Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German
Colloquium in German and Dutch: Wiggin on community engaged scholarship and environmental humanities
Seminar
Date:Thursday 18 December 2025
Time:13.00 – 15.00
Location:Accelerator
This lecture, part of The Green Zone Seminar Series, explores how community-engaged scholarship can expand the environmental humanities.
This lecture is a part of The Green Zone Seminar Series. It is co-organised by the colloquium in German and Dutch and the higher seminar in Environmental Humanities.
In her lecture, Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania/KTH, reflects on how university-community collaborations can build democratic, transdisciplinary research networks for more sustainable futures.
Prefiguring Futures We Want: Community Engaged Scholarship and the Environmental Humanities
Drawing on ten years of lessons learned from public environmental humanities projects, this talk invites discussion about how community engaged scholarship can broaden methods and practices of the environmental humanities and environmental studies more generally. Amidst apparently accelerating paths into increasingly uncertain and downright risky eco-social futures, how might collaborative campus-community partnerships slowly and patiently build transdisciplinary, democratic research networks? Amidst dystopian presents, how are we already pre-figuring such networks and paths toward a university for the future? In dialogue with sustainability and critical university studies as well as movement theory, this talk explores several ongoing cross-institutional environmental collaborations in the United States.
