Dr Rebecca Walker (TCD) in conversation with Dr Carlotta Moro (Exeter). Rebecca Walker’s recent monograph, ‘The Sense of Fracture in Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante’ explores the work of two of Italy’s major female writers whose literary representations of fractured female bodies and identities open up wider debates about selfhood, corporeality, and the ethics of…
Professor Mihaela Mihai (Chair of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh) will talk to us about ‘Resonant Eco-grief and the Challenge of “Staying with the Trouble” ‘. Her talk offers a conceptualisation of eco-grief as a form of resonance and argues for the importance of rituals in recognising and valorising eco-grief for ecological action when the…
Come along to meet anthropology alumni and find out how their degree has affected their employment path and working lives
Public engagement is central to ensuring that global energy transitions are realised in an effective and just manner. Yet, approaches to participation often reflect particular – Western – assumptions about what good, or meaningful, participation around energy, climate change and net zero transitions looks like. This may obscure other traditional forms of participation and democracy.…
The Centre for Energy Ethics is thrilled to welcome our new AiR, Peter Iain Campbell. In this event, Iain will provide an insight into the photography/film work he intends to undertake over the course of the next two years as he navigates his way around the Energy Industry in the North Sea. Sharing new work…
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Irish at University College Cork, and an award-winning poet from Ireland who writes exclusively in the Irish language. In this research paper, she will be discussing her own translations from the French of Andrée Chedid, which were published in 2019.
Speaker Dr Robert Price. Research Fellow, St Andrews University School of Chemistry Abstract Decarbonisation of domestic and industrial energy systems is imperative to minimise our dependence on fossil fuel usage and, consequently, reduce the impacts of climate change associated with use of these resources. Deployment and integration of electrochemical energy conversion systems, including fuel cells…
This talk provides an introduction to two projects that have formed the core of my research over the past decade: the Synthetic Collective and the Centre for Sustainable Curating. The Synthetic Collective is an art-science collaboration focused on tracking, characterizing, and visualizing plastic pollution in the Great Lakes Watershed. This region of North America contains…
This paper is part of a project that I am developing on the understudied history of glass as a media material. The project connects nineteenth-century media practices to contemporary film, television, and digital media cultures and links to debates in the history of science, race, class, and digital cultures. I examine materiality of glass (such…
In this paper I describe ongoing collaborations with my research community and our recent work developing a charitable organisation. These efforts emerge from several years of ethnographic research among those living with compulsive hair pulling (trichotillomania), skin picking (dermatillomania) and other body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) in Britain and the United States. Embracing a vulnerable autoethnographic…