Please come along to discuss any potential collaborations with Professor Lichy
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).
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.
"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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A two-day international colloquium addressing critical and interdisciplinary approaches to legal theory engaged in decentring the human
Screening of short films from the "Protracted Displacement Economies" Research Project followed by a discussion.
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".
The reading group discussion, the workshop and the lecture by brilliant scholars with research interest in time and temporality.
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