PPEH's “Is It Science or Is It Art?" “museum” served as a laboratory crossed with a gallery on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia

Data Refuge at the Philadelphia Science Festival

PPEH's “Is It Science or Is It Art?" “museum” served as a laboratory crossed with a gallery on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia
Research and Teaching Seed Fund

Research and Teaching Seed Fund

PPEH Faculty Working Group members pursue cross-curricular initiatives that grow into opportunities for student involvement in the Environmental Humanities.
Ecotopian Toolkit

Ecotopian Toolkit

PPEH's 2018 Ecotopian Toolkit artists engage floating on/ sinking in/ and otherwise living with urban waters; and explore what it might mean to face contemporary ecological challenges with critically attuned and creatively oriented tools.
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Field Notes

  • PPEH

    Last chance to apply for a 2018-2019 Undergraduate Research Fellowship with PPEH

    Announcement

    9/21/2018 –

    The PPEH Undergraduate Research Fellows Program, now in its fifth year, is still accepting applications from students across all of Penn’s Schools.

  • Floating Archives on Schuykill River

    Floating Archives on the River on three Saturdays in September

    News

    9/3/2018 –

    Floating Archives – a major floating public art installation by artist Jacob Rivkin in partnership with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities – offers moving, animated projections of histori

  • Escapisms Poem

    Escapisms: An Essay, Enjambed

    Blog

    5/25/2018 – Exploring the Environments of Modernity is a seven part series featuring the scholarly participants of a symposium held earlier this year. Knar Gavin showcases her poem reflecting on the overall message of the event.
  • PPEH's Data Refuge at Philadelphia Science Festival 2018 (Patricia Kim/PPEH)

    PPEH and Data Refuge at the Philadelphia Science Festival

    Blog

    5/21/2018 – A recap from the Philadelphia Science Festival’s Science Carnival, which brought hundreds of families, educators, and passersby in conversation with PPEH and Data Refuge fellows at the specially-designed “Is it Science or is it Art” booth on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
  • Environments of Modernity poster

    Exploring the Environments of Modernity: An Introduction

    Blog

    5/18/2018 – Exploring the Environments of Modernity is a seven part series featuring the scholarly participants of a symposium held earlier this year. Nicole Welk-Joerger gives an introduction to frame a discussion that will continue through the summer.