We are excited to announce the programme for the Art + Anthropocene virtual seminar series taking place across four dates in March 2021.
Dates: March 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd
Registration: https://artanthropoceneyork.mystrikingly.com/
Registration is free and available through our website. Please note that separate registration is required for each event, and spaces are limited.
Hosted by: Department of History of Art and Department of Environment & Geography, University of York
This virtual seminar series brings together scholars in the sciences, social sciences and humanities to explore the effects of climate change on our global environment and how the respective disciplines are responding to the changes taking place. Art + Anthropocene seeks to identify the intersections between art, culture and the environment from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective, highlighting major world concerns such as the climate crisis, population displacement, coastal erosion, and declining wildlife populations, among others. Recognising the importance of the Anthropocene and climate change across these wide-ranging disciplines is decisive in making these fields more relevant and accessible to a wider, non-specialist audience.
We hope to see you there!
Programme:
WEEK 1 (2nd March) 13.00 – 16.00(GMT)
13.00 – 13.10 Welcome
13.10 – 14.25 Animals, Art and the Anthropocene
Moderator: James Boaden
Rosamund Portus (University of York) - Art and Ecology: Reshaping Environmental Crises Through Creativity
Owen Gurrey (University of Sheffield) - Anthropocene Perspectives in John Burnside’s The Hunt in the Forest
Ana Peraica (Danube University Krems) - Migration of Species into Images and Databases
14.35 – 15.35 Keynote
Moderator: Isabelle Gapp
Julie Doyle (University of Brighton) - Imagining Futures: Creative Collaborations for (Youth) Climate Engagement
15.35 – 15.45 Closing Remarks
WEEK 2 (9th March) 13.00 – 16.00(GMT)
13.00 – 13.10 Welcome
13.10 – 14.25 Anthropocene in the Modern Age
Moderator: David Shaw
Matthew Cotton (Teesside University) - Art, Ethics and Deliberative Engagement with Climate Change Futures
Michal Krawczyk (Griffith University) - Humanure! On composing with Gaia and (aesth)ethics of composting human waste.
Steve Cinderby (SEI, York) - Using Creative Methods to Improve Inclusion in the Delivery of Localized 2030 SDG Targets? Examples of Sustainable Transport and Air Pollution from Nairobi and Kampala
14.35 – 15.50 Temporal Landscapes
Moderator: Lauren Rawlins
Michael Cooper (University of York) - Unearthing the Forgotten Record of Glacier and Ice-Sheet Change
Tonje Haugland Sørensen (University of Bergen) - An Industrial Fairytale? Theodor Kittelsen’s Industrial Landscapes in an Eco-Critical Perspective
Rachel Magdeburg (University of Wolverhampton) - Contemporary Painting on Hollow Ground: Disappearance of Nature-as-Background in the Anthropocene
15.50 – 16.00 Closing Remarks
WEEK 3 (16th March) 13.00 – 16.00(GMT)
13.00 – 13.10 Welcome
13.10 – 14.25 Within the Water
Moderator: Bryce Beukers-Stewart
Katey Valentine (University of York) - The Hidden Microbial World of Environmental Plastic
Suzi Richer (Richer Environmental/University of York) & Laura Denning (Bath Spa University) - Sounds and Samples
Karen A. Stock (Winthrop University) - Building Castles in the Sand and Sparking Sympathy in Sun & Sea (Marina)
14.35 – 15.50 Coastlines and Climate Change
Moderator: Ed Garrett
Alexander Jardine (University of York) - Coastal Storms: Records from the Landscape and Literature
Richard Carter (University of Roehampton) - ‘Datascene’: Nonhuman Perception in the Art of the Anthropocene
Lucy McMahon (University of York) - Nature-Based Solutions: How Our Coastlines Help to Mitigate Climate Change
15.50 – 16.00 Closing Remarks
WEEK 4 (23rd March) 13.00 – 16.00(GMT)
13.00 – 13.10 Welcome
13.10 – 14.25 The Living Land
Moderator: MaryClaire Pappas
Julie Reiss (Independent Scholar) - Fertile Land, Barren Land: Sopheap Pich’s Ratanikiri Valley Grids
Declan Wiffen (University of Kent) - When is a Lichen not a Lichen? A Symptomatic Reading of Ólafur Eliasson’s Moss Wall
Claudia Rosenhan (University of Edinburgh) - Energy F/Flows Through the Environment
14.35 – 15.50 ‘The Awe of them Came on Me’: Ursula Le Guin and the Power of Trees
Moderator: Isabelle Gapp
Liesl King (York St John) and Alison Dyke (SEI, York)
15.50 – 16.00 Closing Remarks