TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
Trinity Term 2023
Radcliffe Humanities Building
Week 1: Tuesday 25th April, 11.00-13.00
Sherry Lee and Emily MacCallum (University of Toronto)
Music as Petroculture and the Sound of Just Transition
Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Week 2: Tuesday, 2nd May, 12.30-1.30
Kirsten Shepherd Barr (Oxford) and Hannah Simpson (University of Edinburgh)
Title tbc.
Colin Mathew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Week 4: Tuesday, 16th May, 12.30-14.30
Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (University of Oxford), in conversation with
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (University of Chicago), and Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University), with a response from John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Exeter).
Discussing Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
Colin Mathew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Week 6: Tuesday, 30th May, 12.30-1.30
Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford)
The Promise of Multispecies Justice
Colin Mathew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Week 8: June 13th, 12.30-1.30
Alda Balthrop-Lewis (University of Oxford, visiting from ACU)
Thomas Merton reading Rachel Carson, or, the politics of race and ecology in the 1960s
Colin Mathew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Tea and coffee will be available – please feel free to bring a sandwich with you.
