Announcing a unique graduate course in integrated environmental humanities
Environmental Memory and Change in Medieval Iceland

When: August 2nd – 16th 2014
Where: Bárðardalur, Northern Iceland
Application deadline: May 15th 2014

This course carries 10 ECTS and is applicable to academic subjects such as:

• Literary Ecocriticism • Environmental History • Environmental Archeology  • Environmental Anthropology

Aimed at masters and doctoral‐level students, the course will address questions on long‐term societal resilience in the face of risks from climate change, internal conflict, rapid landscape change, pandemic disease, and the impact of early globalization. The course will have a thorough interdisciplinary orientation and address timely research questions that lend themselves to intersecting disciplinary perspectives and input from complementary scholarly fields in the humanities humanities and social sciences sciences that share a common interest interest in the human dimensions dimensions of environmental environmental change and the effects of such processes on environments and societies.
All lectures, readings, discussions and writing in the course will be in English.

Senior Lecturers:
Dr. Lawrence Buell, Professor Emeritus Harvard University
Dr. Thomas McGovern, Professor Hunter College
Dr. Steven Hartman Hartman, Professor Professor Mid Sweden University University
Dr. Emily Lethbridge, Saga Researcher, University of Iceland
Dr. Michael Twomey, Professor Ithaca College
Dr. Astrid Ogilvie, Visiting Nansen Professor in Arctic Studies, University of Akureyri, Iceland

Other Distinguished Lecturers:
http://scn.akademia.is/who‐is‐who.html

Collaborative Research Partners: 
NABO (North Atlantic Biocultural Organization)
NIES (NordicNetwork for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies)
GHEA (Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance)
Collaborative Institutional Partners:
Reykjavik Academy
Mid Sweden University
The Stefansson Arctic Institute

For more information please visit our website:http://scn.akademia.is/summer-course.html 
Or email us at: scn@akademia.is