School of Geography and Sustainable Development Spring Lecture Telling different stories, telling stories differently

Geographies of Solidarities, Societies, Inequalities and Possibilities (GOSSIP) invites you to a discussion about stories. This round table will hear from those who have both challenged the dominant political narratives about war, nature, hope and identity, and sought to do so by transgressing the usual forms of academic writing and communication.

Our speakers are:

• Roxani Krystalli from the School of International Relations who has worked at the intersection of gender and peace-building as an academic researcher and humanitarian practitioner. Her interests include love and loss, the politics of nature and place, narrative and storytelling in the study of politics, and care, beauty and joy in the shadow of war and peace.
• Sage Brice, an artist-geographer at Durham University, who uses graphic and participatory methods to interrogate the politics of nature, ecology and social difference. Her research asks how queer-trans readings of bodily plasticity, indeterminacy and change can help to address the uncertainties of accelerated planetary change.
• Jo Sharp, a member of the GOSSIP research group, who has long been interested in the way geographers encounter different ways of knowing the world. More recently she has turned to the political potential of fictional writing, storytelling and imagination.

This talk is free to attend and open to all but please book your ticket or tickets.

Image credit: Sage Brice and Scarlet Hall