The Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative

Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative

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The Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative brings together faculty, curators, staff, and students in the arts, humanities, and allied fields to advance the multidisciplinary study of the environment. We bring particular attention to critical histories and ethical futures, as well to narrative, visual, media, and performance practices that promote environmental justice and the public good.

Campus Events

EAHI Entanglement Series

The Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative Entanglements Series presents a dynamic lineup of events in 2025/26, co-hosted with departments, centers, and partners across the UC Berkeley campus. (Click to learn more)

Projects & Initiatives

Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here

Courses of Interest

Fall 2025

The Seminar on Criticism: Rhetoric of the Anthropocene

ENGLISH 100-004 - SEM 004
Amanda J Goldstein
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Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Plant Writing

COMPLIT 154
Anne-Lise Francois
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Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation in the Several Fields of History: Comparative History: The History of Environmental Thought and Activism

HIST 103U - SEM 001
Christoph Hermann
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Course Archive

More Environmental Engagement

September 20, 2025: BaySpark 2025: Youth Climate and Environmental Justice Summit (Southeast Community Center, San Francisco)

July 1, 2025

Welcome to BaySpark 2025: Youth Climate and Environmental Justice Summit! We're back for our 3rd year of BaySparks Youth Summit 2025 co-hosted by Marie Harrison Community Foundation and Leaders4EARTH.

Join us for a day of inspiration, learning, and...Read more about September 20, 2025: BaySpark 2025: Youth Climate and Environmental Justice Summit (Southeast Community Center, San Francisco)

NOW - September 28, 2025 : Fragile Earth: A Call to Action (Livermore Valley Arts)

June 26, 2025

Livermore Valley Arts presents an exhibition called FRAGILE EARTH: A Call to Action at the UNCLE Credit Union Art Gallery at the Bankhead Theater July 31 through September 28, 2025.

A Quest Science Center Collaboration

Fragile Earth: A Call to Action is an art...Read more about NOW - September 28, 2025 : Fragile Earth: A Call to Action (Livermore Valley Arts)

NOW - February 22, 2026 : Young Bay Mud (San Jose Museum of Art)

June 17, 2025

Young bay mud—a scientific term for ecologically rich and water-saturated deposits that are less than ten thousand years old—underlies much of the San Francisco Bay Area. A ground that uniquely encourages biodiversity but resists human development, young bay mud shapes human experience...Read more about NOW - February 22, 2026 : Young Bay Mud (San Jose Museum of Art)

Now - November 30, 2025: About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift (de Young Museum)

February 19, 2025

This exhibition is the second in a series highlighting contemporary Bay Area artists in [the de Young] collection. The installation explores how artists relate to their environments...Read more about Now - November 30, 2025: About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift (de Young Museum)

Recent News Stories

Apply Now: Art + Climate Action Grant

August 12, 2025

Welcome Back from EAHI

February 6, 2025

Inspire: Grant supports counter authoritarianism in creative ways

January 7, 2025

Daily Cal: Campus scholars to lead $2.6 million “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times” initiative

January 7, 2025

Hyperallergic: UC Berkeley Gets $2.6M for Project to Counter Arts Censorship

January 5, 2025

UC Berkeley Awarded $2.6 Million Grant for “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times”

December 20, 2024
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