Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative

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, waste colonialism, and imperial violence. These powerful works zoom in and out of the local, national, and global to untangle structural relationships between us and them, here and there.

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...

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

January 5, 2025

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...

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...

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

January 7, 2025

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...

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...

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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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...

Environmental Arts and Humanities Exploratory Session

September 27, 2024

To our ever-widening EAHI community:

We are excited to renew our commitment to the environmental arts and humanities on the UC Berkeley campus. We thank Linda Rugg and Gregory Levine for their past leadership and look forward to welcoming Shannon Jackson as the new faculty director. With that in mind, we’d like to invite you into conversation so that we can hear more from you, learn more about your research interests, and evolve platforms and projects that will serve a wide range of faculty and graduate students.

On Tuesday, October 8th,
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