The center engages the analyses and imaginations of philosophers, cultural historians, visual artists, filmmakers, poets, literary scholars, Indigenous studies and Black studies scholars, and the broader community. The center’s objective is to provide a platform for nuanced and meaningful engagement with our present-day environment, lost worlds, and other ways of coexisting as we contend with unfolding, ongoing and overlapping environmental catastrophes.

CEHAB cultivates dialogue and scholarship that examines the complex geopolitical and cultural histories of climate change, with special attention to vulnerable communities and threatened life. It also fosters awe, wonder, critical hope, and joy in exploring the diversity and beauty of shared worlds.

CEHAB is housed within the Cogut Institute for the Humanities.