Centre for Environmental Humanities
One of the UK’s leading centres for research on the environmental humanities
The hearse stopped at the crossroads – two lanes folded like ribbons. It was left or right to either end of the hamlet. The left lane led to the church, now decommissioned, while the right made its way to the family farm.
‘Why has it stopped?’ I asked from the back seat.
There was a brief pause. My mother said: ‘They’re giving him one last look.’ And then the hearse turned left towards the graveyard.
Circulated on behalf of Tobias Skiveren
13 – 14 October 2022
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark
Organisers: Iwona Janicka & Tobias Skiveren
The interdisciplinary conference aims to examine various sensations generated by natural environments in an era of climate change. It intends to explore how ecological mutation reconfigures the way we feel, sense, desire and what long term effects these changes have on mental health of individuals and communities. How do we sustain ourselves, mentally and emotionally, when our environments are destroyed? How do we compose more-than-human collectives that provide favourable conditions not only for survival but also for thriving for humans and nonhumans alike?
Please submit abstracts of 250-500 words as well as a brief biographical note (100 words) to earthsensationsconference@gmail.com by 1 June 2022. Notifications will be sent out by 15 June 2022. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length and should be held in English.
Thanks to a generous support of our funders, we are able to cover travel and accommodation expenses for two-three early career researchers or untenured academics based in Europe, who are not able to draw on their institutional resources. If you wish to be considered, please include a brief supporting statement (max. 50 words).
Read the full call for papers here.
Next week will see the return of the intercalated BA in Medical Humanities end-of-year celebration to its traditional place at ‘The Space’, PRSC, Jamaica St, Central Bristol. This year’s theme is ‘Healing the Divide between Medicine & the Humanities’
The exhibition will be open from Wednesday 25th to Thursday 26th May, from 11 am to 4.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to drop in. Tea and Coffee are available.
The exhibition also hosts a panel discussion and talk, which will be of particular interest to CEH members. This year the panel discussion, supported by medicine360.co.uk will be around social prescribing: what is it, how does it work, and what might it be? Or put another way — how can nature be integrated within the NHS.
A large part of the answer to that is the social prescribing link worker — a relatively new position. In medicine360-style, however, the discussion panel will involve a diverse set of perspectives on the issue — a GP, project leaders (The Human Nature Project, Blue Prescribing), an academic (Samantha Walton, author of Everybody Needs Beauty) a participant, and a social prescribing link worker for North Bristol. The panel will start at 4.30 pm on Wednesday 25th May. Free but ticketed.
For the talk the iBAMH is delighted to host @lucyjones, bestselling author of Losing Eden. She will be speaking on ‘Why Our Minds Need The Wild’ at 6pm on Wednesday 25th. This is also free but ticketed. PRSC is not that big, and the seats are going quite quickly.
The panel discussion will have a Bristol and surrounding area focus, while Lucy’s talk will be more wide-ranging; discussion and talk should complement one another, and there will be a Q&A discussion after both.
More info on twitter @uobrisibamh
All welcome!
Each year the University of Bristol offers its own and other universites’ medical students the opportunity to pause their main studies and gain an intercalated BA in Medical Humanities. Joining English and Philosophy students, these medical students are able to to explore some of the wider issues around healthcare.
Booking for the panel
Booking for Lucy Jones