City/Nature: Urban Environmental Humanities

FAIN: EH-250827-16

University of Washington (Seattle, WA 98195-1016)
Thaïsa Way (Project Director: February 2016 to December 2019)
Richard Henry Watts (Co Project Director: September 2016 to December 2019)

A three-week institute for twenty-five college and university teachers on urban environmental humanities.

This three-week NEH Summer Institute will explore the manifold consequences of the two historical trajectories – the duality of city and nature and the rise of what has become called urban nature – in the context of the urban environmental humanities. Intended for college and university faculty, the Institute will explore the emerging landscape of the urban environmental humanities as it informs both scholarship and teaching. In support of the NEH Common Good initiative, the study of this urbanized world around us should also inform how humanists address the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century.