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Environmental Studies Workshop (https://voices.uchicago.edu/environmentalstudies/)

2022-2023

Workshop Coordinators: Sachaet Pandey & Carmine Morrow

Faculty Sponsors: Elizabeth Chatterjee & Pauline Goul

The Environmental Studies Workshop invites submissions for the upcoming 2022-23 academic year.

The Environmental Studies Workshop is a collaborative cluster designed to provide a forum for graduate students and scholars who work on the environmental social sciences and humanities, broadly conceived. As environmental challenges become some of the central issues of our times, this workshop seeks to bring together diverse and innovative modes of inquiry to understand the history, present conditions, and future of this planet and its living beings.

Over the course of the year, we will discuss works that focus on local, regional, global, and planetary systems as they relate to history, species relations, religion and ethics, law and policy, economic development, political economy, the built environment, urban design, literature, art and film, and resource management. The workshop seeks to bring critical, cross-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary inquiry to contemporary environmental problems within academia. 

We welcome a wide variety of formats, including original historical studies, economic models, lab and field findings, engineering designs, ethics inquiries, literary works, polling projects, curated museum exhibits, films, performances, and works of visual art, among others. We offer participants a platform to present works in progress of all kinds, and provide a forum for discussion in biweekly sessions open to the community.

The Environmental Studies Workshop meets every other week on Friday from 12-1:30pm CT* (*subject to adjustments). As of now, we intend to hold our sessions in-person, but we welcome presenters who wish to present online, and remote accessibility still remains a priority.

Please address your submissions and questions to the workshop coordinators (sachaet@uchicago.edu; carmine@uchicago.edu). Make sure to mention in your emails the quarter in which you would like to present your work (Autumn, Winter, or Spring) whether you’d like to present in-person or online, and make sure to include a working title, a brief 250 word abstract or description of your work, and a short bio. To subscribe to our listserv, click here!

Please send in your proposals by Sunday, September 19. We intend to announce our schedule for the Autumn by the end of September. We look forward to reading your proposals, and to another year of enlivening discussion and inquiry!