Welcome to ASEH
The UM Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Animal Studies and Environmental Humanities is a group of scholars working on, or with an interest in, critical environmental studies and animal studies across the humanities and arts disciplines. Our multidisciplinary participation enables us to regularly engage in discussions on the relationships between the human and the animal – and between humans and animals – and the ways in which power is constructed and disseminated in our environments. We consider scholarship that interacts with physical animals, textual representations of animals, and discourses of animality and what it means to be human. Our movement between the material, discursive, and rhetorical manifestations of the nonhuman is governed by the vast range of methods and disciplines of our participants, which keeps our meetings always in a space of interdisciplinary debate.
Contact:
Catherine Fairfield cvf@umich.edu
Katherine Hummel hummel@umich.edu
Winter 2018 Schedule:
Thursday, Jan. 11
Paper workshop with Ben Mangrum, "Postwar Ecology and the Ends of Human Rights"
Angell 3241, 10:00-11:30 am
Friday, Jan. 19
Film screening of Safe (1995), directed by Todd Haynes
Shapiro Library Screening Room 2160, 2:00-5:00 pm
Monday, Feb. 12
Reading group, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction, by Heather Houser (UT Austin)
Angell 3154, 4:00-5:30 pm
*Please RSVP by Feb. 1 for free copy of book*
Thursday, Feb. 22 and Friday, Feb. 23
Heather Houser (UT Austin) lecture and roundtable
Co-sponsored with Critical Contemporary Studies and the American Studies Consortium
Lecture (2/22): Angell 3222, 4:00 pm
Roundtable (2/22): TBD
Friday, March 9
Ursula K. Heise (UCLA) lecture
Co-sponsored with the Environmental History Interest Group
Angell 3222, 4:00 pm
*If you're interested in having coffee or a meal with Ursula while she's here, please contact us!*
Monday, March 26
End-of-term paper workshop with Mika Kennedy and Elizabeth McNeill.
Angell 3154, 10:00 am -12:30 pm
*Please RSVP to receive pre-reading*
Contact:
Catherine Fairfield cvf@umich.edu
Katherine Hummel hummel@umich.edu
Winter 2018 Schedule:
Thursday, Jan. 11
Paper workshop with Ben Mangrum, "Postwar Ecology and the Ends of Human Rights"
Angell 3241, 10:00-11:30 am
Friday, Jan. 19
Film screening of Safe (1995), directed by Todd Haynes
Shapiro Library Screening Room 2160, 2:00-5:00 pm
Monday, Feb. 12
Reading group, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction, by Heather Houser (UT Austin)
Angell 3154, 4:00-5:30 pm
*Please RSVP by Feb. 1 for free copy of book*
Thursday, Feb. 22 and Friday, Feb. 23
Heather Houser (UT Austin) lecture and roundtable
Co-sponsored with Critical Contemporary Studies and the American Studies Consortium
Lecture (2/22): Angell 3222, 4:00 pm
Roundtable (2/22): TBD
Friday, March 9
Ursula K. Heise (UCLA) lecture
Co-sponsored with the Environmental History Interest Group
Angell 3222, 4:00 pm
*If you're interested in having coffee or a meal with Ursula while she's here, please contact us!*
Monday, March 26
End-of-term paper workshop with Mika Kennedy and Elizabeth McNeill.
Angell 3154, 10:00 am -12:30 pm
*Please RSVP to receive pre-reading*
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