October 25 – Reading Group
A Cultural History of Climate by Wolfgang Behringer
December 1 – Student Writing Presentations
“Crossing Boundaries in Environmental History”
With Essie Ladkau, David Patterson, and Matt Villeneuve
Visiting Scholar Julia Adeney Thomas
Co-sponsored with the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies
January 19 – Reading Group
Capitalism in the Web of Life by Jason Moore
February 16 – Student Writing Workshop
“Annie Kanara’s Flax: Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Environmental Knowledge, and Global Capitalism in Settler-Colonial New Zealand” with Matt Woodbury
March 8 – Visiting Scholars
Journal of Narrative Theory Dialogue with Ursula Heise and Rob Nixon
“Planet of Cities: Urban Environments and Narrative Futures”
Co-sponsored with the Animal Studies RIW
April 13 – Reading Group
How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages by Karl Steele
Environmental History Interest Group 