Past events
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Jakkai Siributr: There’s no Place. Artist talk and launch event
18:00 - 20:00 14 November 2024
Join us for the opening launch event and artist talk by acclaimed Thai artist, Jakkai Siributr on his first UK exhibition There’s no Place . This autumn, the Whitworth presents There’s no Place a significant new exhibition by acclaimed Thai artist Jakkai Siributr. Building on the Whitworth’s long history of radical global textile exhibitions,...
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Sami Hermez (Northwestern University, Qatar) and Sireen Sawalha: My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
15:00 - 17:00 18 November 2024
In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. The book My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work...
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Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and glee of climate inaction
15:00 - 17:00 25 November 2024
In a recent statement, Scientists Rebellion, the international organization of environmental activists with a scientific background, posed the question: "What's the point of documenting in ever greater detail the catastrophe we face, if we're not willing to do anything about it?" Starting from this provocation, this paper investigates psycho-cultural...
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Bridget Bradley (St Andrews): Affect and Activism in the context of Ecological Anxiety: Towards a militant sentient anthropology
15:00 - 17:00 2 December 2024
Academic, public and political interest in eco-anxiety is steadily growing across the globe, and yet anthropology’s contribution to debates on the topic has been surprisingly slow. This paper responds to urgent and timely discussions relating to the emotional and social responses to ecological breakdown, by examining the lived experiences of...
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Nikita Simpson (SOAS): How do we theorise ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas
15:00 - 17:00 27 January 2025
The Gaddi tribal community, who inhabit the foothills of India’s Dhaula Dhar range, have experienced a rapid shift in livelihood over the last century from agro-pastoralism to waged labour, driven by urbanisation, land enclosure, ecological destruction, and climate change. This shift in livelihood has destabilised Gaddi dharam – or the moral...
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