A roundtable discussion consider future landscapes in the context of food, farming and conservation.
People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green & Pleasant Land is a lecture series convened by the University of Oxford's National Trust Partnership, which brings together experts and commentators from a range of institutions, professions and academic disciplines to explore people's engagement with and impact upon land and landscape in the past, present and future. The National Trust cares for 248,000 hectares of open space across England, Wales and Northern Ireland; landscapes which hold the voices and heritage of millions of people and track the dramatic social changes that occurred across our nations' past. In the year when Manchester remembers the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the National Trust's 2019 People’s Landscapes programme is drawing out the stories of the places where people joined to challenge the social order and where they demonstrated the power of a group of people standing together in a shared place. Throughout this year the National Trust is asking people to look again, to see beyond the green and pleasant land, and to find the radical histories that lie, often hidden, beneath their feet. At the fourth and final event in the series, Future Landscapes, panellists consider future landscapes in the context of food, farming and conservation, with panellists considering what we may want vs. what we will need from our landscapes in a post-Brexit Britain and beyond.
Speakers: Alice Purkiss | National Trust Partnership Lead | University of Oxford (Welcome)
Helen Antrobus | National Public Programme Curator | National Trust (Introduction)
Dr Anita Weatherby | Research Programme Manager | National Trust (Chair)
Sue Cornwell | Head of Public Benefit & Nature | National Trust
Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland | Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science | University of Oxford
Phil Jarvis | Environment Forum Chair | National Farmers' Union
Dr Prue Addison | Conservation Strategy Director | Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxford Wildlife Trust
For more information about the People’s Landscapes Lecture Series and the National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please visit: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership
Environmental Humanities, TORCH Programmes
