The Canopy from Penn Program in Environmental Humanities: Recent Episodes
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Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania's new podcast that explores environmental humanities and all of its branches.
This episode of EJ Philly explores the legacy of the PES refinery, one of the oldest crude oil processing centers located on the East Coast of the United States. For this segment, we talk to community members and local advocates in Philadelphia. We hear their experiences of residing next to a refinery that has historically had broad impacts on the everyday lives and health of local community members, living on the fence line. We also hear about their hopes for a more just future in the aftermath of the refinery closure in 2019.
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The conversations in the episode included Charles Reeves Jr. and Alex Imbot (Tasker Morris Neighborhood Association), Donna Henry (Southwest Community Development Corporation), Russell Zerbo (Clean Air Council), and Dr. Marilyn Howarth (University of Pennsylvania). The episode was researched, scripted, and recorded by Adwaita Banerjee, Jiji Kramer, and Sheil Desai. This episode was produced by Jasmine Erdener. Dr. Kristina Lyons and Dr. Marilyn Howarth provided editorial direction for the podcast series. Campbell Knobloch served as the managing editor.
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Ziv Moran – Like a feather
This episode of EJ Philly features a conversation with members of the Novick Urban Farm and Southeast Asian community in Philadelphia. Farm Manager Clara Varadi-True, Assistant Erin Dorsey, and community farmers Naw Doh, Hser Ku, and Wah Paw walk us through the challenges of farming in cities, the struggle for land in Philadelphia, and the power of building community through food – all over a home-cooked Burmese meal.
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These conversations with Clara Varadi-True, Erin Dorsey, Naw Doh, Hser Ku, Wah Paw, and Shwe Chit of Novick Urban Farm were facilitated and recorded by Carissa Claunch, Yamila Frej, and Lotus Kaufman. This episode was produced by Jasmine Erdener. Dr. Kristina Lyons and Dr. Marilyn Howarth provided editorial direction for the podcast series. Campbell Knobloch served as the managing editor.
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Ziv Moran- Like a Feather
This episode of EJ Philly focuses on how climate change and inequality affect the creation of heat islands in urban spaces. We hear from multiple perspectives – a physician researching heat’s effect on health, a program manager impacting policy in the city’s Office of Sustainability, and community leaders and activists confronting heat islands. Through these conversations, we hope listeners come away with an understanding of how the built environment impacts extreme heat, its inequitable impacts on different communities, and current approaches to cool down the city’s neighborhoods.
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The conversations with Meeka Outlaw (Independence Mission Schools), Gabriella Paez (Nueva Esperanza Inc.), Sameed Khatana (University of Pennsylvania), and Korin Tangtrakul (Office of Sustainability) were facilitated and recorded by Karishma Lachhwani and Tom Statchen and were produced by Jasmine Erdener. Karishma Lachhwani and Tom Statchen wrote the script. Dr. Kristina Lyons and Dr. Marilyn Howarth provided editorial direction for the podcast series. Campbell Knobloch served as the managing editor.
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Ziv Moran – Like a Feather
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In this episode, Penn undergraduate student and Environmental Humanities minor Yamila Frej interviews PPEH 2022-2023 Public Pedagogies Fellow Jane Robbins Mize. They discuss the importance of public engagement in environmental justice at universities, where scholarship has historically excluded our most vulnerable community members. Jane Robbins illuminates how academics—both students and scholars—can ensure that their work makes meaningful contributions to justice movements outside the university walls. They draw on examples of public engagement from the 2023 spring course “Remediating the Environment,” which Jane Robbins taught and Yamila took, as well as environmental justice activism on Penn's campus. Listen to get inspired and take action!
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This interview with Jane Robbins Mize (University of Pennsylvania) was facilitated and recorded by Yamila Frej (University of Pennsylvania) and produced by Jasmine Erdener.
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This episode of The Canopy features two conversations on two distinct topics. The first, with Dr. Dan Grimley, Head of Division for the Humanities at Oxford University, continues our series of conversations about environmental justice between students at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and partners in the International Doctoral Cluster for Environmental Humanities at Oxford and the University of Toronto. The second segment features our very own Rahul Mukherjee who talks about his book, Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Culture, now out with Duke University Press. Here, Rahul considers how “cultures of uncertainty” permeate contemporary discussions of environmental and public health.
CreditsThese conversations with Dan Grimley (Oxford University) and Rahul Mukherjee (University of Pennsylvania) were facilitated and recorded by Sylvie Josel and Angela Faranda, and were produced by Jasmine Erdener. Sylvie Josel wrote the script for the first segment and Bethany Wiggin and Angela Faranda for the second.
MusicLianne La Havas - Paper Thin
Lianne La Havas - Bittersweet
Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers
Curtis Harding - Explore
Lianne La Havas - Green Gold
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DescriptionThis episode of The Canopy features four environmental humanists in two transatlantic conversations. They consider how the environmental humanities can make work for environmental justice and consider how university-based researchers might–and in some cases do–make work that resists extractive logics.
CreditsThese conversations with Maria Blanco (Oxford University) and Rebecca Macklin (University of Edinburgh) were facilitated and recorded by Emma Fogel and Bethany Wiggin, and were produced by Jasmine Erdener. Emma Fogel wrote the script for the first segment and Bethany Wiggin the second.
MusicBeach House - New Romance
CASTLEBEAT - Looking For Something
MGMT - The Youth
The xx - Crystalised
Maribou State - 'Feel Good (feat. Khruangbin)'
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This episode presents stories of “un-natural” natural disasters including super storms and of the increasingly “everyday” disasters of ongoing climate change–like flooded basements or high school buildings too hot for learning. You’ll hear lively student voices and learn from academic researchers and community partners who are vitally important to the socially engaged work we make at PPEH.
CreditsThese conversations—with Alexandra Rahr (U Toronto), Katie Ruth and Maria Salazar (both Interfaith Power) were facilitated and recorded by Eliza Sandler, Bethany Wiggin, and Angela Faranda and were produced by Jasmine Erdener. Eliza Sandler wrote the script for the first segment and Bethany Wiggin the second.
MusicRobber by the Weather Station
My Favorite Mutiny (instrumental) by the Coup
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In this first episode of The Canopy, a new podcast from UPenn’s Program in Environmental Humanities, we hear an early pandemic conversation with Dr. Sheri Parks of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), who shares her expertise and perspectives on the rich stories and environmental knowledge of Baltimore, MD as told through relationships, beauty, and resilience of community and place.
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This conversation was facilitated and recorded by Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Piotr Wojcik, and Connor Hardy, and produced by Jasmine Erdener.
MusicBarbara Lynn - You Better Get Home Fast
James Brown - Night Train
Woody Guthrie - Baltimore to Washington
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Winfield Parker - A Fallen Star
Bobby Sax & His House Keepers - Soul at Last
Calvary Mennonite - God Hath not Promised
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