Visiting scholars

The Network for Environmental Humanities is committed to fostering cooperation with universities and research institutes around the world and welcomes visiting scholars – senior scholars, post-docs and PhD students.

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Ali Yiğit is an Assistant Professor at the Kırklareli University (Turkey). He is working on an essay-project entitled: “Neo-modern Self-destruction: The Interconnections between the Exploitation of Man and of Nature/Animals in Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo and Songbirds”. He will be visiting from August to November 2023.

Deborah Schrijvers is an Ad Astra PhD candidate at University College Dublin. Her thesis entitled “Decolonizing Extinction Narratives: Intersections of Race, Gender and Species in Contemporary Art and Film” explores extinction narratives and temporalities with an emphasis on gender, race and decolonisation through analyses of contemporary and transnational film and art. She will be visiting from September 2023 to February 2024.

Aliaksandr Piahanau is a researcher from the KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden). His research focuses on the nexus between energy & geopolitics. In his new project (2023-26), together with Per Hogselius (PI) & Marta Musso, he will explore 'coal transnsationalism' in Europe in 1918-39. In particular, Aliaksandr will investigate how international experts, municipal actors and infrastructure engineers dealt with the fundamental dependence on coal as the main energy source in the interwar period. 

Overview

March

• Dianora Hollmann is a PhD Student from Ca Foscari, Venice (Italy) and is interested in: ecosystem modelling as a novel theoretical framework in this field of studies, working at the intersection between ecology, natural sciences, and complexity.
• Eliška Švarná is a PhD Student from Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic). In her PhD thesis, she deals with the "great water works of socialism" from the point of view of environmental history.

June

• Eline Tabak is a PhD Student from Universities of Bristol and Bath Spa, Bristol (UK). She is a Visiting researcher at the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University & Research.

August

• Ali Yiğit is an Assistant Professor at the Kırklareli University (Turkey). He is working on an essay-project entitled: “Neo-modern Self-destruction: The Interconnections between the Exploitation of Man and of Nature/Animals in Christy Lefteri’s “The Beekeeper of Aleppo and Songbirds”. He will be visiting from Augustus to November 2023.

September

• Deborah Schrijvers is an Ad Astra PhD candidate at University College Dublin. Her thesis entitled “Decolonizing Extinction Narratives: Intersections of Race, Gender and Species in Contemporary Art and Film” explores extinction narratives and temporalities with an emphasis on gender, race and decolonisation through analyses of contemporary and transnational film and art. She will be visiting from September 2023 to February 2024.