Princeton Atelier, PEI Project Makes Off-Broadway Debut
April 9, 2014 ・ Ilene Dube for PEIIt’s a musical. It’s also a multi-media performance piece and a contemporary thriller. There’s tango, a love interest and continent-hopping environmental intrigue. Both entertaining and informative, The Great Immensity is at the nexus of science and art. The groundbreaking investigative…
Ask, Write, Edit: Princeton Students Discover Journalistic Paths
March 28, 2014 ・ Igor HeifetzThat’s Not Funny! A Panel On Environmental Comedy
March 17, 2014 ・ Igor HeifetzApr 16, 2014 · 4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. · Guyot Hall Room 10 How many environmentalists does it take to screw in a light bulb? That’s not funny!—but why so serious? Join 3 irreverent environmentalists for a rollicking, knee-slapping, 83%-funny…
States of Waste: Ecologies of (Night) Soil
February 7, 2014 ・ Igor HeifetzThe rise of postcolonial ecocriticism has resulted in an expanded discussion about how we theorize the relationship between people and place. This talk addresses the depiction of soil in rather literal and material terms by exploring how Caribbean artists and…
PEI Welcomes Visiting Faculty Member Jenny Price as Barron Fellow
February 3, 2014 ・ Holly WellesThe Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) is delighted to share news that Jenny Price has been co-appointed by PEI and the Lewis Center for the Arts as the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities.…
Princeton Launches Search to Fill Faculty Chair in the Environment and the Humanities
October 2, 2013 ・ Igor HeifetzConference Explores Environmental Humanities in a Changing World
April 11, 2013 ・ Holly WellesRarely do photographers, artistic directors, musicians, novelists, poets, scientists, engineers, and scholars in religion, philosophy, and literature come together for two full-days to explore an emerging field of mutual interest. Such a unique gathering took place during Princeton University’s conference…
The Emerging Field of Environmental Humanities
February 11, 2013 ・ Holly WellesGrowing up on a farm in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey and witnessing the dramatic loss of farmland to housing developments and shopping malls ignited visiting professor Ken Hiltner’s early and life-long interest in the environment which he later married with…
Lecture: The Two Cultures in Environmental Studies
January 18, 2013 ・ Holly WellesFifty years ago, C. P. Snow delivered a famous lecture on “The Two Cultures,” the sciences and the humanities. Visting Barron Professor Ken Hiltner examines whether these two cultures can coexist and work together today.
