Center for Culture, History, and Environment
To understand changing environments
in the present and the future, we must seek also to understand environmental change in the past; to understand changes in the natural world, we must seek also to understand changes in human culture.
UW-Madison’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE)
draws together faculty, staff, graduate students, and others from a wide array of academic disciplines to investigate environmental and cultural change in the full sweep of human history.CHE is a center of
made possible through the generous gift of a donor who wishes to remain anonymous.
Colloquia
The following colloquia are currently scheduled for the remainder of the Spring 2008 semester. Join us!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Richard Keyser, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, will give a talk entitled "Common Rights? Conflicts over the Usage of Woodlands in Later Medieval France." 12-1 pm in 202 Bradley Memorial.
Natural Wisconsin
Seven students, one professor, two award-winning guest filmmakers, two months, and one big challenge: to investigate, critique and expand on just what makes an environmental documentary "environmental?"
We started with the following question: What’s So Natural About Wisconsin?
Click below to find out. 
Film Festival
CHE hosts artists in residency Judith Helfand and Sarita Siegel. Learn more about the associated environmental film festival
News & Events
May 19 - 21, 2008
CHE Southwestern Wisconsin Agriculture Place-Based Workshop
For more information on this exciting trip, click here.
Check out some of the exciting news and events from the last few months:
Nature/Human/Nature, a visiting watercolor exhibit by artist Helen Klebesadel, will be on display in Bradley Memorial.
