IHA Professional Training Workshop

Environmental Humanities

This workshop is aimed at those pursuing, or planning to pursue, doctoral research relating to the Environmental Humanities and scholars at postdoctoral level or early career researchers working in this space. It seeks to build community among early career researchers and to facilitate discussion of the challenges and opportunities of research in the Environmental Humanities.

Programme

14.00–14:15    Opening remarks (Marc Caball; Leah O’Hearn and Sonja Tiernan)

2:15–3:15        Networking session

Participants will be invited on the day to join one of six tables, where one of the following questions will be discussed. 

• What draws you into environmental humanities? What environmental aspects are there, or could there be, in your own work?
• Hope in Dark Times? How to keep spaces for hope in a time of precarity and poly-crises?
• What are some shared methodologies across the various disciplines within the environmental humanities? (for example, do you do place-based research? do you have sources? what does your practice look like?)
• How can/do early career researchers develop their teaching profile by applying their research to pedagogy? 
• How can artistic practice expand or challenge dominant narratives about the climate crisis and ecological change?
• Where are the environmental humanities going in terms of policy impact?

A reprise of these discussions will then be presented to the rest of the participants by rapporteurs allocated to each table.

3.15–3.35        Coffee break

3:35–4:20        Panel Discussion

Prof. Michael Cronin (TCD) and Dr. Maureen O’Connor (UCC) will speak on the of Challenges (and Opportunities) in the Environmental Humanities.

4:20–4:30        Closing Remarks

Workshop attendees will have the opportunity to raise questions, ideas and discussion points. A refreshment break will provide further time to meet others working in this field.

Queries
If you have queries relating to this event, contact Sonja Tiernan by email: s.tiernan@ria.ie

Access requirements
Have you got any access requirements that we can assist you with, so that you can fully engage with our event? Please let us know by contacting our access officer in advance of the event by email: accessofficer@ria.ie