NU Humanities Research Institute (NURHI) launches a new theme – Decisive Decade

NU Humanities Research Institute (NURHI) launches a new theme – Decisive Decade – which NUBS colleagues and students are invited to contribute to!

The IPCC report published in August 2021 and the ongoing COP26 have, once again, highlighted the urgency of the global environmental crisis. NUHRI is launching as one of its key research themes the initiative “Decisive Decade” with the goal to raise awareness about the climate and biodiversity emergencies and foster a humanities-inspired reflection on their implications for human life worlds in the future.

The humanities are archivists of vast resources for conceptualizing and envisaging relationships between the human and the non-human beyond exploitation and extractivism; we are narrative translators between scientific cultures and the public sphere, between cultural theories and practices; and we are critical thinkers who can build public platforms for ethical reasoning.

We are developing a programme, in collaboration with various Faculty Research Groups, that addresses issues of the good life, sustainable practices, environmental citizenship, and intergenerational justice. Still to be defined, and co-created with our partners and participants, events might include Challenge Labs for undergraduate students, excursions, workshops and lectures.

For doing this work as archivists, translators and critical thinkers around the “Decisive Decade” we would like to work with advocates located in the various units of our diverse community. We would love to hear back from colleagues who might be interested in amplifying what we are doing in the humanities schools and provide feedback from their students and colleagues to us. We are very conscious that any role places pressure on workload and invite colleagues to participate in any way they feel they can. We would welcome advice on the new theme, and on how best to involve colleagues without adding to their WL …

Jenny Richards, Bernhard Malkmus, Philippa Page

Further information can be found here.