{"id":88,"date":"2014-09-16T20:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=88"},"modified":"2016-05-19T22:32:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T22:32:37","slug":"environments-and-technologies-tuesday-march-17-4-to-6-pm-room-193-humanities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Environments and Technologies, March 17, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allison Carruth<\/strong>\u00a0(English and Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, UCLA) is the author of\u00a0Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food<\/i>\u00a0(Cambridge, 2013). Her\u00a0research and teaching interests<\/a>\u00a0include the environmental humanities, contemporary literature and new media art, American food movements, critical food studies and science and technology studies. Her current book project is\u00a0Radical Gardens, Digital Times: From Server Farms to Seed Libraries in\u00a0Contemporary American Culture<\/i>. Professor Carruth has served as an editor for\u00a0Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i>She\u00a0is also a key research with the\u00a0North American Observatory of Humanities for the Environment<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the co-founder of a collaborative public art and\u00a0environmental outreach project called\u00a0Play the LA River<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Heather Houser<\/b> (English, University of Texas at Austin) is the author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect <\/i>(Columbia, 2014), which argues that contemporary fiction uses affect to bring audiences to environmental consciousness through the sick body. In 2013-2014, she was a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and her essays appear or will appear in American Literary History<\/i>, Los Angeles Review of Books<\/i>, Public Culture<\/i>, American Literature<\/i>, and other journals. Houser is currently working on a new project, titled \u201cEnvironmental Art and the Infowhelm\u201d for now, that gives an account of the aesthetics of information management across environmental media.<\/p>\n

Dolly <\/b>J\u00f8rgensen<\/b> <\/b>(Environmental History, Ume\u00e5 University) is a Researcher in the Department of Ecology & Environmental Science at Ume\u00e5 University in Sweden and is currently president of the European Society for Environmental History<\/a>. J\u00f8rgensen brings her background in engineering\u2014she holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Civil Engineering with an Environmental Engineering specialty and she has worked for engineering consulting firms\u2014to her study of environmental history. While her master\u2019s and PhD projects focused on medieval environmental issues, her postdoctoral project examined policies about converting offshore oil and gas platforms into artificial reefs. J\u00f8rgensen is currently working on a project about the role of history in the reintroduction of mammals in Norway and Sweden and is focusing on the beaver and muskox in the first phase of this project. She is also an editor for the book series The Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/i><\/a> <\/i>with Berghahn Books, a co-founder of the Environmental History Network for the Middle Ages (ENFORMA)<\/a>, and the H-Environment <\/i>book review editor for non-US environmental history books.<\/p>\n

Sverker S\u00f6rlin<\/b> (Environmental History, KTH) researches the roles and functions of knowledge in environmentally informed modern societies. His current research projects encompass the science politics of climate change through the lenses of glaciology and sea ice; the emergence of and changes within environmental expertise; historical images of Arctic futures; and the environmental turn in the humanities and the social sciences. With Paul Warde and Libby Robin, he co-edited The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change <\/i>(Yale, 2013), and the three are currently co-authoring a conceptual and intellectual history of the environment, provisionally entitled The Environment\u2014A History<\/i>. S\u00f6rlin is engaged in environmental and research policy advice in Sweden and internationally; he has served on the Swedish Government\u2019s Research Advisory Board and currently serves on the Government\u2019s Environmental Research Board. He is also a regular contributor to the largest Swedish daily the\u00a0Dagens Nyheter<\/i>, appears frequently in the public media, has conducted film and documentary projects for national radio and television, and writes narrative non-fiction. S\u00f6rlin was instrumental in founding the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alexa Weik von Mossner <\/b>(American Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria) worked for several years in the German film and television industry as a production manager and later scriptwriter before earning her PhD in Literature at the University of California, San Diego in 2008. Her research focuses on American and postcolonial literature and film. She is the author of\u00a0Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination<\/i>\u00a0(U of Texas Press, 2014), the editor of Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film<\/i>\u00a0(Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014), and the co-editor, with Sylvia Mayer, of\u00a0The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture<\/i>\u00a0(Universit\u00e4tsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, American Studies Series). Weik von Mossner\u2019s new book project explores the role of emotion and affect in the imagination of global ecological risk scenarios with a focus on American popular culture narratives. She is an Affiliate of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society<\/a> in Munich, where she curates the environmental film series\u00a0Green Visions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allison Carruth\u00a0(English and Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, UCLA) is the author of\u00a0Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food\u00a0(Cambridge, 2013). Her\u00a0research and teaching interests\u00a0include the environmental humanities, contemporary literature and new media art, American food movements, critical food studies and science and technology studies. Her current book project is\u00a0Radical Gardens, Digital Times: … Continue reading Environments and Technologies, March 17, 2014<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-participants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/environmental.humanities.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}