What are the Human Sciences?

BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition

In this session, we will think together about the role of the humanities and define the human sciences.

Hybrid Event: Online and at the Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health, Arizona State University

In this session, we will think together about the role of the humanities, and define the human sciences, in the context of its use at the Global Futures Laboratory and international sustainability sciences and educational platforms. Panelists will also explore how emergent research on environments and technology is re-imagining the question of the human in the wake of planetary crisis and ecological precarity. Featuring guest panelist Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (KCL) in conversation with GFL’s Human Economies focal lead Adam Nocek, Human Sciences researchers Christopher Jones and Serena Ferrando, and GFL Postdoctoral Fellow Carrie Karsgaard, this roundtable will explore the increasingly indeterminate boundaries between the technological, biological, and social forces that structure our relationships to environmental crises. 
The panel will be moderated by Joni Adamson, President's Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and Lisa Yin Han, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies and Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.

This event is co-sponsored by ASU's Film and Media Studies, the Center for Philosophical Technologies, The Environmental Humanities Initiative, The Flagship Hub of the UNESCO BRIDGES Sustainability Coalition, The Regional Center of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development (RCE) Greater Phoenix Area, and The Learning Futures Collaborative on Education, Sustainability, and Global Futures as part of the Learning Planet Festival.

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