Seminars are regularly scheduled Wednesday afternoons
Presentations will be live-streamed on zoom. Groups will convene in Glasgow to listen together and hold informal post-seminar discussions.
Tentative Schedule. Subject to change, like everything else.
Register on eventbrite for your free ticket to attend the seminars.
August
11 August – 6PM UK – Bright Edge Deep: peatlands in history, cultural heritage, and climate – round table discussion (Gareth Beale – University of Glasgow, Nicki Whitehouse – University of Glasgow, Tom Gardner – Historic Environment Scotland, Althea Davies – University of St. Andrews, Ben Gearey – University College Cork, Rosie Everett – University of Warwick) – Watch the Recording
Organised with the Glasgow Archaeology Festival.
Register for this associated event via Eventbrite here
September
22 September -1PM UK – Innocent Pikirayi (University of Pretoria). Archaeology and Climate Change in Africa – Confronting the difficult questions.
29 September – 4PM UK – Sarah Govan (University of Edinburgh and ClimateXChange) The historic dimension of landscape and a changing climate in Scotland
October
6 October – 4PM UK – Carla Lancelotti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Past, present and future of smart crops: An ethnographic and modelling approach to mapping long-term millets cultivation in drylands
13 October – 4PM UK – Ruben Post (University of St. Andrews) Ancient Graeco-Roman History and the Contemporary Climate Crisis: Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Relevance
20 October – 4PM UK – Marcy Rockman (University of Maryland and Co-Equal) Landscapes of Knowledge and Power in Climate Change Science and Policy
27 October – 4PM UK – Felix Riede (Aarhus University) Curating catastrophe – bringing the archaeology of past extreme environmental events and their societal impacts to bear on the present
November
3 November – 4PM UK – Mairi Davies (Historic Environment Scotland) – Resistance, adaptation, acceptance: managing climate change risk to cultural heritage in Scotland
10 November – 4PM UK – Carole Crumley (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) – Taking Historical Ecology to Administrators and Policy Makers
17 November – 4PM UK – Science Panel (Amy Bogaard – University of Oxford, Andrew Dugmore – University of Edinburgh, Hannah Fluck – Historic England, Ian Simpson – Graduate Centre, City University New York, S. Yoshi Maezumi – University of Amsterdam, chaired by Nicki Whitehouse – University of Glasgow)
24 November – 4PM UK – Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck (Freie Universität Berlin) – Materiality of Modernity: An Archaeology of World War II Forced Labor Camps in Berlin
December
1 December – 1PM UK – Xiaolin Ren (Chinese Academy of Sciences) – Incipient urbanism, environmental consequences, and social resilience in the Central Plains of China
8 December – 4PM UK – George Hambrecht (University of Maryland) – ‘Distributed Long-term Observation Networks of the Past’: the utility of mobilizing the past to address contemporary climate change. Behavior, Baselines and Genetics
Allied Events
Stirling’s Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy seminar series – Climate Change theme – Tuesdays, 1-2PM UK
| 5 October | Dr Andrea Schapper Senior Lecturer in Politics University of Stirling; Chair: Dr Sally Foster | Human rights and justice-based civil society demands in international climate negotiations – COP26 and beyond |
| 19 October | Dr Annalisa Savaresi Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law University of Stirling; Chair: Dr Sally Foster | Getting to know COP26. What is on the agenda and what to expect |
| 9 November | Dr Clemens Hoffmann Lecturer in International Politics University of Stirling; Chair: Dr Hannes Stephan | Climate emergency and the question of system change: Is ‘degrowth’ the only game left in town |
| 23 November | Dr Hannes Stephan Lecturer in Environmental Politics University of Stirling; Chair: Dr Jennie Morgan | Communicating climate change through narratives: strategies for supporting low-carbon policy |
| 1 February | Dr Ewan Hyslop Head of Technical Research and Science Historic Environment Scotland Honorary Professor, University of Stirling; Chair: Professor Siân Jones | Title to follow |
| 15 February | Dr Eileen Tisdall Lecturer in Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling; Chair: Dr Jennie Morgan | Storming the castle: medieval climate change, storm surges and coastal impacts at Caerlaverock |
| 8 March | Professor John Schofield Department of Archaeology University of York; Chair: Professor Siân Jones | ‘Trouble in paradise’: how archaeology can be used to address the wicked problem of plastic pollution in the Galapagos Archipelago (Ecuador) |
| 22 March | Dr Lorna-Jane Richardson Lecturer in Digital Humanities Department of Art, Media and American Studies University of East Anglia; Chair: Dr Chiara Bonacchi | The dark side of digital heritage: ethics and sustainability in digital practice |
The University of Stirling Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy conducts their virtual seminars using Microsoft Teams, link here. To receive an advance reminder about individual meetings, please ensure you are on the CEHP mailing list – send your email address to s.m.foster@stir.ac.uk.
