The Environmental Humanities Research Hub's MT2025 Term Card has been released
The Environmental Humanities Research Hub's MT 2025 Term Card has been released:
Environmental Humanities Michaelmas Term 2025
TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub
Michaelmas Term 2025 Calendar
W0 MIXER
Thursday, October 9th, 10am -12pm, at the Old Fellows Dining room, St Antony’s College
This is your chance to meet post-graduate and early career researchers working on environmental humanities across disciplinary divides – with coffee and pastries, of course!
W2 WASTE
Thursday, October 23rd, 12:00 midday -1:.0pm, at the Schwarzman Centre (Seminar Room 63)
In collaboration with Dr Ruth Ezra and Dr Francesca Borgo (Art History, St Andrews University), this lunch seminar hosts early career researchers to present creative methodological approaches to studying waste materials from the archive to the field. This seminar is followed by an interdisciplinary afternoon workshop bringing together a small group of senior researchers from across university departments to further the conversation.
No need to register, but if you would like a free lunch, please pre-register online.
Please get in touch to join the afternoon discussion.
W4 ARCTIC: FLAGSHIP LECTURE
Thursday, 6th of November, 12:00 midday - 1.30pm, at the Schwarzman Centre (Seminar Room 63)
Professor Bathsheba Demuth (History, Brown University), author of the award-winning Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, will be presenting her current work on the Yukon River watershed.
No need to register, but if you would like a free lunch at this session, please pre-register online.
W6 PASTORALISM
Thursday, 20th of November, 12:00 midday - 1.30pm, at the Schwarzman Centre (Seminar Room 63)
In collaboration with the Oxford Uni. Collective for Pastoralist and Nomadic Peoples, this transhistorical seminar on pastoral mobilities explores the intersections of nomadic and environmental humanities from contemporary Mongolia (Dr Ariel Ahearn, Geography) and medieval Provence (DPhil Patrick Hegarthy-Morish, History), to the deep past (tbc, Archeology). No need to register, but if you would like a free lunch at this session, please pre-register online.
W8 COAL
Thursday, 4th of December, 12:00 midday - 1.30pm, the Schwarzman Centre (Seminar Room 56)
Dr Andrew Seaton (History, UCL), author of Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution (2023), will be presenting a chapter from his current book-project on The Ends of Coal, particularly chapters on the unlikely post-war alliance between environmentalists and the national coal board during industrial land reclamations, framed as a way of solving land pressures in Britain. Andrew will be in conversation with Professor Danny Dorling (Geography, Oxford). No need to register, but if you would like a free lunch at this session, please pre-register online.
The Hub is running a writing group for PGRs and Postdocs working on environmental topics on Friday mornings (9am-12pm) in odd weeks (October 17th, 31st & November 14th, 28th) at the new Schwarzman centre. It is a great way to get some work done and meet fellow researchers in other departments from the Humanities and Social Sciences – with coffee and biscuits, of course! All welcome! If you have any queries or would like to be added to the Hub mailing list, please email envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk. For more programming information, please visit the events tab on our website.
