Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative

The Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative

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.

Now - May 15, 2025: Art/Act: Youth - Symbiotic Cities Exhibition Opening (David Brower Center)

February 28, 2025

The David Brower Center’ presents, Art/Act: Youth—Symbiotic Cities, in which students explore the importance of blue and green spaces in urban areas Over 200 local students from Berkeley, Richmond, and Skyline High Schools contributed to this show.

EVENT DETAILS
Open through May 15, 2025
Gallery Hours
Monday to Thursday: 10am - 4pm
Friday: 10am - 2pm

https://browercenter.org/exhibit/art-act-youth-symbiotic-cities/

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

January 7, 2025
Kira Rao-Poolla

UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, or CICI, and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, or ICCTP, received a $2.6 million grant to support a multiyear initiative titled “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times.”

Led by campus scholars Judith Butler and Shannon Jackson, among others, the project aims to develop concrete strategies, tools and proposals to create a counter-imaginary to authoritarianism — a practice that “reaches beyond” our current moment to visions and scenarios that challenge those of autocratic regimes, according to...

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/campus-scholars-to-lead-2-6-million-a-count…

EAHI Courses of Interest

Spring 2025

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

Class #27557

How do we understand the aesthetics of climate change, especially in times of increased climate change denial? Scientists, politicians, activists, and policy-makers struggle to sensitize global citizens to the threat of climate change. Within this nexus, artists, humanists, and...

Inspire: Grant supports counter authoritarianism in creative ways

January 7, 2025
Grant supports counter authoritarianism in creative ways

UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) have been awarded $2.6 million to support a groundbreaking multi-year initiative titled “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times.”

Through workshops, conferences, performances, publications, and a dynamic, open-ended digital platform, this project brings together academics, artists, activists, and other community members to develop concrete strategies, tools, and proposals to create a...

https://inspire.berkeley.edu/o/grant-supports-counter-authoritarianism-in-creati…

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

December 20, 2024

Berkeley, CA — UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) have been awarded $2.6 million to support a groundbreaking multi-year initiative titled “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times.” Through collaborative workshops, conferences, performances, publications, and a dynamic, open-ended digital platform, this project brings together academics, artists, activists, and other community members to develop concrete strategies, tools, and proposals to create a counter...

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

January 5, 2025
Isa Farfan

The University of California (UC), Berkeley has received a $2.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a new initiative to confront artistic and academic censorship, the school announced on December 20.

Titled “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times,” the multi-year interdisciplinary project will comprise anti-censorship programming at arts institutions across the country, including the University of...

https://hyperallergic.com/981320/uc-berkeley-gets-2-6m-for-project-to-counter-ar…

EAHI Course of Interest: Ecology Across the Arts and Humanities

December 16, 2024

The Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative is pleased to support a new seminar in the department of Theater Arts. Enrollment is now open for Spring 2025:

Ecology Across the Arts and Humanities
Theater Arts 266: Special Topics
Tuesdays, 2 - 5 PM
Instructor: Shannon Jackson
Class #: 27557
Learn More and Register

How do we...
https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2025-spring-theater-266-002-sem-002

Join Our Team: CICI Seeks a Full-Time Project Manager

November 13, 2024
The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) seeks a full-time project manager for a three-year, $2.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation titled “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times.”

Project Manager (7398U) #74276

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https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucb/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_F…

UC Berkeley Welcomes Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay for "The Cinema of Negative Ecology"

October 16, 2024

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry and the Department of Rhetoric welcome Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay for a talk tited, “The Cinema of Negative Ecology.”

Friday, November 15, 3:00 - 5:00 PM at 370 Dwinelle Hall.

Guest Speakers:

Steven Swarbrick (Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York) Jean-Thomas Tremblay (Associate...
https://events.berkeley.edu/cici/event/257225-steven-swarbrick-and-jean-thomas-t…