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Rebecca Walker: The Sense of Fracture

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…United College17:00 PM to 18:30 PM

CIMS Institute Lecture Series: Professor Mihaela Mihai

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…United College16:00 PM to 17:00 PM

Social Anthropology Careers

Come along to meet anthropology alumni and find out how their degree has affected their employment path and working livesUnited College18:00 PM to 19:00 PM

Mapping Participation

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.…United College13:00 PM to 14:00 PM

CEE Artist-in-Residence: An Introduction to Peter Iain Campbell

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…United College13:00 PM to 14:00 PM

‘Où es-tu ma voix lointaine?: The Anxiety of Translating Andrée Chedid’

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.United College13:00 PM to 14:00 PM

Energy Cafe: Decarbonising Energy Systems

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…United College13:00 PM to 14:00 PM

Building Collaboration from the Ground Up: Centre for Sustainable Curating and Synthetic Collective

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…United College14:00 PM to 16:00 PM

Vitreous Visions: Histories of Glass as a Media Objects

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…United College14:00 PM to 16:00 PM

BFRB U & I: Collaboration, Charity and the Struggle for Care

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…United College14:00 PM to 16:00 PM

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