The Electric Nemesis at 4S/EASST 2016
Barcelona International Convention Center (CCIB) Barcelona, SpainI will be participating in several events at the 4S/EASST conference in Barcelona, including an improvised performance by The Electric Nemesis. Meet 'Wanna Wonder the Academic' and 'The Electric Nemesis' One has a red nose, a Science Studies book in hand, and a box with who knows what inside. The other was sewn together, hides…
Seedbox by Starlight, and other poems
TEMA, Linköping University , SwedenAs part of my residency at Seedbox, Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, at Linköping University, I am giving a talk about the work I am creating. This will be a performance, an experiment, of poems and writing, inspired by the many places and people, creatures and critters, that comprise the Seedbox environmental humanities collaboratory. Alongside, I’ll also…
Orkney Storytelling Festival
ICIT, Old Academy Stromness, OrkneyI'm thrilled to have been asked to give the keynote for the Orkney Storytelling Festival 2016, on Friday 28 October. I'll be weaving a tale about myths and marine energy... Storytelling and Marine Energy, or ‘How Wave Energy got an Origin Myth’ This is about an origin myth–an origin myth for wave energy, with selkie…
Feeding the insatiable: art and energy creative summit
Dartington Hall, Devon , United KingdomThe wonderful Schumacher College in Devon is organising an international summit on Art and Energy at Dartington Hall, Feeding the Insatiable, real and imagined narratives of art and energy. They've asked me to join them as Keynote speaker, alongside LandArt Generator Initiative eco-artists, Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian, and Chris Fremantle from Eco/Art/Scot/land. Looks like…
Speculative Worlds: a Writing Workshop
SydDansk Universitet Odense, DenmarkFollowing on from the continued success of my short PhD Workshops on writing, this 1 day workshop is happening at SydDansk Universitet. This is a practice-based writing workshop for participants to explore diverse writing methods. Students will produce experimental pieces of writing based on their research. This will be a supportive place for PhD researchers…
Here there be dragons, in Bergen
University of Bergen Bergen, NorwayAs part of the launch of the new Energy Anthropology Network, I will be presenting a paper at the Energy Impacts: People, Responsibilities and the Contested Futures of Energy Developments conference in Bergen, Norway. This two and a half day conference will bring together academics and activists from around the world to reflect on the…
Future Archaeologies: Writing speculative fabulation (SF) from fragments of evidence
Linnaeus University Kalmar, SwedenHalf-day workshop at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden. Archaeologists have long argued for "the productive and generative potential of breakage and decay” (as Josh Pollard memorably wrote). Many elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences would agree: knowledge is situated, empirical evidence is always partial, the worlds we make from evidence gathered (in the ethnographic past)…
Orkney Electron Poetics at University of Stirling
University of Stirling Stirling, United KingdomI've been invited to give both a performance and presentation at the Connecting with a low-carbon future conference this month. This conference is part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network - Connecting with a low-carbon Scotland. The following is an outline of what I will perform and discuss. Hope to see a few…