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Research Seminar Series: Workshop on the Anthropocene with David Farrier (Edinburgh)

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 22:03:09 GMT

1pm - 2pm, Thu, 02 May '19

Location: H3.55

David Farrier, University of Edinburgh, will lead a workshop on the anthropocene. Please email Jonathan Schroeder to sign up.

Research Seminar Series: David Farrier (Edinburgh), “Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils”

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 22:00:00 GMT

3pm - 4pm, Thu, 02 May '19

Location: OC1.04

David Farrier will deliver a talk, "Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils." Farrier is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent books consider the new reality of the Anthropocene. Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction (Minnesota, 2019) is a study of contemporary environmental poetry, and Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (4th Estate/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020), written for a general readership, explores what traces of present societies will persist in the deep future. He is particularly interested in how literature, including poetry, responds to the challenges of the Anthropocene. Farrier is also the author of Postcolonial Asylum (Liverpool, 2011) and Unsettled Narratives (Routledge, 2007) and has published widely in the fields of ecocriticism and postcolonial studies.

WORDSWORTH READING GROUP with PETER LARKIN

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:29:00 GMT

The Wordsworth Reading Group will hold four meetings in the latter half of Term 3 (2018) to read and discuss Wordsworth's poems "The Ruined Cottage" and The Prelude (1805 version), along with some supplementary texts. Poet, critic and former ��TV University librarian Peter Larkin will join us for three of these meetings. If you are interested in joining the group, please come to our first meeting Thursday 7 June from 4 to 5:30pm in G.01, Millburn House (see announcement detail for readings). Also please send an email to Jonathan Skinner indicating your interest: J.E.Skinner@warwick.ac.uk

UNCOMMON SOLIDARITIES: WRITING, LANDSCAPE, RESISTANCE 9-10 MAY

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:43:05 GMT

WORKSHOP, SEMINAR, and PERFORMANCE

with STEPHEN COLLIS (Professor, Simon Fraser University)
and PATRICK BARRON (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston)
9-10 May 2018

Over the course of this special, two-day event, Professors Stephen Collis and Patrick Barron will present creative and critical work around landscapes of the Anthropocene—threatened, enclosed, abandoned, occupied, reclaimed, irrevocably humanized more-than-human commons—and lead discussions about the new kinds of solidarity and resources called forth in and through environmental writing in a time of accelerated climate change and intensified pressure on the planetary commons.

Sponsored by the Critical Environments research group and by the ��TV Writing Program in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of ��TV

"The Plight of Climate Refugees: Rising Seas, Melting Ice, and Inadequate Legal Protections"

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:25:37 GMT

Professor Randall Abate (Florida Agricultural and Medical University College of Law, Orlando)

Friday 14th October, 4pm
Location: S0.19

Sponsored by Politics and International Studies (PAIS)

Jan 19: Critical Environments Brown Bag Jamming Session

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:19:59 GMT

Critical Environments Brown Bag Jamming Session 19th January 2016
Theme: Critical Environments - New Interdisciplinary Directions in Teaching

You are cordially invited by Chris Maughan and Julie Hudson to an informal (bring your lunch) Critical Environments (CE) networking session in which (if so inclined) you are welcome to "jam" about your Eco-critical interests and activities with a view to developing and sharing ideas.

David Beck has kindly agreed to join us as lead "jammer" this month. David is Director of UG Studies and Director of Student Experience for joint (interdisciplinary) degrees in Global Sustainable Development. These exciting degrees encompass everything from economics to the sciences to theatre and beyond.........

Lots of food for thought......

When: January 19th 2016, from 12:30 to 13:30.

Where: H542

Jan 14: PG Workshop with Axel Goodbody

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:44:53 GMT

Thursday 14 January, 10am-12pm

Postgraduate Workshop on representations of climate change and climate scepticism (with Axel Goodbody, University of Bath)

This workshop will discuss discourses on climate change in an intercultural perspective, including the surprising similarities between some of the arguments of climate activists and sceptics, and will give research students from a variety of disciplines the opportunity to present and discuss their work on related topics.

Wolfson Research Exchange (Millennium Library, 3rd floor, Library Road, University of ��TV). Contact: Hanna Schumacher, H.E.Schumacher@warwick.ac.uk.

Jan 13: Axel Goodbody seminar

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:43:28 GMT

Wednesday 13 January, 4-6pm - Axel Goodbody (University of Bath), H2.02 Humanities

Telling the Story of Climate Change: Narrative Strategy and the Challenge of the Anthropocene

How does education and research figure in the UN Climate Agreement?

Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:21:18 GMT

The Paris Agreement that was finalised on December 12th has had a mixed reception. For some it is an historic document that will keep global warming in check. For others it will deliver too little too late. Without repeating all of the arguments here this post is intended to just focus on what it says about education and research. Here there is some potential.

Dec 4: Critical Environments Brown Bag Jamming Session

Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:19:17 GMT

You are cordially invited by Chris Maugham and Julie Hudson to an informal Critical Environments (CE) networking session in which (if so inclined) you are welcome to "jam" about your Eco-critical interests and activities with a view to developing and sharing ideas. Friday December 4th at 12:30; Julie (eco-theatre) and Chris (sustainable allotments) will be the kick-off jammers at this first session.