Environmental Humanities Futures: Networking and Showcase Event
- Date
- Wednesday 26 April 2023, 15:15
- Location
- Room 1.06, 20 Lyddon Terrace
As environmental humanities research continues to develop at Leeds, across new disciplines and involving new colleagues and collaborators, we are keen to explore what connections we might make across our community. The Leeds Arts & Humanities Research Institute (LAHRI) is hosting Environmental Humanities Futures to bring together researchers from across and beyond the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures who are engaging with – or have ambitions to engage with – environmental and ecological perspectives, themes, methods and topics in their work. Whilst this event is focussed on arts and humanities research, we welcome attendees from across the University and hope to stimulate new connections within and beyond the arts and humanities. Please do come along if you are keen to know more about environmental arts and humanities research at Leeds.
The event will function as both a showcase and networking opportunity, and will feature five-minute lightning talks from seven researchers working in different areas of the environmental humanities. The second half of the event then moves to a highly interactive networking session, with facilitated discussion on the current trajectory of environmental humanities research, opportunities for collaboration, and how we can enable better connection across disciplines and support the flourishing community of environmental humanities researchers at Leeds.
Programme
Tea, Coffee and Cake (3.15pm)
Current Work in Environmental Humanities: 5-minute Lightning Talks (3.30)
- Clare Richardson-Barlow (Languages, Cultures & Societies), "Just Energy Transitions in the Asia-Pacific"
- Joshua Cohen (POLIS/Earth and Environment), "Art, Critical Political Ecology and Landscape Restoration"
- Elspeth Mitchell (Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies), "Mycorrhizal Encounters"
- Emma Trott (English), "'Plant-thinking' in Contemporary Poetry"
- Ingo Cornils (Languages, Cultures & Societies), "Hoping against Hope: German Climate Fiction"
- Benjamin Skinner (Performance & Cultural Industries), "Transcorporeal Environmental Thinking"
- Iona McCleery (History), "Turtles, Oysters & Elephants: The Neglected Natural History of West Africa (15th-16th centuries)"
Facilitated Discussions (4.15pm)
- How is environmental humanities research changing?
- What are the opportunities for environmental humanities researchers at Leeds to respond to the ecological and climate crises?
- How can we support the development of environmental humanities research and researchers?
Wrap-up and Next Steps (4.50pm)
Close (5pm)