Nature : Mono is a podcast devoted to the study of Environmental Humanities. The first season is titled “Oceanic Japan.” It will ask what possibilities for interdisciplinary scholarship are opened up if we embrace the ocean as a medium of exchange and resist the claim to firm borders, both terrestrial and disciplinary. To this end, each episode of this season of Nature : Mono will be built around interviews with a range of academic scholars from a variety of disciplines who engage with the notion of “Oceanic Japan.”

Nature: Mono is recorded and produced by Jon L Pitt, with co-sponsorship by the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine.