Art and Ecology Research Seminar Series

This seminar series offers a platform for engagement with research in history of art at a time when the discipline is undergoing change in response to issues of urgent significance, including intergenerational justice, colonial legacies, and environmental breakdown.

Wednesday 23 October, 5.15pm

Giuliana Borea (Newcastle University), ‘The Power of Plants: Viruses, Healing, and Amazonian Indigenous Art’

Wednesday 6 November, 5.15pm

Giulia Smith (Ruskin School of Art) on art and ecology in the transnational Caribbean

Wednesday 20 November, 5.15pm

Edwin Coomasaru, ‘Queer Ecologies and Anti-Colonial Abundance in Lionel Wendt's Ceylon’

All talks will take place in the Fine Art seminar room in the King Edward VII Building. Refreshments will be served afterwards. Everybody is welcome.

Please email Fiona.Anderson@newcastle.ac.uk for further information.

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