How Art Changes Culture and the (Interdisciplinary) Future of the Environmental Humanities
Sponsored by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Recorded on 07/24/2024
Posted in The Authority File
Episode 394
In the final episode of this four-part series, Amanda White and Elysia French, coeditors of Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada, discuss the influence of art on environmental action and the future of the environmental humanities. First, they walk through the emphasis on the environment in the arts, underscoring the need for collaboration and more artistic representation in academia. Exploring how art can inspire change, Amanda and Elysia chat about the impact of building community, evolving curriculum, and changing the culture around environmental issues. To close, our guests share how they envision future partnerships and support for various modes of inquiry between disciplines and how their book highlights existing examples of cross-departmental environmental humanities projects.
About the guests:
Elysia French
Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts
Brock University
Elysia French is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University. French is trained as an art historian and studies contemporary art and the environment, with an interest in the visual culture of oil, climate change, and multispecies relationships.
Amanda White
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Curating, Department of Visual Art
Western University
Amanda White (she/her) is a white settler artist/scholar currently living and working in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Art at Western University. Her current work and research is focused on plants, food, and environmental justice. Learn more on Amanda’s website.
Enjoy the conversation? Listen to the rest of the series:
- Exploring Ecologies in Practice and Environmental Humanities
- Environmentally Engaged Arts, Calls to Action, and Canadian Case Studies in Ecologies in Practice
- Themes of Interruption, Interpretation, and Gathering in Ecologies in Practice
Check out our previous series with Wilfrid Laurier University Press:
– Outlining the “Big, Big Tent” of Comics Studies
– The Contemporary Leonard Cohen
– Creative Disruption in Scholarship
– Performing Female Blackness
– Canadian Poetry Today
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