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Nigel Clark (Lancaster University): ‘Speculative Volcanology, Igneous Becomings’
The Earth, observes geologist Jan Zalasiewicz,is `a gigantic machine for producing strata’. A…
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Sonia Ali (University of Glasgow): ‘Excavated Realities’
Turn the Collid-a-scape -what happens when time, space and materials collide? Turn it once…
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Jacob Barber (University of Edinburgh): ‘The epistemic violence of the Anthropocene’
To consider the epistemic violence of ‘Anthropocene’ I want to explore how the…
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Deep Time & Violence Keynote: Dr Thom van Dooren (University of New South Wales): ‘The Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene’
In this lecture, Thom Van Dooren focuses on a small population of roughly…
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Michael Northcott (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Ethical Implications of Different Deep Time Eschatologies among Scottish Christian Environmental Activists’
Abstract: Interviewees in the Ancestral Time project reveal a range of beliefs about…
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Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University): ‘Gods of the Anthropocene: human and inhuman agencies in the Earth’s new epoch’
The term ‘the Anthropocene’ seems to evoke the idea of an ‘Age of…
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Sarah May (University College London): ‘Futures of Safety and Adventure, (Re)Enchanting the Future’
What do we mean when we say forever? Natural and cultural heritage management…
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Martin Philip (University of Edinburgh/The Open University): ‘Curling reality: progress on thin ice’
Last weekend brought the third indoor Grand Match staged by the Royal Caledonian…
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Katy Ewing (University of Glasgow): ‘Writing about Corncockle’
My own recent experience with deep time was in a return to a…
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Osbert Lancaster (osbert.org/University of Edinburgh): ‘A Story of Deep Time in Practice’
Several years ago, while training as a facilitator of learning experiences in wild…
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