Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment (BASCE) is an interdisciplinary tri-national platform through which all those who are interested in the relation between art, culture, and environmental issues in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg can be informed about the latest national and international developments.
From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins, Gregg Mitman reveals how changing values, scientific developments, and new technologies have come to shape American encounters with wildlife on and off the big screen.
Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
An excerpt from Alex Carr Johnson’s manuscript “Every Day Like Today: Learning How to Be a Man in Love.”
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
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ASLE seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts, especially ecocriticism.
Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) is a Canadian-based confederation of researchers and educators who study nature and humans in Canada’s past.
Mick Smith argues that the expressivist hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Walter Benjamin might offer an alternative understanding of the nature of language and the language of nature.
This film examines the roles and impact of Berlin’s Spree River, accompanied by a specially composed symphony from Karsten Gundermann.
