Environmental Humanities

This is done by allowing humanistic perspectives to meet natural science fields. It is about exploring the power and relationships that arise between humans, animals, technology and nature, where the planetary environmental crisis is also explored as a crisis in human imagination.

The Environmental Humanities engages humanistic methods to explore how humans are part of vibrant ecologies marked by historical and cultural diversity, which shape who we are and what we can ‘become’ with others.
Therefore, the transdisciplinary subject of Environmental Humanities also works with artistic, musical and literary methods of exploration. Stockholm University offers a unique opportunity to explore these changing human-animal-nature relationships over time.

News and events

Green Zone Open seminars

SU Environmental humanities host a higher seminar series, which brings together students, researchers and is open to the public, and is also organised in collaboration with and at the Accelerator arthall. It is a lively seminar where the subjects with environmental humanities orientations meet and learn from each other, and make a difference in society.

These are experimental encounters in collaboration with the surrounding community, and because the seminars are held at the Accelerator, there are opportunities to explore what happens when research meets art, and art works with research. It is also a meeting point where researchers and students can get together, build networks and socialise.

Participants

Networks and Partners

The SU Environmental Humanities network aims to establish, strengthen and consolidate national and international cooperation in the Environmental Humanities. We have links to several different research environments:

Accelerator

Center for Environmental Humanities in Aarhus

Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network

Green House in Stavanger

KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory

Radical Humanities Laboratory

Stellenbosh University

The Posthumanities hub

Education

Explore the environmental humanities with new master's programmes, study paths and courses at advanced level. The programme gives you insights into the relationships and power that arise between humans, animals, nature and technology in ways that challenge and broaden your imaginaries.

Courses

Stockholm University offers several courses in Environmental Humanities at advanced levels at our different collaborative departments.

The courses can be taken in any order and either be fitted into your ongoing MA programme or taken as standalone courses for expanding your knowledge and skills in your ongoing lifelong learning. It is, however, recommended that you have taken at least one other Environmental Humanities course before the field course.

Autumn
Environmental Humanities I – Environmental Humanities and Deep Time, 7,5 credits

Environmental Humanities II -Human-animal-nature relations over time, 7,5 credits

Living the Anthropocene: Caring for Nature in a Changing World, 7.5 credits

Spring
Environmental Humanities – Orientation course 7.5 credits

Environmental Humanities III – Environmental Humanities and sustainable development, 7.5 credits

Environmental Humanities IV – Fieldwork nature/culture environments, 15 credits

Humans and other animals: historical and critical perspectives, 7.5 credits

Master's Programs in Environmental Humanities

The Environmental Humanities, is available within the MA programmes Archaeology, Ethnology, Gender Studies and as a study path in the MA programme in History of Ideas, is open to anyone with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification (see language and subject requirements at each department).

Several of the individual courses within the specialisation can also be taken as stand-alone courses by students who do not study on the programmes and also Erasmus and other international students. The courses are therefore taught in English.

Although some Environmental Humanities courses and programmes are available at other universities in Sweden, Stockholm University was the first to offer Master's programmes in Environmental Humanities.

Master's Programme in Archaeology - Specialisation Environmental Humanities, 120 credits

Master's Programme in Ethnology, Specialization Environmental Humanities, 120 credits

Master's Programme in Gender Studies, Specialization Environmental Humanities, 120 credits

Master’s Programme in Historical Studies, Specialisation in History of Ideas, 120 credits (in Swedish)

Research

Explore research projects within the field of Environmental Humanities.

BIOrdinary

Forest Lab | Conversations on Forests and Humans | Nordic Museum (in Swedish)

Life with Forest Loss; Renewed Relations and Ritual Re-enchantments

Reading Pain: Cultural Conceptions of Animal Suffering

Research | Cultural History and Ethnology | Nordic Museum (in Swedish)

Temporalities of Science: Constructing Past, Present, and Future of Knowledge 1945-1980

The politics of invasive alien species in Sweden: Affective alliances and heritage work - Stockholm University

Publications

Selected publications in the Environmental Humanities.

Arctic Traces: Nature and Culture in Motion (in Swedish)

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2020) | Journal of Northern Studies

Explore

Take part in the TEDx talk Thinking time with Trees with Christina Fredengren below.

How to engage

Find out through the links below how to get involved in environmental humanities at SU.

EH Speculative reading group

Join FB group SU Environmental Humanities network

Come to our higher seminar the Green Zone:

5/3 The Green Zone seminar series: The Ark of the Tropics: description, cataloging, and dissemination of the fauna of the New World in the 16th century

23/4 The Green Zone seminar series: Thinking with Soil as Heritage Matter

7/5 kl. 15-17 Reading Pain:Cultural Conceptions of Animal Suffering

28/5 kl 15-17 MA Theses in Environmental Humanities

Contact

Contact us if you want to know more about Environmental Humanities at SU