This event is part of the Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series.
Speakers: Dr Hannah Simpson (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 2 May 2023, 12.30pm-1.30pm
All are welcome.
When thinking about climate change, our collective consciousness lacks any ready imaginative sense of the inconceivable, seemingly unrepresentable spectra of ecological forces that extend beyond or below our human-centric scale. Our anthropocene moment offers not just an opportunity but a mandate to generate new images, new scales, through performance. In this talk, we explore some of the efforts to wrestle with innovative stage images and scale that theatre-makers have produced in their creative endeavours to capture and convey the climate crisis, from Carol Ann Duffy’s version of Everyman to Ibsen and Beckett to contemporary playwrights Tanya Ronder and Marek Horn. We offer some models and theoretical approaches that might be productive in thinking about theatre’s representations of climate change, and of the science of climate change.
As always, if anyone would like to offer a lunchtime talk, film, reading, musical performance, conference proposal, or anything else relevant to the environmental humanities, please email envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk or fiona.stafford@some.ox.ac.uk. We would also welcome expressions of interest from potential DPhil students planning to work on Environmental Humanities topics.
For more details about the Lunchtime Seminars please follow the link.
Environmental Humanities, TORCH Programmes
