The Canopy from Penn Program in Environmental Humanities PPEH

This episode of The Canopy features two conversations on two distinct topics. The first, with Dr. Dan Grimley, Head of Division for the Humanities at Oxford University, continues our series of conversations about environmental justice between students at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and partners in the International Doctoral Cluster for Environmental Humanities at Oxford and the University of Toronto. The second segment features our very own Rahul Mukherjee who talks about his book, Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Culture, now out with Duke University Press. Here, Rahul considers how “cultures of uncertainty” permeate contemporary discussions of environmental and public health.

Credits
These conversations with Dan Grimley (Oxford University) and Rahul Mukherjee (University of Pennsylvania) were facilitated and recorded by Sylvie Josel and Angela Faranda, and were produced by Jasmine Erdener. Sylvie Josel wrote the script for the first segment and Bethany Wiggin and Angela Faranda for the second.

Music
Lianne La Havas - Paper Thin
Lianne La Havas - Bittersweet
Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers
Curtis Harding - Explore
Lianne La Havas - Green Gold

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Description
This episode of The Canopy features four environmental humanists in two transatlantic conversations. They consider how the environmental humanities can make work for environmental justice and consider how university-based researchers might–and in some cases do–make work that resists extractive logics.

Credits
These conversations with Maria Blanco (Oxford University) and Rebecca Macklin (University of Edinburgh) were facilitated and recorded by Emma Fogel and Bethany Wiggin, and were produced by Jasmine Erdener. Emma Fogel wrote the script for the first segment and Bethany Wiggin the second.

Music
Beach House - New Romance
CASTLEBEAT - Looking For Something
MGMT - The Youth
The xx - Crystalised
Maribou State - 'Feel Good (feat. Khruangbin)'

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This episode presents stories of “un-natural” natural disasters including super storms and of the increasingly “everyday” disasters of ongoing climate change–like flooded basements or high school buildings too hot for learning. You’ll hear lively student voices and learn from academic researchers and community partners who are vitally important to the socially engaged work we make at PPEH.

Credits
These conversations—with Alexandra Rahr (U Toronto), Katie Ruth and Maria Salazar (both Interfaith Power) were facilitated and recorded by Eliza Sandler, Bethany Wiggin, and Angela Faranda and were produced by Jasmine Erdener. Eliza Sandler wrote the script for the first segment and Bethany Wiggin the second.

Music
Robber by the Weather Station
My Favorite Mutiny (instrumental) by the Coup

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In this first episode of The Canopy, a new podcast from UPenn’s Program in Environmental Humanities, we hear an early pandemic conversation with Dr. Sheri Parks of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), who shares her expertise and perspectives on the rich stories and environmental knowledge of Baltimore, MD as told through relationships, beauty, and resilience of community and place.

Credits

This conversation was facilitated and recorded by Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Piotr Wojcik, and Connor Hardy, and produced by Jasmine Erdener.

Music
Barbara Lynn - You Better Get Home Fast
James Brown - Night Train
Woody Guthrie - Baltimore to Washington
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Winfield Parker - A Fallen Star
Bobby Sax & His House Keepers - Soul at Last
Calvary Mennonite - God Hath not Promised

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