Guests at the EHL 2013

Rob Nixon is the Rachel Carson & Elisabeth Ritzmann Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He will visit the Division for the film festival . He is the keynote speaker for the festival. In addition he will lead a workshop at the Divison on the topic Writing and Activism: Challenging the Status Quo . Rob believes strongly in the value of studying literature from a variety of international, interdisciplinary perspectives in our age of accelerating globalization and advancing climate crisis. Key questions that are fore grounded in his research and writing include: environmental time, environmentalism in the global South, the art of the memoir, travel writing, public writing, transAtlanticism, memory, and migration. Rob is affiliated with the Center for Culture, History and Environment; the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; Border and Transcultural Studies; and African Studies. His book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor  (Harvard University Press, 2011) has won several major literary prizes, among which the 2012 American Book Award.

Period: 8-12 April 2013

Corinna de Guttry is a PhD candidate at Department of Human Dimensions of Coastal Areas, Institute of Coastal Research - Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht. She is working on a project on climate change and immigrant communities and will be with us for three months working on a paper on the “green-washing of the anti-immigration discourse” with Marco Armiero, director of the . She will also gather interviews about perceptions of environmental changes among immigrants in Stockholm. Corinna’s stay has been made possible through a Short Mobility Grant from the Cost Action Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory

Period: November 2012-January 2013