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Potential Collaborations (Morning session) Potential Collaborations (Morning session)
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 10:00 AM

Please come along to discuss any potential collaborations with Professor Lichy

Putting the ‘Social’ Back in Society Putting the ‘Social’ Back in Society
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 11:00 AM

The presentation provides a synopsis of 3 current research projects that examine efforts to nudge consumers towards a more sustainable lifestyle enabled by digital technologies designed to drive environmentally conscious consumer behaviour (ECCB). 

Visual Data Collection and Analysis Visual Data Collection and Analysis
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 1:00 PM

The presentation introduces a novel approach to collecting and analysing visual data, for the purpose of publishing research papers or chapters. It is aimed at scholars who are considering using visual data as a stand-alone unit of analysis or as part of a mixed methods approach.

Potential Collaborations (Afternoon session) Potential Collaborations (Afternoon session)
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 2:00 PM

Please come along to discuss any potential collaborations with Professor Lichy

Post-work Ecologies: From ‘green jobs’ to ecological idleness Post-work Ecologies: From ‘green jobs’ to ecological idleness
Thursday, June 8, 2023, 10:00 AM

"Not just human life, but earthly life, is at stake in the contestation of work” (Daggett 2019: 196)

What should ‘work’ look like on a burning planet? Recent calls for ‘green jobs’ and a ‘green new deal’ suggest that the global crises of underemployment and ecological collapse can be addressed concurrently. Such calls have been critiqued from labourist perspectives for failing to transform exploitative modes of production and generate sufficient ‘decent work’. 

Labour in the Green Transition Labour in the Green Transition
Thursday, June 8, 2023, 4:00 PM

Join the conversation, organised by the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP), between Professor Ariel Salleh (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) and Professor Matthew Huber (Syracuse University, USA) as Distinguished Visiting Scholars of the Centre. 

 

Peopleless Houses for Houseless People Peopleless Houses for Houseless People
Saturday, June 10, 2023, 3:30 PM

This workshop series will examine U.S. federal policy that allows for the use and transfer of surplus federal properties to assist those experiencing homelessness, and we will be co-developing some public resources together through these workshops. 

Blurring the Boundaries of Religious Dissent: A New Approach to Heresy in Premodern Europe Blurring the Boundaries of Religious Dissent: A New Approach to Heresy in Premodern Europe
Monday, June 12, 2023, 9:30 AM

This workshop brings together an international group of scholars who are working to establish a new framework for the study of religious dissent in premodern Europe. Focusing on the period between the eleventh and the sixteenth century and looking into a variety of religious contexts, it will interrogate the traditional assumption that dissent is automatically heterodox in nature. 

Book Panel -- A World Without Hunger -- Writing New Histories of Geography Book Panel -- A World Without Hunger -- Writing New Histories of Geography
Monday, June 12, 2023, 5:15 PM

A World Without Hunger: Josué de Castro and the History of Geography (Liverpool, 2022) by IHSS Fellow Dr Archie Davies (QMUL), tells an alternative history of twentieth-century geographical thought, starting from the absorbing life and work of a radical Brazilian intellectual.

 

The Future of Plants: Beyond Earth The Future of Plants: Beyond Earth
Thursday, June 15, 2023, 3:00 PM

What does it mean that plants are growing in outer space? In this talk, geographer Franklin Ginn will consider the past, present and future of plants beyond Earth-bound ecologies. Artist Katy Connor will reflect on her work, HydroPoetics. Both speakers will review the role of plants in space by drawing on their experience of building a garden room within The Martian House, a simulated house for dwelling on Mars.

Non-Human Turn in Law Non-Human Turn in Law
Monday, June 19, 2023, 9:00 AM

A two-day international colloquium addressing critical and interdisciplinary approaches to legal theory engaged in decentring the human

Stories without Borders Stories without Borders
Friday, June 23, 2023, 6:00 PM

Screening of short films from the "Protracted Displacement Economies" Research Project followed by a discussion.

Peopleless Houses for Houseless People Peopleless Houses for Houseless People
Saturday, June 24, 2023, 4:30 PM

This workshop series will examine U.S. federal policy that allows for the use and transfer of surplus federal properties to assist those experiencing homelessness, and we will be co-developing some public resources together through these workshops. 

Pathogen of War: An Immersive Experience Exploring a Mysterious Killer Born of War Pathogen of War: An Immersive Experience Exploring a Mysterious Killer Born of War
Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 2:00 PM

Shubbak Festival and Battersea Arts Centre present the preview of the interactive installation "Pathogen of War: An Immersive Experience Exploring a Mysterious Killer Born of War".

Research Cluster on Time and Temporalities Inaugural Event Research Cluster on Time and Temporalities Inaugural Event
Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 2:00 PM

The reading group discussion, the workshop and the lecture by brilliant scholars with research interest in time and temporality. 

 

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