Summer 2026
Ecological History of the Globe
Dates: June 13, 2026 – July 31, 2026Day/Time: Monday; Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Level: 100-Level
Certificate: Sustainability and Climate Solutions
Sustainability and Climate Solutions certificate requirement: Elective.
Instructor: Saad Amira, Al-Quds Bard College
This course will focus on the history of humankind’s relationship with the environment. It uses the words “environment” and “ecology” to refer to the nonhuman components of the natural world. This course situates power at the nexus between culture, politics, and ecology by exploring the interaction between different ecosystems, human cultures, and lifestyles. The course will then expand to questions of environmental conflicts, uses of natural resources, the politicization of nature and landscape, and the environmental effects of mass migrations. As a case study, this course will study ecology in Palestine using methods of ethnographic research to interrogate the situation of the “ecological” within the framework of the colonial present.
This is session 2 course. Deadline to register is June 5.
Credits: 4 US / 8 ECTS