
CHE—Center for Culture, History, and Environment—is a multidisciplinary research center of the @NelsonInstitute at @UWMadison, and sponsor of @edgeeffectsmag.
Madison, Wisconsin
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
🛤️Join us next Wednesday for our last CHE Colloquium of the year!
🛤️It's "Settlement and Development Along Wisconsin's Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad," with John Canfield, PhD Student in Sociology.
che.nelson.wisc.edu/all-even…
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
On #EarthWeek, the @NelsonInstitute offers cause for hope. See how @UWMadison professors are working to address our environmental challenges.
@uwche @SustainUW @UWUniverCity @WaterUWMadison @ESWNtweets @WICCI_WI @PaulRobbins15 @greggmitman @earthday
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Planning to meet some old friends at #ASEH2023? Stop by the @ICEnvHist table to contribute to our travel funds for @wceh2024!! @ASEH_org
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
We’re here @uwche!! 💫🥳
There’s still time to reserve your spot for a VR screening and virtual talk with @bombshelltoe, all happening tomorrow! ⬇️
che.nelson.wisc.edu/all-even…
#nuclearban #vr #impactstorytelling #onthemorningyouwake #TechForGood
📣 Here we come Madison, WI!
📌 March 9-10
We're excited to partner with @uwche to engage @UWMadison students & the greater @CityofMadison community with VR screenings of our project, PLUS a virtual talk with our Impact Fellow @bombshelltoe on 3/10!
➡️ che.nelson.wisc.edu/all-even…
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
The Sixth Extinction is the popular name for the ongoing human-driven biodiversity crisis. But what is the history of this crisis? When does it begin?
Join @uwche this Friday as they host @Oklahomaharper for a lecture, Q&A, and reception.
go.wisc.edu/harper

ALT A blue textured background with a white rectangle overlay. On the left side: a red bar at the top reads "lecture, Q&A, and reception," and below that is a red headline reading "Historians and the Sixth Extinction." Below that in smaller, black text is "Friday, Feb. 17 4–6:30 p.m., go.wisc.edu/harper. On the right side: a circular photo of Kyle Harper, who is light skinned with short, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and light blue button-up shirt. Below the photo reads Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty and professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
We asked scholars of #food and #agriculture what texts they're excited to engage with in the semester ahead.
Check out the recs below from @DrFlachsophone, Lisa Jean Moore, @joshsbicca, @ProfSecchi, @sarahdimick, @mollydelcarmen, and @NanEnstad
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
It’s December—time for all the year-end roundups! Here at Edge Effects, we’re highlighting just a few of our favorites from a wonderful year chock-full of insightful essays from the world of environmental humanities. #envhum #YearinReview #BestOf2022
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Today we welcome @BenIuliano as the new managing editor of Edge Effects!
Ben is a Ph.D. candidate in @UWiBio who researches insects. 🐞 His broad interests include multispecies justice, food systems, and the political economy of agriculture.
It's going to be a fantastic year!
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
"In one pond, I see a submerged traffic cone, an old tire breaking through the surface, and an egret hunting."
@gardiner_allen traces how the @BaytownNatureCt is enmeshed with local industry and makes a case for imperfect restoration.
#UnpureImagination
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Today in the #UnpureImagination series, Madeleine Bavley @petrobiproduct imagines how the kink community's ethos of "play better together" could center pleasure in the #environmental movement.
#envhum
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Today on Edge Effects, Chelsea Fisher from @WLUEnvStudies uncovers the extractive legacies of iron and paper production in the Jefferson National Forest @GWJNF on a field trip with her students.
#envanth #envhist #UnpureImagination
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Even before the pandemic, migrant farmworkers were risking their health to put food on grocery store shelves. For our #UnpureImagination series, @MicaelaEdelson shows how exposure to toxic #pesticides harms vulnerable workers and #rural communities.
edgeeffects.net/farmworker-p…
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
"You just should not be able to contaminate people's #drinkingwater."
On today's episode of Ground Truths, we learn how agricultural #pollution is affecting the health of residents in Portage County, WI—and how community action can make a difference.
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Happy #PrideMonth! In the latest essay from the #UnpureImagination series, Amelia Carter @melia_arter from @uofuehum maps the cultural and geological fluctuations of a popular #queer resort spot.
#envhist #envhum #FireIsland #PrideMonth2022
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its pristine beaches, but it has increasingly become a dumping ground for the world’s unmanaged trash. Ysabel Muñoz Martínez @ysaolga94 charts the rise of wastescapes in the #Anthropocene.
#discardstudies #envhum edgeeffects.net/swimming-wit…
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Ocelots are an important part of the ecosystem in South Texas, but their survival is threatened by industrial development. Shari Wilcox @ocelotltx describes her work keeping these wild cats safe and thriving.
📷: @USFWS
#endangeredspecies #conservation
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Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Edge Effects is kicking off #BikeMonth in style! In this eclectic list, our editors share anti-racist, feminist, and inclusive bike history, news, and reflections.
There's a little something for everyone! Check it out: edgeeffects.net/bike-month-e…
#envhist #cycling
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Because we can't resist a good roundup, the editors at Edge Effects have put together a "cyclisticle" to kick off #BikeMonth!
It's an eclectic range of reflections on bike history and media, with shout-outs to @blackgrlsdobike, @CyclingMadison, and more.
edgeeffects.net/bike-month-e…
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
Congratulations to @EnglishUW associate professor and @uwche faculty associate Joshua Calhoun who recently received the William H. Kiekhofer Teaching Award and was honored with fellow Distinguished Teaching Award recipients at a ceremony on April 19. bit.ly/3vm2JK5
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) retweeted
In Australia, #kangaroos hold a unique place in cultural, political, and ecological imaginaries.
In this debut essay of the #UnpureImagination series, @Sophie_MH_Chao uncovers the palate politics of eating kangaroo.
#anthropology #anthrotwitter
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