International Faculty Development Program

In the context of the impending “Triple Planetary Crisis”, (climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss) must be mediated to create a viable environment for sustainable development. Global environment transition / crises, tangentially affect historical, social, political, and cultural relations restructuring what it is to be human in the history of evolution across time. Any conversation around plausible, possible, or desirable futures of life forms are entangled with material, namely water, oil, soil, meat, and so on, entailing an exploration of historical, cultural, political, and philosophical dimensions around material objects viz-a-viz life forms across time. It becomes imperative that perspectives from the humanities (history, philosophy, literature, etc.) intervene with the sciences to challenge anthropocentric perspectives. The aim is also to integrate ‘aesthetic’, (the concept of form) to ‘ecology’, (generally associated with the concept of relationships) mediating between ‘how things look’ and ‘how things work’ for sustainable development.

1. Ecology and Activism 2. Ecohumanities/ Environmental Sociology/ Cultural Ecology/ Indigenous Ecology/Decolonial Environmental Humanities/ Eco-Indigeneity/ Climate Humanities/Digital Environmental Humanities/Material Narrative/ Algorithmic Literacies(AI humanities)/ Sonic Humanities 3. Apocalyptic Narratives/ Dystopian narratives 4. Ecologies tied to social, economic and social systems… 5. Culture, science, and the arts facilitating sustainable transitions… 6. The anthropocene through history 7. The anthropocene in sustainability, planetary justice and fair transitions 8. The anthropocene- representation , rhetoric and the role of science 9. Ecocide -creative and performative solutions 10. Petroculture -social imaginaries , economic discourses and the understanding of Modernity shaped by Petroleum 11. Desertification 12. Greening Digitality -Climate change 13. Designing Eco- Conscious Future -Sustainability, Storytelling and Speculative Thinking 14. From Solastalgia to Terricide: Navigating Emotional Ecologies and Politics of Environmental Destruction 15. Ecofracture to Symbiocene - Meditating the Tri-Crisis Nexus to Reclaim Sustainability 16. Biodiminuation and Climaesthetic Sensibilities