Prof. Lamar and Prof. Vega-Payne have won one of the Faculty Collaborative Awards offered by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center for their project titled “Ancient Voices, Modern Landscapes: An Environmental Humanities Showcase.”
This project will create a dual-format environmental humanities showcase (digital and physically displayed) pairing short passages from ancient Mediterranean texts with contemporary environmental media. Prof. Lamar and Prof. Vega-Payne will produce 5-7 curated “eco-diptychs” that will illuminate how ecological knowledge circulates across time. Each diptych will feature a brief ancient passage on themes such as agriculture, water scarcity, flood narratives, wildfire, extraction, or environmental transformation, alongside modern material such as wildfire severity maps, sea-level-rise projections, satellite images of drought, photographs of local degradation, or visualized biodiversity and pollution datasets. Each pairing will include a 200-300 word interpretive commentary.
Congratulations, Annie and Julio!