The Environmental Humanities Research Hub's HT2026 Term Card has been released

9 January 2026

The Environmental Humanities Research Hub's HT 2026 Term Card has been released: 

Environmental Humanities Hilary Term 2026

                                              

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TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub

Hilary Term 2026 Calendar

 

 

 

W1   Workshop with Max Liboiron

Friday*, January 23rd, 12:00-2:00pm, Schwarzman Centre (Learning Centre)

A workshop on strategic change for researchers, writers, and communicators to explore how our research projects interface with the issues we care about, whether those are challenging hetero or homonormativity in popular culture or addressing the climate crisis (or both simultaneously!). By the end, participants will have practical frameworks for clarifying what kind of change they’re aiming for, how to aim, and how their work can more effectively contribute to it. Think of this workshop as a little bit of therapy for your project.

 

W2   Shifting Landscapes and Shape Changing Trees

Thursday, 29th of January, 12:00-1:30pm, Schwarzman Centre (Seminar room 63)

Professor Andrew Matthews (Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz), author of Trees are shapeshifters, will be presenting his current work on the political geomorphologies of pastoralism and trees in Italy. He explores how forms and disturbances reshaping pastures, hillsides drainage systems and coastlines move through our senses and stretch our imaginations across time and space.

 

W4   Panel on Publishing

Thursday 12th of February, 12:00-1:30pm, Schwarzman Centre (Seminar room 63)

Are you a post-graduate and early career researchers looking to publish their work in the environmental humanities, within and beyond academia? Come ask your questions to Professor Amanda Power (History, Oxford), Professor Jamie Lorimer (Geography, Oxford), Anna Henderson (ARC Humanities) and Rebecca Brennan (Princeton University Press).

 

W8   Jules Verne’s Planetary Apocalypse

Thursday 5th of March, 12:00-1:30pm, Schwarzman Centre (Seminar room 63)

Dr Sebastian Egholm Lund will be presenting a book chapter from his upcoming monograph on Climate Control and the Fiction of the Fin de Siècle. The book argues that a range of canonical fin de siècle-authors such as Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Mark Twain gave aesthetic form to the idea that humanity could affect global climate change. Paradoxically, they did this not through the scientific paradigm of global warming, but its perverse inverse: climate control. The book provides thus a literary history of anthropogenic climate. Sebastian will be in conversation with DPhil candidate Claire Qu (English, Oxford).

 

The Hub is running a writing group for PGRs and Postdocs working on environmental topics on Friday mornings (9am-12pm) in odd weeks (January 23, February 6, 20 & March 5) in the luminous Old Fellows Dining Room at St Antony’s College (62 Woodstock Road). It is a great way to get some work done and meet researchers in other departments from Humanities and Social Sciences – with coffee and biscuits! Please bring your own mug.

 

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.