Podcast: Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks

Charne Lavery, Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), presented her book Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English (Palgrave […]

Min Hyoung Song, Professor of English at Boston College (USA), discussed his book Climate Lyricism (Duke University Press, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series […]

For our 100th Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk, writer Lydia Pyne discussed her book Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) with us on […]

Eric Hirsch, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Franklin & Marshall College (USA) discussed his book Acts of Growth: Development and the Politics of Abundance in […]

Kjetil Fallan, Professor of Design History at University of Oslo (Norway), discussed his book Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia (The MIT Press, 2022) in the […]

Joshua Trey Barnett, Assistant Professor in Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State (USA), discussed his book Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence (Michigan […]

Sophie Chao, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney (Australia), discussed her book In the Shadow […]

James Morton Turner, professor of environmental studies at Wellesley College (USA), discussed his book Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future (University […]

Jenny Price, public writer and artist, discussed her book Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto (WW Norton, 2021) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series […]

Erik Nordman, Professor of Natural Resources Management and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, discussed his book The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor […]

Stephanie Rutherford, associate professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University (Canada), discussed her book Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of […]

To start of the 2022-23 academic year, the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series hosted Jarrod Hore, postdoctoral fellow with the New Earth Histories Research […]

Matthew Kelly, professor of modern history at Northumbria University (UK), joined the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 20 June 2022 to discuss […]

Writer and historian Megan Kate Nelson discussed her book Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Scribner, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series […]

Laura J. Martin, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Williams College, discussed her book Wild By Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration (Harvard University Press, 2022) in […]

Keith Pluymers, Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University, discussed his book No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic (University of Pennsylvania Press, […]

Laura Smith, Lecturer in Human Geography at University of Exeter (UK), presented her book Ecological Restoration and the U.S. Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition: A Rewilding […]

Matthew Seibert, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia (USA), discussed his edited volume Atlas of Material Worlds: Mapping the Agency of Matter (Routledge, […]

Jonathan Saha, Associate Professor in South Asian History at Durham University (UK), discussed his book Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar (Cambridge University Press, 2021) in the […]

Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University (USA), presented his book Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago […]

Liam Lewis, Lecturer in French at the University of Liverpool (UK), presented his book Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts (D. S. Brewer, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental […]

Bart Elmore, Associate Professor at Ohio State University (USA), discussed his book Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future (W. W. Norton, 2021) in the Greenhouse […]

Michael Guida, Research Associate at University of Sussex, presented his book Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2022) in the […]

Daniel Barber, Associate Professor at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, discussed his book Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton University Press, 2020) […]

Catherine Oliver, Research Associate at University of Cambridge (UK), joined the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk on Monday, 7 March 2022 to discuss her book Veganism, […]

Laurence Talairach, Professor of English at University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and associate researcher at the Alexandre Koyré Centre for the History of Science and […]

Jonathan E. Robins, associate professor of history at Michigan Technological University, discussed his book Oil Palm: A Global History (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) in the […]

Liz Miller, professor of English at University California, Davis (USA), presented her book Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion (Princeton University Press, 2021) in […]

Michelle Nijhuis, project editor at the Atlantic and award-winning journalist, discussed her book Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (W. W. Norton, 2021) in the […]

Alexander Etkind, Professor of History of Russia-Europe Relations at the European University Institute (Italy), presented his book Nature’s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Wiley, 2021) […]

Chris Pearson, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at University of Liverpool (UK), discussed his book Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and […]

Gregg Mitman, Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA), discussed his book Empire of […]

Nancy Langston, Distinguished Professor of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University (USA), presented her book Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene (Brandeis University Press, […]

Raf de Bont, chair of History of Science and the Environment at Maastrict University, the Netherlands, talked about his book Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and […]

Charlie Hailey, Professor and Distinguished Teaching Scholar in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida, presented his book The Porch: Meditations on the Edge […]

Samantha Walton, Reader in Modern Literature at Bath Spa University, presented her book Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure (Bloomsbury, 2021) in the Greenhouse […]

Jessica Hurley, Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, discussed her book Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) […]

Candace Fujikane, Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i, presented her book Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in […]

Max Liboiron, Associate Professor of Geography at Memorial University, Canada, joined the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 1 November 2021 to discuss Pollution […]

Vincent Ialenti, Research Fellow at The Berggruen Institute and University of Southern California, USA, discussed his book Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth […]

Heather Houser, associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, discussed her book Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of […]

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, presented his book A Monastery for the […]

Nayanika Mathur, associate professor in anthropology at University of Oxford, presented Crooked Cats. Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene (University of Chicago Press, 2021) in the Greenhouse environmental […]

Kirsten Greer, Associate Professor in the Departments of Geography and History at Nipissing University (Canada) and the Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and […]

Robert Geal, Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton (UK), discussed his book Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse […]

Anna Burton, teaching fellow at University of Liverpool (UK), joined the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series to discuss her book Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: […]

Finis Dunaway, professor of history at Trent University (Canada), presented his book Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental […]

Joanna Page, Reader in Latin American Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge, presented her book Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art (UCL Press, 2021) […]

Emily O’Gorman, senior lecturer at Macquarie University (Australia) kicked off our fall 2021 edition of the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series with a discussion […]

Anna Barcz, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, presented her book Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe: Literature, […]

Christine Keiner, Professor of STS and History at Rochester Institute of Technology, presented her book Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal (University of Georgia […]

Joseph Pugliese, Professor in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University (Australia), discussed his book Biopolitics of the More-than-Human: Forensic Ecologies […]

Ben Anderson, Lecturer in Twentieth Century European History at Keele University (UK), discussed his book Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany (Palgrave, 2020) […]

Finn Arne Jørgensen, Professor of environmental history at University of Stavanger and co-host of the book talk series, presented his recent book Recycling (MIT Press, 2019) on […]

Elizabeth Parker, founder of Gothic Nature Journal, presented her book The Forest and the EcoGothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) in the Greenhouse […]

Justyna Poray-Wybranowska, an early career researcher in postcolonial studies and environmental humanities, discussed her book Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel in the Greenhouse […]

As part of Environmental History Week organized by the American Society for Environmental History, the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk series hosted a special panel […]

Frederico Freitas, Assistant Professsor of History at North Carolina State University (USA), discussed his book Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border (Cambridge […]

On Monday, 29 March 2021, the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk was joined by Jonathan Padwe, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai’i, […]

C. Anne Claus, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University (USA), presented her book Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa (University of […]

Timo Maran, Professor of Ecosemiotics and Environmental Humanities at Tartu University, presented his new book Ecosemiotics: The Study of Signs in Changing Ecologies (Cambridge University Press, 2020) […]

Pratik Chakrabarti, chair in the history of science and medicine and director of the Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the […]

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Research Fellow in Religion and Theology at Australian Catholic University, joined the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk series to discuss her book Thoreau’s Religion: […]

Benjamin Cohen, Associate Professor of Engineering Studies and Environmental Studies at Lafayette College (USA), discussed his book Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of […]

Jemma Deer, Researcher-in-Residence at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Germany), talked about her book Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Bloombury, […]

Craig Santos Perez, Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, discussed his book of eco-poetry Habitat Threshold (Omindawn, 2020) in […]

Stefania Barca, Zennström visiting professor in Climate Change Leadership, Uppsala University, Sweden, joined the Greenhouse book talk series on Monday, 1 February 2021 at 16:00 […]

Sasha Engelmann, Lecturer in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway University, joined us for a Greenhouse online book talk about her book Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental […]

Kate Teltscher, Emeritus Fellow of the School of Humanities at the University of Roehampton and Visiting Researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, discussed her […]

On Monday, 11 January 2021, Jamie Lorimer, associate professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at University of Oxford, discussed his book The Probiotic […]

Peter Dauvergne, Professor of International Relations at the University of British Columbia (Canada), discussed AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, […]

Alexandra (Ally) Palmer, post-doctoral researcher at University of Oxford, presented her book Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation (Routledge, 2020), on Monday, 30 November 2020, in the Greenhouse […]

Australian writer Rebecca Giggs discussed her book Fathoms: The World in the Whale (Scribe, 2020) on Monday, 23 November 2020, in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk […]

Alenda Chang, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of Calidornia Santa Barbara (USA), discussed her book Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games (University of […]

Aidan Tynan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University (Wales), presented his book The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) […]

Peder Anker, Professor of History of Science at New York University (USA), presented his book The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer […]

Hannah Boast, Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor at University College Dublin, presented Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) […]

Etienne Benson, Director of Department II, Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany (formerly Associate […]

Lesley Green, Professor of Anthropology and founding director of Environmental Humanities South at University of Cape Town (South Africa), presented her book Rock | Water | Life: […]

Kate Rigby, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at University of Cologne, Germany (previously Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University), gave a Greenhouse book talk […]

Luke Keogh, Senior Curator at the National Wool Museum (Australia), presented his book The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World (University […]

Jennifer Telesca, Assistant Professor of environmental justice at the Pratt Institute (USA), presented her new book Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna (University […]

Melody Jue, Associate Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara (USA), presented her book Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press, 2020) in our […]

Rocio Gomez, Assistant Professor in Latin American History at Virginia Commonwealth University (USA), presented her new book Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health […]

Daniel Macfarlane, Associate Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University (USA), launched his book Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy […]

Thom van Dooren, Associate Professor at University of Sydney (Australia), presented his book The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (Columbia University Press, 2019) […]

Emily Wanderer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh (USA), presented her book The Life of a Pest: An Ethnography of Biological Invasion in Mexico (University […]

Paul Huebener, Associate Professor of English at Athabasca University (Canada), presented his book Nature’s Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis in our […]

Emily Pawley, Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College (USA), discussed her book The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science and Capitalism in the Antebellum North (University […]

David Fedman, Assistant Professor of history at the University of California, Irvine (USA), discussed his book Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University […]

Christine Eriksen, Senior Lecturer in geography, and Susan Ballard, Senior Lecturer in art history, from the University of Wollongong (Australia) presented their jointly authored book Alliances […]

Angela Cassidy, Lecturer in Science & Technology Studies at University of Exeter, discussed her book Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers (Palgrave, […]

Author and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee discussed her book Two Trees Make a Forest (Virago Books, 2019) on Monday, 11 May in our Greenhouse book talk […]

Antony Adler, Research Associate at Carleton College (USA), presented his book Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea (Harvard University Press, 2019) on Monday, 4 May […]

Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University (USA), discussed her book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (WW […]

Eva Haifa Giraud, Lecturer in Media Studies at Keele University (UK), discussed her book What Comes After Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion (Duke University […]

Paul Merchant, Lecturer in Latin American Film and Visual Culture at University of Bristol (UK), presented Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human (University Press […]