[ecrea] Symposium: History, Memory and Green Imaginaries, University of Brighton, UK

History, Memory and Green Imaginaries
A symposium presented by the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and
Histories, University of Brighton

Friday 30th November 2012
9.30am – 5.00pm
M2, Grand Parade, University of Brighton

This symposium invites reflection on the ways in which history and memory
inform and shape contemporary green imaginaries. It brings together cultural
theorists, historians, cultural geographers, educators and policy actors.

Keynote: ‘The problem of the past’
Alastair Bonnett, Professor of Social Geography, Newcastle University

Roundtable: ‘Austerity and sustainability’
The Home Front and ‘austerity Britain’ are significant points of reference
in current debates about sustainability. What kinds of possibilities and
limitations follow from the use of historical resources in public debate
about environmental issues?

Tim Cooper, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter, ‘The limits of
history in green imaginaries’.
Victoria Johnson, Head of Climate Change and Energy, New Economics
Foundation, ‘“Ration me up” and other nef projects’
James Piers Taylor, British Film Institute Documentation Editor and
permaculture educator, ‘Re-member, re-vision and re-claim: using archival
film to facilitate local conversations about community resilience’.

Panel: ‘Ecological history’
How can historical research inform environmental thinking? Three historians
discuss this question in relation to their research and practice.

Vinita Damodaran, Senior Lecturer in South Asian History, University of
Sussex, ‘“Primitive places and wild tribes”: colonial and indigenous
understandings of nature in Eastern India in the nineteenth century’.
Erin Gill, environmental journalist and historian, ‘“Lost” environmental
histories: the stories we've forgotten’.
Karin Jaschke, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Brighton,
‘Historiography as process: towards an Ecological History of Architecture’.

Closing remarks: ‘Culture is natural: biosemiotics, recycling, and the
evolutionary structurations of biological and cultural change’
Wendy Wheeler, Professor Emeritus of English Literature and Cultural
Inquiry, London Metropolitan University.

Registration:
This event is open to all. Please register in advance by following the link
below. The registration fee is £35, or £25 for students/unaffiliated
delegates, including lunch and refreshments.

Enquiries: Cheryl Roberts /(cr16 /at/ brighton.ac.uk)
Programme and abstracts:http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/mnh
Register:http://shop.brighton.ac.uk/


Dr Rebecca Bramall
Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
Faculty of Arts
University of Brighton
+44 (0)1273 644651
(r.bramall /at/ brighton.ac.uk)
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/rebecca-bramall

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