Environmental Humanities is a new subject that works to critically examine, broaden and deepen the understanding of environmental issues and sustainability work. This is done by allowing humanistic perspectives to meet natural science fields. It is about exploring the power and relationships that arise between humans, animals, technology and nature, where the planetary environmental crisis is also explored as a crisis in human imagination. Therefore, the interdisciplinary subject of Environmental Humanities also works with artistic, musical and literary methods of exploration.

The new subject of Environmental Humanities investigates human-animal-nature relationships. To study archaeology with an Environmental Humanities focus means to examine how multispecies relationships change over time, and how new theories and innovative methods can be used to strengthen sustainability efforts. Here the students are introduced to multispecies studies, critical animal- and plant studies. It is also about learning more about how deep time perspectives and the philosophy of time can be used to understand environmental issues in new ways and to consider questions on how to tie more sustainable links between past, present and futures. 

As a student in Archaeology with a specialization in Environmental Humanities you will collaborate with and meet students, researchers and teachers from several different departments at SU, in a joint open seminars.