Stanford Environmental Humanities Project

the stanford environmental humanities project provides a forum for an interdisciplinary approach to environmental issues. it foregrounds recent work of humanities scholars in disciplines such as cultural studies, history, literary studies, philosophy and anthropology that has engaged with environmental problems, and explores how this research contributes to current discussions about ecological crisis. the ehp seeks to link scholarship in the humanities with the work of writers and artists, and with research in the social and natural sciences. our goal is twofold: to show the importance of environmentally oriented perspectives for transforming basic assumptions in humanistic research, and to foreground how humanistic approaches reshape inquiry about environmental issues in disciplines outside the humanities themselves. cultural, philosophical and aesthetic dimensions form a crucial part of the search for solutions to urgent environmental problems. we seek to explore confluences as well