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eARThumanities<\/span><\/h1>\n
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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 humanities based<\/g> understanding and analysis of the relationship between humans and their environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/span>With the creation of the eARThumanities<\/g> research initiative launched in the spring of 2017, NYUAD has taken a bold and significant step in building a locus of intellectual research and debate from which to contribute robustly to the emerging field of environmental humanities. Moreover, at NYUAD the eARThumanities<\/g> research initiative is emphasizing the significance of the arts in this wider conversation, while also drawing on the social sciences and the physical sciences and engineering to foster interdisciplinary dialogue. West Asia and North and East Africa are under-researched in major aspects of their human and environmental relations. The research and study of their past and present challenges is of crucial importance as we move forward into a period of increased demographic pressure and global climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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WHAT WE DO<\/h2>\n

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eARThumanities Functions<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Research\u00a0in 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\u00a0The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, (LMU Munich) with which it organizes annual scholarly workshops.<\/p>\n

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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\u00a0which\u00a0to examine topics pertaining to the environment through the perspective\u00a0of global literary traditions, philosophy, history, the social sciences, the sciences, creative writing and the arts.<\/p>\n

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The eARThumanities Team<\/span><\/h2>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

View\u00a0list of upcoming events.<\/p>\n

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[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px||2px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Sophia Kalantzakos” job_title=”Global Distinguished Professor” company_name=”NYU \/ NYU Abu Dhabi ” portrait_url=”https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kalantzakos.PHOTO_.2021JPEG.jpeg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

Sophia<\/span>\u00a0Kalantzakos is Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy at NYU and a long-term affiliate at NYUAD.\u00a0\u00a0Kalantzakos founded and heads the\u00a0eARThumanities<\/a>, the Environmental Humanities Research Initiative at NYUAD.<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Charles Siebert” job_title=”Professor of Practice of Literature and Creative Writing” company_name=”NYU Abu Dhabi ” portrait_url=”https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Author-Photo_MG_0134A.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

A poet, journalist, essayist, and contributing writer for\u00a0<\/span>The New York Times Magazine<\/i>, Prof. Siebert has written for\u00a0<\/span>The New Yorker<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Vanity Fair<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Esquire<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Outside<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Men\u2019s Journal<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>National Geographic<\/i>, and numerous other publications.<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Mark Swislocki” job_title=”Program Head of History; Associate Professor of History” company_name=”NYU Abu Dhabi ” portrait_url=”https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-23-at-7.23.04-PM.png” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

Mark Swislocki specializes in the history of China. His current research focuses on the environmental history of southwest China.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai\u00a0<\/i>(Stanford, 2009)\u00a0and numerous other publications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kunda Dixit is an adjunct Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi and the founder and editor of Nepali Times. He writes about the media\u2019s interface with climate, conflict and the Internet. He is the author of the media textbook, Dateline Earth: Journalism As If the Planet Mattered, as well as curator of the triology of photobooks on the Nepal conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Rana Tomaira” job_title=”Research Scientist and Lecturer” company_name=”Social Sciences, NYU Abu Dhabi ” portrait_url=”https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-23-at-7.37.24-PM.png” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

Rana’s\u00a0teaching 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\u00a0holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning and a Masters in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Rastraraj Bhandari ” job_title=”Visiting Research Fellow ” company_name=”NYU Abu Dhabi ” portrait_url=”https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-24-at-14.08.10.png” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

Rastra is a Visiting Research Fellow at eARThumanities, NYU Abu Dhabi. He is a founding member of the Himalayan Water Project, a contributing author for the Nepali Times, and specializes in climate finance and policy. Rastra has a BA in Economics from NYUAD and a MA in Economics & Management from Peking University where he was a Yenching Scholar.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Haewon<\/span> graduated with a BA in Social Research and Public Policy from NYUAD, where she is working as an instructor of the Undergraduate Writing Program. As a member of the Big Wave, South Korean Youth Climate Change Network, <\/span>Haewon<\/span> has worked in climate journalism and climate docu-series that focus on wildlife conservation in Jeju, South Korea and Cairns, Australia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_testimonial author=” Beniamin Strzelecki” job_title=”Class of 2023″ company_name=”NYU Abu Dhabi ” portrait_url=”https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_07221-copy-2.jpg” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

\u00a0Benjamin is\u00a0 <\/span>a member of the Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change to the UN Secretary-General <\/span><\/span>and the co-chair of Student Energy Summit 2023,\u00a0 scheduled to take place in the UAE in November 2023. As a youth representative and advisor, <\/span>Beniamin has worked with the UN and other intergovernmental agencies on projects focused on climate action, energy transition and youth empowerment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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