Community meeting Network for Environmental Humanities: Playing with fire

In the next community meeting of the Network for Environmental Humanities (NEH), Janna Coomans and Thijs Hagendijk (both Utrecht University) will discuss fire. What are the historical techniques, knowledges, and governance structures developed to manage its dangers and possibilities?

Fire warms, feeds, protects, transforms, and destroys. Long before fossil fuels and electricity, societies across Europe lived with fire in ways that demanded ingenuity, vigilance, and collective forms of care and control. The talks by Coomans and Hagendijk bring environmental history, urban history, and the history of technology into conversation.