Environmental Humanities Network
About the EHN
The Environmental Humanities Network (EHN) at the University of Waterloo brings together scholars, practitioners, community groups, and artists under the banner of the Environmental Humanities. Broadly defined, the Environmental Humanities seek to interdisciplinarily understand and address pressing environmental problems by employing humanistic methods that attend to, for example, ethics, values, design, cultures, and communication–in short, caring for both the planet and humanity.
We bring together arts-based research and teaching methods with environmental data to examine the most pressing problems facing a sustainable future: a rising climate; biodiversity loss; deforestation; ocean acidification; air, water, and soil pollution. The EHN involves both the arts and sciences, and is an interdisciplinary hub that promotes collaboration and cross-talk between universities, community organizations, and citizen scientists. Members of the EHN work both internally and cross-institutionally to examine and disseminate knowledge about environmental sustainability as represented in the UN 17 Global Sustainability Goals, with a focus on arts-based outputs that persuasively move people to action.
The EHN is made up of a group of interdisciplinary teachers and researchers at the University of Waterloo, UWaterloo-based Affiliate groups, and non-UWaterloo institutional Partners. If you are interested in the Environmental Humanities and are looking for a networked community whose projects and priorities support ethical engagement with the environment, please join us!
Events
Fall 2026 Environmental Humanities Slow Reading Group
Join The Environmental Humanities Network (EHN) and the Waterloo Initiative of Solarpunk and Hope (WISH), for the Fall 2026 EH Slow Reading Group! Facilitated by Dr. Katy Fulfer (PHIL) and Dr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon (ENGL), the Slow Reading Group is a space for thoughtful, collaborative inquiry and open to all scholars--MA students, PhD students, postdocs, and faculty--interested in the Environmental Humanities (EH).
Our fall 2026 book is Bubant et al.'s Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene (U of Minnesota P, 2022). We will start our first reading group with the Introduction, and go from there! Copies of the text will be provided. We meet in HH 335.
Each Slow Reading Group session will begin with a period of silent reading, followed by open discussion. No prior preparation or registration is required; however, you can send any questions you have to jclarylemon@uwaterloo.ca.
Environmental Humanities Symposium
The Environmental Humanities Symposium is an opportunity for like-minded academics to exchange their research and ideas. A special keynote presentation will be delivered by Anne Pasek. Learn more about the attendees here.
Fall 2026 Environmental Humanities Slow Reading Group
Join The Environmental Humanities Network (EHN) and the Waterloo Initiative of Solarpunk and Hope (WISH), for the Fall 2026 EH Slow Reading Group! Facilitated by Dr. Katy Fulfer (PHIL) and Dr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon (ENGL), the Slow Reading Group is a space for thoughtful, collaborative inquiry and open to all scholars--MA students, PhD students, postdocs, and faculty--interested in the Environmental Humanities (EH).
Our fall 2026 book is Bubant et al.'s Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene (U of Minnesota P, 2022). We will start our first reading group with the Introduction, and go from there! Copies of the text will be provided. We meet in HH 335.
Each Slow Reading Group session will begin with a period of silent reading, followed by open discussion. No prior preparation or registration is required; however, you can send any questions you have to jclarylemon@uwaterloo.ca.