Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network
Hello Bluesky! We are a network for research and teaching in Environmental Humanities at University of Edinburgh 🌱✨🌞🐛❄️
- Book launch: Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie, From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland. 17 February, co-hosted with the Historical and Cultural Geography Research Group. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
- Read about some of the new publications and other research achievements by our members in 2025: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- Reposted by Edinburgh Environmental Humanities NetworkI have funding for a PhD student* to study a topic related to IP and plants/agriculture 🌱 Applications close 21 January 2026 *sorry, the funding doesn't support international students. Only UK, Irish nationals or EU nationals with settled status in UK law.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...
- A reminder of this event on 20th November:
- EEHN will be hosting a joint reading group with @critiquecentre.bsky.social about Richard Healey and Angie Pepper's article 'Pets, Power and Legitimacy' on 20 November critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/pets-power-a...
- Coming up this Friday:
- We are co-hosting an online event celebrating Joanna Macy's life and legacy on 14 November, with Sustainability in Education Research Group (SIERG) and organised by our member Glen Cousquer blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- Big recommend for this series:
- Fifth and final episode of Winter Well on air BBC Radio 4 today: how should we anticipate our winters yet to come? Big thanks to all contributing folks who gave voice to experience and expertise. And esp to Helen Needham, producer whizz and all-round winter wonder. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- Date for the diaries of followers in Edinburgh or nearby, all welcome:
- EEHN will be hosting a joint reading group with @critiquecentre.bsky.social about Richard Healey and Angie Pepper's article 'Pets, Power and Legitimacy' on 20 November critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/pets-power-a...
- We are co-hosting an online event celebrating Joanna Macy's life and legacy on 14 November, with Sustainability in Education Research Group (SIERG) and organised by our member Glen Cousquer blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- EEHN will be hosting a joint reading group with @critiquecentre.bsky.social about Richard Healey and Angie Pepper's article 'Pets, Power and Legitimacy' on 20 November critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/pets-power-a...
- This already fairly quiet account is on hiatus over the summer. We will be back in September with plans for the new year. Please email if you need us! 🌱
- This year's James Tait Black Prize for Fiction went to Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favourite, translated by Michele Hutchison. A book of great interest to animal and environmental scholars: www.ed.ac.uk/news/transla...
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- Ina will be giving a talk about her work at IASH tomorrow (4 June). Details here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-ina...
- Ina Linge (Exeter) joined us this month as EEHN-IASH Visiting Fellow. Ina will be here until the end of June, working on her AHRC Catalyst-funded project, ‘Queer Natures: Animals, Environment and Modern Sexual Knowledge Production (1860s to 1930s and today)’ blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- Ina Linge (Exeter) joined us this month as EEHN-IASH Visiting Fellow. Ina will be here until the end of June, working on her AHRC Catalyst-funded project, ‘Queer Natures: Animals, Environment and Modern Sexual Knowledge Production (1860s to 1930s and today)’ blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- We recently welcomed 21 new members to Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network, after a call for applications. Read about their work here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- Spotted: our member @david-farrier.bsky.social's new book Nature's Genius in @argonautbooks.bsky.social!
- We're looking forward to welcoming guests from @seisydney.bsky.social next week for a joint workshop on ecological transformations. Hoping the sunny weather will stay with us! 🌞
- some Edinburgh sights from a sunny weekend 🌞
- This isn't environmental humanities-specific, but may be of interest to our followers! Open to researchers from any ODA-recipient country, working on arts, humanities or social sciences topics within the British Council's remit (more info on the link)
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- We're looking forward to welcoming Ina Linge next week as our second @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Environmental Humanities Visiting Fellow of 2024-25. Ina will be working on a project about nature and sexuality in late 19/early 20c German arts, science and culture: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-i...
- We've appreciated having Brittany Meché here for the past few months as @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Environmental Humanities Visiting Fellow. Brittany has been working on a fantastic project about arid lands and empire in West Africa www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-b...
- Well done to our PG convenor Annie Gallagher and the EEHN PhD Lab, who wrapped up the third of the Prokalo lecture series tonight at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture - a great success! blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
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- Our member - and founder! - David Farrier is doing events around the country to celebrate his new book, Nature's Genius, including two talks in Edinburgh.
- This is tomorrow:
- A number of our members are involved in this event on Friday:
- Scheme in Edinburgh that may be of interest to some of our local followers!
- Our EEHN & @iashedinburgh.bsky.social fellow Brittany Meché is speaking at this event for Edinburgh Science Festival on 11 April: www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/desert...
- EEHN is growing, and invites University of Edinburgh staff and PhD students to become members. Details of how to apply are on the blog: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- Thanks to all the applicants for the EEHN Visiting Fellowships, who sent in some wonderful proposals. The team at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social is assessing the applications and will be in contact with everyone in April.
- Hello and welcome to ASLE-UKI!
- The deadline for our visiting fellowships is now imminent!
- The deadline for the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network Visiting Fellowships 2025-26 is 28 February. blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- Our next event is a book launch for Andrea Pia, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China, on 28 February blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- The deadline for the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network Visiting Fellowships 2025-26 is 28 February. blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- Congratulations to the 2025 cohort of EARTH Scholars!
- Events programme for the semester from our friends at CRITIQUE, Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought.
- Our social later will now be at *the pear tree*, not the royal dick (which is closed). We hope to see some of you there at 5!
- Also on Wednesday!
- Later that day we'll have our spring social event, Summerhall at 5pm, all welcome to come to either or both blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- Coming up on Wednesday:
- Our next event is a reading group on Sarah Jacquette Ray and Jennifer Atkinson’s The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators. Wed 29 Jan, co-hosted with CRITIQUE: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
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- Our next event is a reading group on Sarah Jacquette Ray and Jennifer Atkinson’s The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators. Wed 29 Jan, co-hosted with CRITIQUE: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
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- Last few days to register for this online symposium organised by our member Peter Adkins, with Malcolm Cook at Southampton.
- Our first event of 2025 is on Wednesday: a work-in-progress paper by Samantha Vice (Wits/IASH) on environmental aesthetics and climate change blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- Reposted by Edinburgh Environmental Humanities NetworkApplications are now open for 2025-26 Fellowships at IASH, with 60 places available! Apply here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 April. See our Fellowship pages for details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-p...
- This event no longer has a pre-read paper, so just come along - perhaps welcome news in the first week of semester!
- If you're figuring out post-PhD plans and might benefit from some time at Edinburgh, you may be interested in the IASH postdoctoral fellowships. The 2025-26 application portal is now open.
- Do you have research leave coming up and a project that would benefit from the input of our community at Edinburgh? The Environmental Humanities Visiting Fellowship application portal is now open.
- We host visiting researchers for fellowships of 2-4 months each year at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social. Details here, deadline 28 Feb: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- A date for your diaries: on 28 February, we will be holding a book launch for Andrea Pia, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China, co-hosted with Anthropology blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
- We have a social event on the evening of the 29th, to welcome back EEHN members and friends, old and new, and brighten the dark Edinburgh evenings blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
