The Umwelt Center for Germanic Studies & Environmental Humanities invites participants from across the Arts and Sciences to a reading group exploring topics and approaches in the environmental humanities. Our theme for this academic year will be Decomposition: Processes of Decay, Collapse, and Reorganization. Meetings will take place monthly on Fridays 12:30-1:30, and a vegan-friendly lunch will be provided.
As the year progresses, we hope that participants will suggest readings, so that our conversations reflect the diverse approaches to the environmental humanities being taken at Ohio State.
Meetings will take place on
- October 18 (excerpts from Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses (Verzeichnis einiger Verluste)
- November 22 (Eva Horn's "Challenges for an Aesthetics of the Anthropocene")
- January 24
- February 21
- March 21
- April 11
Questions? Please contact Katra Byram (byram.4@osu.edu).