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Art + Anthropocene
Culture, Climate and Our Changing Planet
- Virtual Seminar Series, March 2021 -
Welcome!
We would like to welcome you to attend our first
Art and Environment interdisciplinary and virtual seminar series in March 2021.

This seminar series adapts the original conference (planned for March 2020) and aims to bring together an encompassing perspective of two distinct disciplines to explore the relationship between the visual arts, the sciences and the current climate crisis.
About
"Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years.
Climate change" - David Attenborough

Our Aim
Today, we live in a world which is experiencing unprecedented global change. From melting glaciers to increasing wildfires, tropical storms to population displacement, understanding how our planet is changing is crucial to both ours and the planets future. Recent media attention of the climate crisis has generated an urgent need for an international awareness of these pressing issues, with the youth climate activist Greta Thunburg and Extinction Rebellion, among others, inspiring a public climate movement. Highlighting these major world concerns, Art + Anthropocene aims to bring together an interdisciplinary approach to art and environment for all audiences, so as to better communicate climate change and the Anthropocene.

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 and declining wildlife populations, among others. Recognising the importance of the Anthropocene and climate change across these wide-ranging disciplines is decisive in making both of these fields more relevant and accessible to a wider, non-specialist audience.

In the organisation of this programme we are fortunate to be working alongside the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB), the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) and the Humanities Research Centre. As such, we hope to inspire wider interdisciplinary thinking, discussion and collaboration.

We look forward to seeing you (virtually) in March 2021!
Programme & Registration
13.00-16.00(GMT) - March 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd

Please note that registration is required for each separate event
The respective registration links are available at the top of each day's programme. Registration is limited.

Do contact us if you have any questions: artanthroyork@gmail.com

WEEK 1 (2^nd March) 13.00 – 16.00(GMT)
* REGISTER HERE *

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 (9^th March) 13.00 – 16.00(GMT)
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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 CANCELLED
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 (16^th March) 13.00 – 16.00(GMT)
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13.00 – 13.10 Welcome

13.10 – 14.25 Within the Water
Moderator: Bryce 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 (23^rd March) 13.00 – 16.00(GMT)
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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)
Mimetic naturecultures and multispecies world-making: Olafur Eliasson's Moss Wall and Natasha Lavdovsky's Rootless Designs

Claudia Rosenhan (University of Edinburgh)
Energy F/Flows Through the Environment (Handout)

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)
Please see the attached handout, as you may want to read it in advance if you have time.

15.50 – 16.00 Closing Remarks
Keynote Speaker

Prof. Julie Doyle
Professor of Media and Communication, The University of Brighton
Professor Julie Doyle researches in media and communication and is an authority on climate communication. Her research examines the ways in which media and culture shape our understandings of, and responses to, climate change.

With a particular focus upon visual communication, Prof. Doyle has worked collaboratively with visual artists and cultural educators, and provided consultancy for environmental NGOs, government and the sustainability communications sector on best practice for climate and environmental communication.

Latest Publications:

Practising everyday climate cultures: understanding the cultural politics of climate change
Goodman, M. K., J. Doyle, N. Farrell., Sep 2020, Climatic Change 163: 1-7.

Creative Communication Approaches to Youth Climate Engagement: Using Speculative Fiction and Participatory Play to Facilitate Young People's Multidimensional Engagement with Climate Change
Doyle, J., May 2020, International Journal of Communication 14: 2749-2772

Imaginative engagements: critical reflections on visual arts and climate change
Doyle, J., Mar 2019, Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene. Delaware: Vernon Press.

For more information: https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/julie-doyle
Organisers
We are researchers associated with the History of Art and the Environment and Geography Departments,
University of York.
Our aim is to bridge the gap between the Humanities and Sciences, bringing about cross-departmental collaboration and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Dr Isabelle Gapp
Research Affiliate - History of Art
Research Interests: The Circumpolar North, Scandinavian and North American landscape painting 1880-1930, art and ecology.
Lauren Rawlins
PhD Researcher - Environmental Geography
Research Interests: Greenland Ice Sheet, ice sheet hydrology, remote sensing, UAV photogrammetry, climate change, science communication
Dr David Rippin
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Research Interests: Glaciers and ice sheet change, ice dynamics, geomorphology, remote sensing, modern photogrammetric techniques, surface drainage of polythermal glaciers
Dr Penny How
Remote Sensing Specialist at Asiaq Greenland Survey, Nuuk
Research Interests: Greenland Ice Sheet, remote sensing, photogrammetry, ice dynamics
Sponsors
We would like to thank the following organisations for supporting this event

HRC Collaborative Postgraduate Project Grant
Humanities Research Centre, University of York
Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity
University of York
https://www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene-biodiversity/
York Environmental Sustainability Institute
University of York
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Art + Anthropocene

Culture, Climate and Our Changing Planet
- Virtual Seminar Series, March 2021 -

Welcome!

About

"Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years.
Climate change" - David Attenborough

Our Aim

Programme & Registration

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Julie Doyle

Professor of Media and Communication, The University of Brighton

Organisers

We are researchers associated with the History of Art and the Environment and Geography Departments,
University of York.
Our aim is to bridge the gap between the Humanities and Sciences, bringing about cross-departmental collaboration and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Dr Isabelle Gapp

Research Affiliate - History of Art

Lauren Rawlins

PhD Researcher - Environmental Geography

Dr David Rippin

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

Dr Penny How

Remote Sensing Specialist at Asiaq Greenland Survey, Nuuk

Sponsors

We would like to thank the following organisations for supporting this event

HRC Collaborative Postgraduate Project Grant

Humanities Research Centre, University of York

Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

University of York

York Environmental Sustainability Institute

University of York

Contact Us

If you have any questions about the event please submit the form below

Click - Follow - Keep up to date!

Art + Anthropocene

Culture, Climate and Our Changing Planet- Virtual Seminar Series, March 2021 -

Welcome!

About

"Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years.Climate change" - David Attenborough

Our Aim

Programme & Registration

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Julie Doyle

Professor of Media and Communication, The University of Brighton

Organisers

We are researchers associated with the History of Art and the Environment and Geography Departments, University of York. Our aim is to bridge the gap between the Humanities and Sciences, bringing about cross-departmental collaboration and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Dr Isabelle Gapp

Research Affiliate - History of Art

Lauren Rawlins

PhD Researcher - Environmental Geography

Dr David Rippin

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

Dr Penny How

Remote Sensing Specialist at Asiaq Greenland Survey​, Nuuk

Sponsors

We would like to thank the following organisations for supporting this event

HRC Collaborative Postgraduate Project Grant

Humanities Research Centre, University of York

Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

University of York

York Environmental Sustainability Institute

University of York

Contact Us

If you have any questions about the event please submit the form below

Click - Follow - Keep up to date!

Culture, Climate and Our Changing Planet
- Virtual Seminar Series, March 2021 -

"Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years.
Climate change" - David Attenborough

We are researchers associated with the History of Art and the Environment and Geography Departments,
University of York.
Our aim is to bridge the gap between the Humanities and Sciences, bringing about cross-departmental collaboration and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Remote Sensing Specialist at Asiaq Greenland Survey, Nuuk