• Why Ecocriticism Needs the Social Sciences (and Vice Versa)

    Why Ecocriticism Needs the Social Sciences (and Vice Versa)

    By Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder: Knowing that you need to tell a new story does not always mean that you know what to say, or how to say it. This is the situation we find ourselves in today.

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  • Re:Thinking the Urban: UEI Workshop Report

    Re:Thinking the Urban: UEI Workshop Report

    By Daniel Dumas & Carolin Maertens: The Urban Environments Initiative (UEI) held its third workshop entitled Re:Thinking the Urban on 22 January 2021.

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  • Not All Penguins Are Clean

    Not All Penguins Are Clean

    By Lindsay Stringer Geography always made sense to me. I’d learn about how a river meanders in a lecture, for example, and then I’d go outside, find a river, and see it for myself. There’s far less reliance on imagination in geography compared to other subjects where you learn about the small or the large…

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  • Anthropocene and Citizen Science

    Anthropocene and Citizen Science

    Workshop Report: Anthropocene and Citizen Science: Evidence Gained through the “Opening-up” of Academic Knowledge Production? (19–20 July 2018, Munich) By Fabienne Will *Photos courtesy of author In July 2018, the Deutsches Museum hosted a workshop organized by the two projects Evidence Practices at the Interstice of Sciences, Humanities and the Public: The Anthropocene Debate and…

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