Carnegie Mellon University

Environmental Humanities Research Seminar

The Environmental Humanities Research Seminar is a joint initiative that connects scholars at the University of Pittsburgh with their counterparts at Carnegie Mellon University. EHRS provides a cross-institutional, interdisciplinary venue where graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty share research with colleagues outside their immediate fields and engage in generative conversation.


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2024-2025 Events

Please join us Tuesday, September 24, for a seminar featuring theorist Audra Mitchell and her much-anticipated new book Revenant EcologiesDefying the Violence of Extinction and Conservationalong with a response from ecologist Nicole Heller, Curator of Anthropocene Studies at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
 
The seminar will take place at 12:30 PM in the Grand Room, Posner Hall 340, at Carnegie Mellon. A vegetarian meal from Ali Baba will be provided, and we will appreciate receiving your timely RSVP by September 13.
 
To enrich the discussion, we suggest reading Chapter 6 in advance. Pitt affiliates can access the full e-book here, and CMU affiliates can do so here.
 
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Coming up in November:

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Click here for an archive of our past events.