‘Island Thinking‘ panel discussion, featuring Senior Global Fellow, Professor Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin), Professor Karen Brown (Art History), Dr Niall Sreenan (Comp. Lit) and Professor Dan Clayton (Geography and Sustainable Development).
What is ‘island thinking’? and why does it matter in light of climate change? How can we learn from interdisciplinary conversations about the environment?
4pm, Friday November 1
Arts Lecture Theatre
Professor Mihaela Mihai (Chair of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh) guest lecture on Resonant Eco-grief and the Challenge of “Staying with the Trouble”.
4pm, Friday November 22
Room 30, UCO
The talk offered 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 time for hope has run out.

Seminar series, semester 2 2023- 2024
Global Fellow Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA): Prosthetic Performances: Technologies of the Black Mutative Body
4-6pm, Tuesday February 20, 2024
Seminar room 1, Younger Hall
CIMS Seminars in the Environmental Humanities
Dr Avishek Parui (IIT Madras): ‘Memory, Narrative, and Ecology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’
4-6pm, Thursday February 22, 2024.
Seminar room 1, Younger Hall
Professor Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (Edinburgh): ‘Attending to the local in a global emergency: translation as a lens on climate crisis’
Seminar room 2, Younger Hall
1-2 pm, Friday, March 15, 2024
Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College): ‘The Grapes of Desire: Fascist Agricultural Projects in Libya’
Seminar room 1, Younger Hall
4-6 pm, Tuesday March 19, 2024.
Professor Tim Baker (Aberdeen) ‘Gleaning, Fragmentation, and Environmental Writing’
Stewart Room, Younger Hall
4-6pm, Thursday April 2, 2024.