eARThumanites
In recent years, scholars across the globe covering a wide range of disciplines have come to believe that environmental challenges need to be addressed not solely – and perhaps not even primarily – from an engineering or a natural science perspective, but from a wider
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WHAT WE DO
eARThumanities Functions
Research
Research in the NYUAD eARTHumanities Initiative will feature projects and contributions by faculty members from a plethora of disciplines and fields. The initiative has also launched a collaboration with The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, (LMU Munich) with which it organizes annual scholarly workshops.
Open Dialogue
Open Dialogues will occur in courses across the disciplines covering a wide range of options for students at NYU Abu Dhabi. Students will be able to choose from a variety of disciplines by which to examine topics pertaining to the environment through the perspective of global literary traditions, philosophy, history, the social sciences, the sciences, creative writing and the arts.
The eARThumanities Team
Transformations
Seminars, talks and other interactive events open to the wider community of Abu Dhabi will seek to advance meaningful common understandings of environmental justice, sustainability, the arts in the Anthropocene, as well as current perceptions and attitudes about the relationship between humans and nature.
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Sophia Kalantzakos is Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy at NYU and a long-term affiliate at NYUAD. Kalantzakos founded and heads the eARThumanities, the Environmental Humanities Research Initiative at NYUAD.
A poet, journalist, essayist, and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Prof. Siebert has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Journal, National Geographic, and numerous other publications.
Mark Swislocki specializes in the history of China. His current research focuses on the environmental history of southwest China. He is the author of Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai (Stanford, 2009) and numerous other publications.
Yifei Li is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he taught sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also been a Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.
Andrew’s research is focused on livelihoods decision-making and natural resource governance in rural areas. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University (2010-2012), and then a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI, 2012-2014) before landing at NYU in 2015.
Rana’s teaching and research fall in the area of development and public policy. She is particularly interested in comparative development policies and practices in the Arab world from various lenses. She holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning and a Masters in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.