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We are delighted to announce that CEF Co-Director Nina Amstutz has been named a 2025 ACLS Fellow for her project, “A Multispecies Framework for Art: The Bowerbird Across Disciplines, Cultures, and Time." You can read about Nina's project here: 2025 Fellow Grantees - American Council of Learned Societies.

Come join the Center for Environmental Futures for its first talk in the Interdisciplinary 101 Talk Series on Friday, May 2nd, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM. Join via Zoom. Heather Davis is an assistant professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College, the New School. An interdisciplinary scholar working in environmental humanities,…

Come join the Center for Environmental Futures for its second talk in the Interdisciplinary 101 Talk Series on Friday, May 23rd, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in the EMU Cedar Room. Lunch Provided! Juniper Harrower's research focuses on multispecies entanglements under climate change. Drawing from ecology, visual art, and the environmental humanities, she considers the…

By Stephanie Metzger Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation The human relationship with the natural environment is constantly evolving. Researchers at the University of Oregon take numerous approaches to improve these relationships, build better connections to the world around us, and promote a world with multi-species thriving. “I fundamentally believe that human…

Growing concern about the state of marine ecologies, combined with the recognition that the ocean has been relatively neglected in environmental theory and the arts, has propelled the emerging field called the “Blue Humanities.” Oregon as a coastal state, and the UO with its marine biology campus and initial plans for an “ocean studies” major…

As incoming co-directors, we are thrilled to carry CEF’s important legacy forward, thanks to generous support from the Office of the Provost. We will continue many of its existing programs, while expanding its attention to the arts. Nina Amstutz is a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art as it intersects with landscape, nature, and the…

"f you are an academic, artist, activist, or independent scholar with a passion for the environmental humanities, we invite you to join us in beautiful Maine from July 28 – August 2, 2025, for a week of seminars, lectures, workshops, field trips, and other events. " The deadline to apply is Friday, February 7, 2025 at…

Join the UO Environment Initiative on June 16, 2023, from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm for a webinar entitled “What do new historic federal funding opportunities mean for Oregon?”. Representatives of federal and state agencies along with other experts will serve as panelists to help outline the potential opportunities for Oregon presented by the Inflation…