The Understory


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October 17, 2022

Welcome to The Understory, PPEH's environmental humanities digest! We're growing a digital community space to feature work in EH, share information, and most importantly, to expand conversation in all areas of the environmental humanities. Please feel welcome to contribute your events, related work, and recommendations by emailing director@ppehlab.org!

WHYY Article

Listen up! Philly Teens Share

'Kids from eight high schools around the city gathered at the University of Pennsylvania Thursday to practice talking about their own experiences with impacts of climate change, and listening to each other.' Read more about our Listen Up! event series and stay tuned for further reporting! Article link

New Field Notes!

2022-2023 Graduate Research Fellowships Awarded

We are pleased to announce a wonderful new cohort of graduate research fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Congratulations to the three fellows, and welcome to PPEH! Read more about Pablo, Cecilia, and Elisheva and their work here!

PPEH Welcomes Academic Year Undergraduate Public Research Interns

We are also delighted to introduce our three undergrad public research interns, Christy Choo, Aman Sharma, and Maria Villareal! Read more about them and their climate stories here!

Upcoming Events

October 20

Meet PPEH!

Each semester, the College in collaboration with the College Houses and academic departments and programs holds a series of dinner discussions on majors, minors and academic options. These dinners provide an opportunity to meet with faculty, staff and upperclass students in a small, relaxed setting.

Grab-and-go dinner will be catered by Du Bois College House, and Environmental Humanities representatives will be present to answer your questions about the program. RSVP here!

Seeking Environmental Justice in Philadelphia: Creating a Path for all Voices

October 27: A moderated conversation with community experts Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Tammy Reeves intends to prompt consideration of how rapid response collection and openly accessible archival practices can support community advocates and environmental justice. This event recognizes International Open Access Week October 24-29, which this year has the theme, Open for Climate Justice. This event is sponsored by the Penn Libraries and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Free and open to all! Registration required.

Working Wednesdays!

Imagining Alternative Environments: A Products of our Environment Workshop

This workshop will give members of the PPEH community an opportunity to engage in a discussion about abolition and environmental justice. After a brief introduction, attendees will read and discuss together a poem that imagines alternatives and entangled solutions to the carceral system and climate crisis. Presenter Jane Robbins Mize will also be seeking feedback from participants on how best to engage these topics for a range of audiences in the upcoming working group, Products of our Environment.

October 19: RSVP here!

Ecotopian Toolkit Catalog and Living Archive Workshop

This day-long workshop on Wednesday, October 26th, at Penn's campus will bring together our 2022 Ecotopian Toolmakers to collaborate on both a print and digital Catalog of Ecotopian Tools and contributions to the forthcoming living archive of past and present tools.

In addition to participating in the larger workshop, Toolmakers will speak about their ecotopian tools for the Delaware River watershed at the day’s Working Wednesday research-in-progress talk from 12:30-1:30. October 26: RSVP here!

Climate Story of the Week

Emma's Story

Holding infant-me, my parents huddled on the kitchen floor in order to avoid the windows. Because of the raging hurricanes in the summer of 2004, the glass through which we normally enjoyed Florida sunshine turned into a hazard: an entrance for deadly projectiles. Read more of Emma's story here.

Community Board

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) are excited to announce that they will hold their next conference jointly in Portland, Oregon on July 9-12, 2023 at the Oregon Convention Center. The theme of the conference will be “Reclaiming the Commons.” This event will offer opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, networking and professional development with a variety of sessions sponsored by both organizations. The Call for Proposals is linked here, and registration will open in early 2023. Other details can be found on the respective websites: aessconference.org and asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/.

American Rivers is seeking a Director/Associate Director for Community Campaigns and Engagement. Please share the opportunity below with your social and environmental justice organizers, policy experts, conservation and environmental science specialists, project managers, program coordinators, public health advocates, communications and marketing professionals, river/waterkeeper networks, and beyond. APPLY: https://americanrivers.bamboohr.com/careers/108

Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development is a Columbia University-published open-access online academic journal dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development. Each semester, Consilience invites researchers who exemplify our mission statement to submit their work to the Journal. The types of submissions accepted include scholarly articles, opinion pieces, field notes, and photo essays. Author guidelines, with further descriptions of the types of articles being sought, are available here.

Thinking With a River: Housatonic Valley History and Culture
Edited by Sheila Liming and Jacob A.C. Remes
Call for Papers: Abstracts due February 1, 2023

What might it do to our understanding of American history and culture to take watersheds as units of scholarly analysis, naturally defined regions that should be studied together? Thinking With a River: Housatonic Valley History and Culture will explore this question in the context of the Housatonic River, which drains a watershed of nearly 2,000 square miles in Western Massachusetts, Western Connecticut, and Eastern New York. We seek submissions from scholars in any discipline or field who explore the culture and history of the region, putting into conversation scholarship of the various writers, artists, and intellectuals. For full information, read here.

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