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• 18 January: Climate Action in Higher Education: Beyond Hope and Fear - Dr Jo Lindsay Walton (Sussex Humanities Lab)
• 25 April: - Nandita Kumar (DAAD artist-in-residence, Berlin)
• 5 May: Plants, People and Power, an afternoon of talks and conversation focused on the politics and pleasure of plants. 
• 28 June: Limits of Knowability, Dr Joshua Wodak (Western Sydney University) 

• 19 January: Chronicle/Coracle, Jade Montserrat. Online, 5.30pm-7pm.
• 23 February: Writing Place, Belonging and Disability - Polly Atkin. Online, 5:00pm.
• 26 October: Drivers and trajectories of vulnerability to drought in Mozambique, 1500-present - Dr Matthew Hannaford (University of Lincoln). Organised by the Hazard, Risk and Disaster (HRD) Research Group.

• 13 January: Ecocritical Perspectives on Contemporary Georgic Literature - Professor Terry Gifford (黑料正能量). Online event, 6.00pm-7.30pm
• 17 February: In Conversation with Tjawangwa Dema. Online event, 6.00pm-6.45pm
• 17 March: Bordering, Outsiding and Other(world)ing in the Anthropocene - Dr Gaia Giuliani (University of Coimbra, Portugal). Co-hosted with Hazards, Risks and Disaster Research Group. Online event, 3.00pm-5.00pm
• 17 March: Survey, Seed and Monitor: From Seed-Bombing to Remote Sensing - Professor Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton, UK, and Academy of Performing Arts, Prague). Online event, 5.30pm-6.30pm
• 21 April: In Conversation with Zakiya Mckenzie (University of Exeter, Caribbean Literary Heritage Project, and former Ujima Radio Green and Black Ambassador and Forestry England Writer in Residence 2019). Online event, 6.00pm-7.00pm.
• 5 May:   - British-Finnish artist, composer and performer Hanna Tuulikki explores mimesis as a practice of becoming-with on a damaged planet. Online event, 6.00pm-7.00pm.
• 27 October: Political stability after disasters: Lessons from earthquake management in colonial South Asia - Dr Dan Haines, (University of Bristol). Co-hosted with Hazards, Risks and Disaster Research Group. Online event, 3:00pm-5:00pm.
• 3 November: Two talks on the role of art and education in environmental action in India – 'Compound Tera - Plastic Ka Mela', Sharmila Samant and Ben Parry, (Compound 13); 'Jol-a-Bhumir Golpo O Katha - Stories of the Wetland', Nobina Gupta and Saptarshi Mitra, (Disappearing Dialogues). Co-hosted with eARTh: Art, Education, Environment. Online event, 2.00pm-4.00pm. 
• 24 November: Giving the Ocean its Voice: The Changing Song of the Humpbacked Whale - Alex South, (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and University of St Andrews). Co-hosted with the Intercultural Communication through Practice Research Group. Online event, 6:00pm-7:30pm.
• 8 December: Political Grounds: Geographies of Soil and Earth in the Japanese Empire and the Korean Peninsula - Dr Robert Winstanley-Chesters, (York St John University). Online and in-person event, 5.30pm-7.00pm.

Affiliated events

• 8 - 11 April:  - in association with Bath Spa's Intercultural Communication through Practice Research Group. Online event.
• 10 - 24 May:  - a free online conference in association with the Bath School of Art MA Curatorial Practice, bringing together 27 contributors from all over the world to explore hope through alternatives. Online conference.
• 24 June:  - in association with the launch of the Centre for Mental Health, Creativity and Wellbeing, an online conversation about creativity, mental health and wellbeing with Alice Tarbuck and Sophie Robinson.

• 15 January - Evelyn Araluen Corr and Jonathan Dunk: Indigenous literature, poetics and decolonisation
• 12 February - Giovanna Gioli: The Semiotics of Rubble
• 7 May - Robert Winstanley-Chesters and Nicholas Leof Ahlmark: North Korean Ghost Ships
• 13 May - Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak: Arboreal Entanglements: Botanic Imagination in Ecopoetry by Children
• 14 October - Claire Ratinon: The Pleasures and Politics of Growing Food
• 28 October - Conor Murphy: Reconstructing and re-evaluating historical droughts and impacts in the British and Irish Isles
• 18 November - Dr Dylan McGarry: Empatheatre: A theatre-based methodology for collaborative, woven, transgressive and 'de-academised' research in South Africa
• 16 December - Professor Sian Sullivan: The Music Returns to Kai-as - a film by the Future Pasts project

• 16 January - Margarita Díaz-Andreu: .
• 13 March - John Wylie: The Common Line: Landscape Politics, Creative Practice and Digital Geographies
• 27 March - Melissa Harrison reading and discussing her new novel, All Among the Barley
• 10 April - Clara Mancini: .
• 8 May - Professor Owain Jones: Toxic dwellings? The ecocides of globalised consumer society
• 17 June - Linda Tucker and Jason Turner: How western science and sacred science converge to save a species
• 16 October - Samantha Walton: Is Nature Healing? Exploring the History and Future of the 'Nature Cure'
• 29 October - Prerna Singh Bindra: The Fight for India's Wildlife
• 30 October - Glenna Batson: Human Origami: The Folding Continuum of Human-Environmental Life (workshop and talk)
• 13 November - Rosalind Crisp: DIRt (Dance In Regional disaster zones)
• 11 December - Michelle Bastian: .

• 17 January - Tim Dee: .
• 26 January - Marie Claire Lavabre: .
• 21 February - Susana Carvalho and Rene Bobe Quinteros: A new stand on primate adaptations to complex environments and implications for early human evolution 
• 14 March - Simon James: .
• 21 March - Tim Ingold: .
• 18 April - Performing Environments Forum:
  
  • Thomas Kampe: .
  • Ellie Nixon: .
  • Tiago Gambogi: .
• 16 May - Erin Kavanagh and Iain Biggs: .
• 17 October - Linda Williams: The Problem with Posthumanism
• 29 October - Glenn Albrecht and Vic McEwan: .
• 14 November - Mike Hannis and Sian Sullivan: Mining the Skeleton Coast: Nature, Capital and History
• 12 December - Stefan Skrimshire: .

• February 15 - Julian Wolfreys, .
• March 15 - Christoph Schwitzer (Bristol Zoo),  The Role of Zoos in Conservation (with Biology and Psychology)
• April 12 - Arran Stibbe, Ecolinguistics and the Search for New Stories to Live by
• May 10 - Dolly Jorgensen, .
• May 17 -  David Rothenberg, Bird Whale Bug: Why Make Music with Nature?  Lecture with performance (with Intercultural Communication through Practice Research Group)
• May 24 - Joni Adamson, Current international developments in the environmental humanities
• Oct. 18 - Merle Patchett, .
• Nov. 15 - Lila Matsomoto, Poetic Technologies: Exploring Hebridean renewable energy production through poetry- sculpture collaboration (with Intercultural Communication through Practice Research Group)
• Dec. 13 - Mike Hannis, .

• 5 October - Professor Kate Rigby: Professorial Lecture - Infernal Ecologies: Literature, ethics, and fire 'down under'

 was a two-day Environmental Humanities conference that took place on the 7 and 8 June 2018, at the Create Centre, Bristol.

It was a collaboration between the of the University of Bristol and 黑料正能量.

The  Summer School provides an opportunity for talented university students from around the Commonwealth to come together for an exciting week of expert lectures, group work, field trips, skills development and social events.

The 2017 Summer School was held at 黑料正能量 from 5 - 13 August. It explored interrelationships between humans and other living beings, and between cultural practices and environmental problems 鈥� and looked at how these can be examined through different academic disciplines and creative arts. 黑料正能量 is a world leader in research and teaching in these areas.

The first Environmental Humanities Postgraduate Forum, Environmental Humanities: Perspectives in Practice, took place on 14 July 2017. It was a student-led event, providing an opportunity for presentations on work-in-progress, to which staff were warmly invited.

Speakers included:

• Patricia Brien: Stroudwater Scarlet cloth - Exploring the dynamic human & non-human relations in site-specific fabric 鈥� boundless Kin(g)doms that matter
  
• Aiyana Rosen: Human-Animal Relations in the German Dairy Industry - A genealogical analysis
• Ben Crushcov: a talk on writing the script for a feature film about a group of Greenpeace protestors who were arrested in the Arctic in 2013.
• Lydia Halcrow: Mapping place through the visual arts: a contemporary approach to landscape.
• Charlotte Shipperley: 鈥淔looding the Bathtub: The Politics of Invisibility and Community Resilience in Behn Zeitlin鈥檚 Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)鈥�.
• Ruth Olden, PhD: Lost world of the nearby: Minimal ethics on Govan Graving Docks
• Laura Denning: Primordial; Hydrofeminism and Deep Listening

As part of the British Academy鈥檚 in 2016, Bath Spa presented three public engagement events concerning peoples鈥� hopes and fears in relation to environmental change.

Changing Landscapes, Rising Waters: Kate Rigby, Owain Jones and Sam Walton presented a series of short talks and film screenings arising from their current research projects, all of which concerned peoples relationships with the watery worlds of ocean, estuaries and rivers during a time of rapid climatic and environmental change.

Environmental Literature Reading and Discussion: Three of Bath Spa鈥檚 creative writers, Stephen Moss, Maggie Gee, and Samantha Walton, read from their work and discussed how it explores the hopes and fears that are inextricably entangled with the living landscapes we inhabit at a time of rapid environmental change and biodiversity loss.

鈥淕obaith ac ofn; Dwy sgriniad / Hope and fear: two screenings鈥�: A screening of two short films - Timeline and Y Gors - that explored extreme weather in West Wales, challenging the idea that climate change only happens in far-flung places or in the future. 

The Inaugural Symposium for the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities was held 15-16 December 2016 at 黑料正能量.

Based around the title, The Environmental Humanities: Doing Interdisciplinarity with Depth, the symposium sought to explore the challenges involved in doing interdisciplinarity well and 'at depth' across the Environmental Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and to consider the impediments and opportunities that might line our potential pathways to impact.

Schedule

Follow the links to view videos of the presentations.

15 December 2016

5.15 鈥� 7.00pm: Opening plenary: Bridging the Great Divide

• Richard Kerridge (Chair)
• Mike Hulme (King鈥檚 College, London)
• Poul Holm (Trinity University, Dublin)
• Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University and Goldsmiths College, London)
• With Maggie Gee (黑料正能量)

7.00 鈥� 8.00pm: Official launch by Vice-Provost John Strachan

16 December 2016

9.00 鈥� 10.30am: Onto-epistemologies and ethics 鈥� Chair, Paul Reid-Bowen

• Termites, mud daubers and their earths: a multispecies approach to fertility and power in West Africa 鈥� James Fairhead (University of Sussex)
•  鈥� Graham Harvey (Open University)
•  鈥� Mike Hannis and Sian Sullivan (黑料正能量)

10.50am 鈥� 12.20pm: Spatio-temporalities 鈥� Chair, Rebecca Schaaf

• 鈥� Axel Goodbody (University of Bath)
• 鈥� David Farrier (Edinburgh University)
•  鈥� Owain Jones (黑料正能量)

1.20 鈥� 2.50pm: Inter-species connectivities 鈥� Chair, Stephen Moss

•  鈥� Michael Northcott (Edinburgh University)
• Avian-accessories as archives: or, what do animals teach us about research practices? 鈥� Merle Patchet (University of Bristol)
•  鈥� Isis Brook (Writtle College)
•  鈥� Richard Kerridge (黑料正能量)

2.50 鈥� 4.20pm: NaturalCultural calamities 鈥� Chair, James Jeffers

•  鈥� Greg Bankoff (University of Hull)
•  鈥� Steven Hartman (Mid-Sweden University)
•  鈥� David Higgins (English and Environmental Humanities, Leeds University)
•  鈥� Rich Johnson and Esther Edwards (黑料正能量)

4.40 鈥� 6.20pm: Eco-poetries and ecopoetics 鈥� Chair, Terry Gifford

•  鈥� Emily Brady (Edinburgh University)
•  鈥� Graham Huggan and Sarah Yoho (Leeds University)
• 鈥� Harriet Tarlo (Sheffield Hallam University)

6.20 鈥� 7.00pm: Concluding discussion