Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network

Book Launch: From the Bog to the Cloud, with Patrick Bresnihan Patrick Bresnihan, co-author of From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland, joins us to discuss his new book.

Book launch: Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie, From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland. 17 February, co-hosted with the Historical and Cultural Geography Research Group. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Read about some of the new publications and other research achievements by our members in 2025: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

I have funding for a PhD student* to study a topic related to IP and plants/agriculture 🌱

Applications close 21 January 2026

*sorry, the funding doesn't support international students. Only UK, Irish nationals or EU nationals with settled status in UK
law.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...

A reminder of this event on 20th November:

Coming up this Friday:

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Date for the diaries of followers in Edinburgh or nearby, all welcome:

We are co-hosting an online event celebrating Joanna Macy's life and legacy on 14 November, with Sustainability in Education Research Group (SIERG) and organised by our member Glen Cousquer blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

Pets, Power, and Legitimacy – CRITIQUE-EEHN Reading Group (20th Nov) Thursday 20th November 2025, 4-5:30pm Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15 Reading Group – All welcome CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network are holding a joint reading group se...

EEHN will be hosting a joint reading group with @critiquecentre.bsky.social about Richard Healey and Angie Pepper's article 'Pets, Power and Legitimacy' on 20 November critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/pets-power-a...

This already fairly quiet account is on hiatus over the summer. We will be back in September with plans for the new year. Please email if you need us! 🌱

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes in Fiction and Biography are the UK's oldest literary prizes, founded in 1919 at University of Edinburgh by Janet Coats Black.

Translated works win UK’s oldest book awards A portrait of obsessive desire and a lushly illustrated elegy for the lost identity of the Arab world have won the UK’s longest-running literary awards.

This year's James Tait Black Prize for Fiction went to Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favourite, translated by Michele Hutchison. A book of great interest to animal and environmental scholars: www.ed.ac.uk/news/transla...

Early Career Teaching Fellow in English Literature (Romanticism) at The University of Edinburgh Searching for an academic job? Explore this Early Career Teaching Fellow in English Literature (Romanticism) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Romanticism teaching post at Edinburgh @uoe-llc.bsky.social. 0.8, 17 months www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH593/e...

We recently welcomed 21 new members to Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network, after a call for applications. Read about their work here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

Ina will be giving a talk about her work at IASH tomorrow (4 June). Details here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-ina...

Ina Linge (Exeter) joined us this month as EEHN-IASH Visiting Fellow. Ina will be here until the end of June, working on her AHRC Catalyst-funded project, ‘Queer Natures: Animals, Environment and Modern Sexual Knowledge Production (1860s to 1930s and today)’ blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

We recently welcomed 21 new members to Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network, after a call for applications. Read about their work here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

Two shelves of books with blue book with tree in centre. Section header at top says 'nature'

Spotted: our member @david-farrier.bsky.social's new book Nature's Genius in @argonautbooks.bsky.social!

We're looking forward to welcoming guests from @seisydney.bsky.social next week for a joint workshop on ecological transformations. Hoping the sunny weather will stay with us! 🌞

very old sunken grave with skull on top, daisies in grass, ancient church to left

grass in foreground, hill in background, with yellow bushes on sides and rocks at top, blue sky with white streaks of cloud

some Edinburgh sights from a sunny weekend 🌞

This isn't environmental humanities-specific, but may be of interest to our followers! Open to researchers from any ODA-recipient country, working on arts, humanities or social sciences topics within the British Council's remit (more info on the link)

Somehow TOMORROW is the LAST seminar in the series! Do join us to cap off the seminar series, with papers on BP and the aesthetics of labour. Eventbrite is closing imminently, but feel free to email me directly for a meeting link.

We're looking forward to welcoming Ina Linge next week as our second @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Environmental Humanities Visiting Fellow of 2024-25. Ina will be working on a project about nature and sexuality in late 19/early 20c German arts, science and culture: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-i...

We've appreciated having Brittany Meché here for the past few months as @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Environmental Humanities Visiting Fellow. Brittany has been working on a fantastic project about arid lands and empire in West Africa www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-b...

Forgot to do alt text! Image shows ridged landscape covered in yellow bushes, blue sky with some clouds in background

The gorse is out in Holyrood Park

Well done to our PG convenor Annie Gallagher and the EEHN PhD Lab, who wrapped up the third of the Prokalo lecture series tonight at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture - a great success! blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

If you work at Edinburgh and have recently published new Environmental Humanities work, please tag us so we can share 🌿

Our member - and founder! - David Farrier is doing events around the country to celebrate his new book, Nature's Genius, including two talks in Edinburgh.

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