The Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative

Background image: Juniper Harrower. Disrupted Symbiosis. 2022. Acrylic, ink, alcohol, Joshua tree seed oil, fibers on cotton rag mounted on 1.5" basswood cradle. 18"x24"

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Juniper Harrower. Disrupted Symbiosis. 2022. Acrylic, ink, alcohol, Joshua tree seed oil, fibers on cotton rag mounted on 1.5" basswood cradle. 18"x24"

The Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative brings together faculty and students in the arts and humanities and interpretive social sciences to advance the multidisciplinary study of the environment with particular attention to critical histories and futures, narrative, visual, and embodied practices, beliefs, values, and ethics, and environmental justice and the public good.

Upcoming Campus Events

Courses of Interest

Spring 2025

Ecology Across the Arts and Humanities
Theater Arts 266: Special Topics
Instructor: Shannon Jackson
Class #27557

Course Archive

More Ecological Engagement

Spring 2025: Open Seminars on Ecology Across the Arts and Humanities

February 1, 2025

The Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative (EAHI) community is welcome to join discussion of ecological research, curation, and art-making by selected faculty and staff. Each session asks visiting speakers to take us on a deeper dive into their work, sharing the context, inspirations, and...Read more about Spring 2025: Open Seminars on Ecology Across the Arts and Humanities

January 30, 2025: Chromatic Apparitions: Colour and Chemical Intimacy at the Socialist Film Factory

January 30, 2025

Presented by the Department of Rhetoric, Film and New Media, and History of Art How does photography reflect on its own toxicity? To respond to this question, this talk considers a photographic series created by the industrial photographer Wolfgang G. Schröter in the mid-1960s, which offers a...Read more about January 30, 2025: Chromatic Apparitions: Colour and Chemical Intimacy at the Socialist Film Factory

February 6 - May 8, 2025: Transnational Environmental Film Series (ERG Indoor Club)

February 6, 2025

Presented by ERG Indoor Club: This film series aims to highlight the documentary visions that have radically contextualized the environmental and health issues across continents in the Global South. These international films capture subaltern voices framed within global capitalism, extractivism,...Read more about February 6 - May 8, 2025: Transnational Environmental Film Series (ERG Indoor Club)