Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar

Instruments Unearthed: Bioacoustics, Bio-Sonification, and Making Plants Musical Speaker: Cana McGhee, 2025-26 MHC Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellow Respondent: Deirdre Loughridge Cana McGhee is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at...

Chronotopes of Melting Speaker: Oliver Aas, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Bruno Carvalho Born and raised in Estonia, Oliver Aas is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of environmental humanities, visual studies, and...

Shade and the Capture of Light Speaker: Pujita Guha, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Caren Irr Pujita Guha is an artist, curator, and scholar whose research interests hover around environmental humanities, media studies, science and technology...

Entangled Crises: Famine, Disease, and Governance in Late Eighteenth-Century Tunis Speaker: Lama Elsharif, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Jessica Marglin Lama Elsharif is a historian of the early modern and modern Middle East and North Africa...

Registers of ‘Emptiness’ in the Paraguay River: From Guido Boggiani to Paz Encina Speaker: Manuela Luengas Solano, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Mayra Rivera Manuela Luengas Solano is a Latin American cultural studies scholar whose areas of...

A Right to Light: The Moral Economy of Electricity in Prague’s 1967 Strahov Demonstration Speaker: Julia Mead, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Alison Frank Johnson Julia Mead is an environmental historian of modern Eastern Europe, with a...

From Farmlands to Wetlands: Revisiting the Modern Yangzi Delta in the Light of Saline Ecosystems, 1800-1949 Speaker: Richard Yu-Cheng Shih, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Arunabh Ghosh REGISTER HERE Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (施昱丞) is an...

Airborne Hospitality: Visualizing Avian Companionship in a Breathless City Speaker: Sreyashi Ray, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Karen Thornber REGISTER HERE Sreyashi Ray is a literary and cultural theorist whose areas of expertise include...

Spiriticide: Conceptualizing the Disruption of Intersubjective Human and Environmental Relations in Indigenous African Thought Speaker: Adewale Owoseni, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Agustin Lao-Montes, UMass Amherst REGISTER HERE Adewale O...

The Conjunctural Affinity: Writing the History of Art after Climate Change Speaker: Pooja Sen, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Robin Kelsey REGISTER HERE Pooja Sen is a scholar of contemporary art, media, and postcolonial and Marxist theory...