Nature as Neighbour: Past Entanglements and Present Challenges
21st February: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm GMT
Giotto, Francis’s Sermon to the Birds (Basilica di San Francesco, c.1300)
This seminar brings together emerging scholars of historical ecologies, placing them in conversation to reflect on the relationship humanity has and had with the natural world. By tracing how human–environment relations have been imagined, governed, and lived in the past, the seminar foregrounds nature not as a distant backdrop but as a proximate and entangled neighbour. Responding to one another and in dialogue with attendees, this seminar will workshop how historical perspectives can inform present-day responses to the climate and natural world, offering critical insights into environmental-stewardship, -responsibility, -coexistence, and environmentally-just futures.
The seminar will be held at 2pm Saturday the 21st of February, at Blackfriars Hall. A reception will follow. This event is open to everyone, registration is required to attend.
Venue: Blackfriars Hall -
St Giles
Oxford,
OX1 3LY
United Kingdom
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Contact:
Las Casas Institute
lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk