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Long Field Loop: Artist-in-Residence Showcase Event

Long Field Loop: Artist-in-Residence Showcase Event

Don't miss out on this final opportunity to see poet, playwright, and interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Sharp in her role as the inaugural Centre for Energy Ethics Artist-in-Residence. Join us at the Byre Theatre on Thursday 23 May for the launch of Rebecca's new...

Waste Worlding: Virtual Summer Institute

Waste Worlding: Virtual Summer Institute

Waste Worlding is a virtual summer institute held between June 3-6 and hosted by the Bucknell Humanities Center. This institute is designed to highlight interdisciplinary approaches to the various worlds of waste by inviting scholars to workshop writing and works in...

Call for Papers: Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges  

Call for Papers: Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges  

A Trans-Disciplinary Conference  31 Oct – 2 Nov 2024 University of Dundee & University of Edinburgh  Edinburgh, Scotland   Today, ‘energy’ is most often associated with the global North’s – and increasingly the global South’s – vital dependence on the combustion...

St Andrews Climate Week

St Andrews Climate Week

STAIRS and STACEES are delighted to invite you to the inaugural University of St Andrews Climate Week, which will run from 27-30 May, with a series of events designed to highlight climate-themed research and build new cross-disciplinary collaborations. Climate Week is...

Environmental Futures Symposium (Online/In Person)

Environmental Futures Symposium (Online/In Person)

The Environmental Futures Research Group at Memorial University’s Grenfell Campus invites you to attend a one-day symposium on environmental futures. This event will feature guest talks by national and international scholars on critical future studies, futuring methodologies, and pathways towards sustainable futures. 

COP28 Reflections: An activist’s journey to the biggest climate conferences

COP28 Reflections: An activist’s journey to the biggest climate conferences

by Léa Weimann

From my first Climate Strike in December 2015, I knew that I wanted to participate in a Conference of the Parties (COP) on Climate Change. I wanted to take the energy, passion, and frustration I felt as a teenager protesting in the streets into the negotiating rooms that decide our future. Eight years later, the reality of that dream is very different from what I had imagined.

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