Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks

Matthew Holmes, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stavanger, discussed his book  The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics  (University of Pittsburg Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 13 May 2024. The global triumph of Mendelian genetics in the twentieth century was not a foregone conclusion, thanks to the existen...

Carolyn Fornoff, assistant professor of Latin American studies at Cornell University, joined the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk to discuss her book  Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change  (Vanderbuilt University Press, 2024) on 6 May 2024 . During the twenty-first century, Mexico has escalated extractive concessions at the same time that it...

Jason Heppler, historian and the senior developer at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media of George Mason University, discussed his book  Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism  (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 29 April 2024. In the half century after World War II, California’...

Dana Luciano, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, discussed her book  How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States  (Duke University Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 22 April 2024. In  How the Earth Feels  Dana Luciano examines the impacts of...

Siobhan Angus, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Carleton University, discussed her book  Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography  (Duke University Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse book talk series on Monday, 15 April 2024. In  Camera Geologica  Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on...

Historian Mica Jorgenson discussed her book  The Weight of Gold: Mining and the Environment in Ontario, Canada, 1909-1929  (University of Nevada Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 18 March 2024. Mining in North America has long been criticized for its impact on the natural environment. Mica Jorgenson’s  The Weight of Gold  explor...

Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University (USA), discussed his book  Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East  (Cambridge University Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 11 March 2024. In this highly original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and s...

Caleb Wellum, Assistant Professor of US history at the University of Toronto, Mississauga (Canada), discussed his book  Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America  in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 4 March 2024. In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis...

Fynn Holm, Junior Professor in Japanese Studies at University of Tübingen (Germany), discussed his book  The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019  (Cambridge University Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 19 February 2024. Japan is often imagined as a nation with a long history of whaling. In this...

Matthew Archer, Assistant Professor in Social Science at Maastricht University (Netherlands), discussed his book  Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability  (NYU Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on 12 February 2024. In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental...

Katie Sagal, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College (USA), discussed her book  Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England  (University of Virginia Press, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 5 February 2024. To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific profe...

Otto Latva, University Lecturer at University of Turku (Finland), discussed his book  The Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture: The Monsterization of Molluscs  (Routledge, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 29 January 2024. This book builds upon the extensive study of the historical relationship between sea animals and humans in transatlantic cul...

Christopher Blakley, Visiting Assistant Professor at Occidental College, discussed their book  Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World  in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 22 January 2024. In the early modern British Atlantic world, the comparison of enslaved people to animals, particularly dogs, cattle, or horses,...

Dianne Rayson, Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at Pacific Theology College (Fiji), discussed her book  Bonhoeffer and Climate Change: Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene  (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 11 December 2023. Where is the voice of theology in the public discourse around anthropogenic climate change? How...

Peter Sutoris, Lecturer in Education at the University of York (UK), discussed his book  Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence  (MIT Press, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 4 December 2023. The book talk was held in conjunction with the Eduction and Bildung in the Anthropocene Network (EBAN) meeting and the U...

Simone Müller, Heisenberg Professor for Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities at the University of Augsburg (Germany), discussed her book  The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade  (University of Washington Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday 27 November 2023. In 1986 the  Khian Sea , carrying tho...

Jared Margulies, Assistant Professor of Political Ecology at the University of Alabama (USA), presented his book  The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade  (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 20 November 2023. Delving into the strange world of succulent collecting, Jared D. Margulies explores t...

Dario Fazzi, Assistant Professor of US and Environmental History at Leiden University and Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (Netherlands), discussed his book  Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement  (Columbia University Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 13 Nove...

Robyn d’Avignon, Assistant Professor of History at New York University (USA), presented her book  A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa  (Duke University Press, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 6 November 2023. Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields,  A Ritual Geology  tells th...

Mantha Zarmakoupi, Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture at University of Pennsylvania (USA), discussed her book  Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical  Approaches  to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy  (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book series on Monday, 30 October 2023. This book focuses on Roman architecture, nature, and wall pai...

Davide Orsini, Postdoctoral researcher at the Rachel Carson Center at LMU Munich (Germany), discussed his book  The Atomic Archipelago: US Nuclear Submarines and Technopolitics of Risk in Cold War Italy  (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 23 October 2023. In 1972, the US Navy installed a base for nuclear submarine...

Karen Pinkus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University (USA), discussed her book  Subsurface  (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 2 October 2023. Long seen as a realm of mystery and possibility, the subsurface beneath our feet has taken on all-too-real import in the era of climate change. Can read...

Harriet J. Evans Tang, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University (UK), discussed her book  Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland: From Farm-Settlement to Sagas  (D.S. Brewer, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 25 September 2023. Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in se...

Kyle Parry, associate professor of history of art and visual culture at the University of California Santa Cruz (USA), will discuss his book  A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes  (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 18 September 2023. Digital and social media have transformed how much and how fast we communicate, but t...

Peter Alagona, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara (USA), discussed his book The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities (University of California Press, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 11 September 2023. The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife t...