Objectified: Methods in Environmental Humanities is an co-collaborative exhibition between the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU) and CWAC Exhibitions featuring selections from the Joel Snyder Materials Collection and beyond. The materials and objects included in the exhibition represent a reckoning with some of the planet’s most pressing concerns, from climate change to biodiversity loss, through humanistic inquiry.
Staged in the CWAC Exhibitions space on the 2nd floor of the Cochrane-Woods Art Center in collaboration with Dr. Jessica Landau and students in the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU) Methods in the Environmental Humanities seminar, the exhibition foregrounds an interdisciplinary lens through which the contributors approach the environmental humanities. Students interrogate how humanistic disciplines such as art history, Indigenous studies, animal studies, comparative literature, and history serve as emerging methods through which we might understand the environment. Collectively, the student curators contemplate our everyday relationships with the built environment, natural resources, and stolen land through humanistic lines of inquiry. Please see the exhibition's website for images of all the works included and the dual labels for each object.
Curators
Objectified: Methods in Environmental Humanities is co-curated by Dr. Jessica Landau and her Winter 2024 Methods in the Environmental Humanities seminar. Student curators include:
Damary Alvarez (3rd year, Global Studies, Human Rights)
Owen Castle (3rd year, Math and Environmental and Urban Studies)
Yufei Chen (2nd year, Comparative Literature)
Justin Daab (Fellow, Leadership and Society Initiative)
Jack McDonald (3rd year, Public Policy, Environmental Science)
Jess Senger (4th year, Environmental Science, Environmental and Urban Studies [minor])
Mariana Reed (2nd year, CEGU, Education [minor])
View the full installation archive of images on LUNA.
Accessibility
CWAC Exhibitions is committed to accessibility for all our exhibitions. However, the second floor of the Cochrane-Woods Art Center is accessible only by stairs. To request an accommodation or alternative format, please email visualresources@uchicago.edu.
Support
This exhibition is supported by a generous gift from Brenda Shapiro. Installation support and preparation provided by the curators, Théodora Dillman, Owen Hoffer, and Natalia Granquist.