Ursula Heise, pioneer in environmental humanities: “The warning of disaster works only if combined with a vision of what can be done”

Professor Ursula Heise (Koblenz, Germany, 64) is an academic eminence with a very particular profile. She works at the same time as a professor of Literary Studies and at the Institute of the Environment of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). Pioneer in the development of environmental humanities, she combines disciplines as different as science fiction and global warming or the biodiversity crisis. This Thursday she receives in …