event is co-organised by Michelle Bastian (University of ...

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Talking about the Environmental Humanities and Hawaiian Crows

Talking about the Environmental Humanities and Hawaiian Crows

Posted on January 18, 2014Birds and extinction

Here’s a link to a recent interview I did with Jan Oosthoek as part of the Exploring Environmental History podcast (number 58, 18 Jan 2014).

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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

Posted on December 9, 2013Birds and extinction, Extinction and Ethics

In celebration of the recently released cover for my new book, I’ve posted a little description of it here. The book is forthcoming with Columbia University Press in early to mid 2014.

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Living with crows

Living with crows

Posted on December 6, 2012Birds and extinction, Extinction and Ethics

Conservation in haunted landscapes: In 2002 the last free living Hawaiian crow died. As of this time, the only surviving members/participants of this species have been required to live their lives in captivity, subjects of ...

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Science can’t do it alone: the environment needs humanities too

Science can’t do it alone: the environment needs humanities too

Posted on November 5, 2012Uncategorized

Here’s a (belated) link to a short piece that I wrote for The Conversation in early October 2012. The piece is about the emergence of the Environmental Humanities as an interdisciplinary field of scholarship, and ...

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