Putting the environmental humanities to work

What can the environmental humanities contribute to climate adaptation debates beyond critique and analysis? The Penn Animation as Research Lab (PARLab) explores this question through research-based animation, visual storytelling, intercultural dialogue, and creative collaboration. Its ongoing Project Poldergeist series uses animated films to examine the cultural dimensions of sea-level rise and climate adaptation in the Netherlands and other coastal regions.

The series „On Environment“ is organized by the Chair of Environmental Humanities at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Environment is a broad conceptual idea with a history and many meanings. Today, the term is used ubiquitously. We are closely connected to what surrounds us and live in an environment more and less shaped by humans.

In this series of lectures, scholars from different disciplines address the concept, providing a lens into what it may mean to think environmentally.