Guest lecture: Animals as Labourers? Marx, Work and Nonhumans
The Institute of Geography invites you to a talk ‘Animals as Labourers? Marx, Work and Nonhumans’ by Dr. Dinesh Wadiwel, University of Sydney Date and time: Friday, 3rd February 2017; …
‘Voicing the land’ A Free Public Lecture by Julian Wolfreys
The paper will address the work of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, from a mostly phenomenological perspective, opening to discuss the writing of poetry itself, from the ‘other …
‘Affect in the Anthropocene: “What is Missing?”’, a lecture by Dr Jennifer Ladino (University of Idaho)
In an era of overwhelming species extinction and environmental degradation, environmental humanities scholars must consider how to represent, cope with, and perhaps deploy loss. This lecture will examine affects associated …
Conference on “Connecting with a low-carbon future – the challenges for the arts and humanities”
Save the dates – call for papers – register – Conference on “Connecting with a low-carbon future – the challenges for the arts and humanities” Contact us: lawandphilosophy@stir.ac.uk Overview and …
Speculative Lunch: Nature and Wellbeing
The theme for this speculative lunch is the relationship between nature and wellbeing. Scholars and practitioners are invited to this informal meeting, which aims to discuss disciplinary specific understandings of …
CFP: The Memory of Trees
An interdisciplinary, one-day conference on the cultural representation, study and conservation of trees and woodlands. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford), author of The Long, …
Legend of the Necessary Dreamer
Maria Fusco will make a performative reading and discuss her new book Legend of the Necessary Dreamer. The book is a novella, a prose essay and a real-time excavation of …
In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language
Our understanding of the world around us has been a constantly-shifting thing. We have always sought to explain natural phenomena we can’t understand and to use myth, ritual and religion …
Professor Aaron Gross, The Question of the Animal and Religion
Drawing from a recent book project, this presentation argues for a reconfiguration of the category of the animal in the study of culture and religion. Foundational theorists in the human …
