Irish Humanities Alliance | Environmental Humanities

Established in 2020 to advocate and mediate on the importance of arts and humanities disciplines in understanding environmental challenges such as climate change. The WG examines significant topics through open dialogue including Humanities for the Anthropocene in May 2021 which sought to galvanise conversations and collaborations between humanities researchers across Ireland. Co-organised with the Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork.

Reconstituted in 2023 with a renewed focus to advocate and mediate for the importance of arts and humanities disciplines in understanding environmental challenges such as climate change. The WG organised a public symposium Irish Environmental Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Conversation at the Royal Irish Academy on 30 May 2024. The workshop explored the role of the Arts and Humanities in shaping research, teaching and public policy in relation to the climate and environmental emergencies of our times. A report from this workshop is available here.