The Environmental Humanities Research Hub's MT2024 Term Card has been released
The Environmental Humanities Research Hub's MT 2024 Term Card has been released:
Environmental Humanities Michaelmas Card Trinity Term 2024
TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub
Michaelmas Term 2024 Calendar
Dr. Saskia Cornes (Duke University)
‘Making Soils Visible: Being with Muck and Memory’
Tuesday October 22, 5:00-7:00pm, TORCH Third Floor Seminar Room
Dr. Cornes is the Program Director of the Duke Campus Farm. Her teaching and research work together to rethink our relationship to food, and to the land and people that grow it. N.B. This will be a hybrid event with the University of Toronto. Dr. Cornes will present online and an Oxford-based researcher will offer comments in person. Wine and salty snacks will be provided.
Dr. Noreen Masud (University of Bristol)
Thursday November 7, 12:00-2:00pm, Blackwell's Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street
Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Masud about her recent book, A Flat Place, which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Jhalak Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize.
Right Here, Right Now: Climate Change in Brazil
Tuesday November 19, 12:00-1:30pm, TORCH Third Floor Seminar Room
Please join us for a roundtable conversation about this year's flooding in Brazil and how climate change is affecting the country. Panelists: Dr. Alice Evatt (Oxford Net Zero, Environmental Change Institute), Dr. Neil Hart (Physical Geography), Dr. Anthony Calacino (Climate Vulnerability Project), Dr. Ana Paula Khoury (Architecture and Urbanism, Universidade São Judas), Juliana Moura Bueno (Google).
Underworlds / Underwater
Thursday December 5, 12:00-1:30pm, TORCH Third Floor Seminar Room
A panel of postgraduate and early career researchers in Art, Archaeology and Music will share research and lead an informal discussion about how working with oceans, rivers and other waterways shapes their disciplines and academic approaches to the environment.
The Hub is running a writing group for PGRs working on environmental topics on Friday mornings (9am-12pm) in odd weeks in the Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building. Come to get some work done and meet fellow researchers in other departments.
All welcome! If you have any queries or would like to be added to the Hub mailing list, please email envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk. For more programming information, please visit the events tab on our website.
