Thursday 5 December 2024, 12 midday - 1.30pm
Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
All welcome.
A panel of postgraduate and early career researchers in Art, Archaeology, Modern Languages and Oceanography 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.
Panellists:
Elly Walters: Elly is a Stipendiary Lecturer in French at Somerville College. She holds an MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (University of Oxford) and a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (University of Cambridge). She has also studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, France. Elly’s doctoral project explored points of encounter between water and experience in twenty-first-century women’s writing in French. Her thesis brought together the work of Marie Darrieussecq, Nathacha Appanah, Amélie Nothomb, and Fatou Diome to analyse the role of water in literary representations of grief and trauma, doing so in conversation with posthuman and decolonial feminisms.
Jen DeNike (Ruskin School of Art): Jen received her MFA from Bard College and was, most recently, an invited lecturer at Glasgow School of Art and Stanford University. She has given visiting artist lectures at NYU, Columbia, Tyler University, Brown University, School of Visual Arts, and Cal Arts. Her moving image work negotiates a distinctly feminine perspective on gender roles. A director of choreographed movements, she evokes cinematic archetypes and aesthetic cannons, building a gravity of repetitive actions, forming a psychogeography of both real and imagined utopias that interchangeably function as containers of desire and places of intervention. Water appears frequently in her work as an elemental symbolic source - a place of entry – a feminist snap - a queer device -for the body, eliciting new perimeters of belonging or not belonging.
Dr Dimitrios Karampas (School of Archaeology): Dr Dimitrios Karampas is a maritime archaeologist who obtained his PhD/DPhil in Classical archaeology from the University of Oxford. Dimitrios’ thesis was mainly focused on the maritime cultural landscape of Hellenistic and Imperial Crete, Greece. He has worked on several archaeological projects in Greece, the Black Sea, and the UK, both on land and underwater. His main interests focus on Mediterranean maritime history and archaeology, including the study of ancient shipwrecks and ports.
Charlotte Maris (Department of Earth Sciences): Charlotte is a DPhil student within the NERC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) at the Department of Earth Sciences. Her research focuses on using computational model simulations to investigate the mechanisms driving ocean circulation in the Arctic. Specifically, she studies how water entering the Arctic is modified at the surface through interactions with the atmosphere and sea ice, and how these processes may evolve in response to future climate-induced warming and freshening. Through this work, Charlotte aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the Arctic's role in global ocean circulation under changing climate conditions.
Environmental Humanities, TORCH Hubs
