Episode 17: "Virtual Field Trips, Automobiles, and Global Commodity Chains"
Graduate students from around the world talk about their collaborative work on a virtual environmental history field trip organized by the NiCHE New Scholars group.
Graduate students from around the world talk about their collaborative work on a virtual environmental history field trip organized by the NiCHE New Scholars group.
Kevin Kelly presents his perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology, and religion.
This film follows a diverse group of women from around the world as they attend the Barefoot College in India. The college teaches them solar engineering skills to allow them to contribute to their communities and improve their daily lives, but societal and familial pressure proves challenging.
In ¡Vivan las Antipodas!, award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky visits four rare inhabited regions of the world that are antipodal to other landmasses and creates unexpected images that turn our view of the world upside-down.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Evan Friss is interviewed on his book, The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Anna L. Tsing is interviewed on her new project, Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Emmanuel Kreike is interviewed on his new book, Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ian M. Miller is interviewed on her new book, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China.