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Centre for World Environmental History

Past Events and Research Seminars

Climates of Empire: Environmental Historians in Conversation with Climate Change Researchers

Thursday 26 June from 9:00 until 18:30

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

Climates of Empire will start a fresh conversation between environmental historians and climate change researchers.


Writing New Histories of Jharkhand and Central India and of Northeast India (1930-2000)

Wednesday 28 May from 10:00 until 16:00

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

This workshop brings together researchers working on Adivasis, Indigenous Peoples, and Scheduled Tribes in Jharkhand and Central India, and Northeast.


History Work-in-Progress Seminar Series: PhD Panel

Thursday 27 February from 16:00 until 17:00

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

This week's History Work-in-Progress Seminar will be delivered as a PhD panel.


Environmental History and Resistance in South Asia

Tuesday 18 June from 14:00 until 18:00

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

This workshop, designed for PhD students and early career researchers, explores new perspectives on environmental history and contemporary resistance.


Plantation Agriculture in Tobago: Development and Demise

Friday 22 March from 12:00 until 13:30

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

Join the Centre for World Environmental History for presentation on Plantation Agriculture in Tobago: Development and Demise by Dr Rita Pemberton


Nature as Curriculum: Education and the Earth System in the Anthropocene

Tuesday 19 March from 11:00 until 17:30

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

This Centre for World Environmental History workshop addresses challenges for education amidst the radical uncertainties of the Anthropocene


CWEH Seminar: After the Green Revolution: Documenting the Crisis in Punjab's Farmlands

Monday 18 March from 17:00 until 19:00

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

The Centre for World Environmental History is delighted to welcome photojournalist, filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer Harsha Vadlamani


CWEH Seminar: Caste, Politics and History in Contemporary India

Wednesday 13 March from 14:00 until 16:00

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

Centre for World Environmental History research seminar


Leverhulme Lecture: Extracting the Energy Transition: Lithium Imaginaries and Impossible Futures

Wednesday 25 October from 15:00 until 16:30

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

The Centre for Rights and Anticolonial Justice & the Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Energy Group would like to invite everyone to join this Leverhulme Lecture...


An interactive lecture on 'Planting the Anthropocene: Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Eastern Himalayas'

Wednesday 11 October from 12:30 until 13:30

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

An interactive lecture 'Planting the Anthropocene: Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Eastern Himalayas,' delivered by Professor Bengt G. Karlsson


Centre for World Environmental History Book Launch and Early Career Researcher’s Workshop

Tuesday 25 July from 11:00 until 15:30

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

Book Launch: "Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory" written by Sangeeta Dasgupta


Science, Visual Culture and Museums

Monday 26 June from 13:00 until 17:00

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

Digital launch of an exhibition "Science, Humanism and the Making of Modern India" and workshop


Decolonizing Adivasi Studies: Indigenous Histories and Narratives from South Asia

Friday 21 October from 14:00 until 18:30

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

Centre for World Environmental History event with Jacinta Kerketta - a poet, writer, freelance journalist, and activist from Eastern India.


Displacing History: Writing, Longing and (Un)Belonging - In Conversation with Isabella Hammad

Monday 17 October from 15:00 until 16:30

Βι¶ΉΣ³»­ Campus

British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad discusses her acclaimed novel The Parisian.


Algiers in the Mid-Twentieth Century: From Anti-Colonial Resistance to the Mecca of Third World Revolution

Wednesday 13 October from 17:00 until 18:30

Online

Elaine Mokhtefi will explore Algiers' revolutionary culture in the 1960s, from the War of Independence to the Pan-African Festival of 1969.