Funded PhD Opportunity: Performing Geochronology: Deep Time and Sustainable Futures along Scotland’s Western Seaboard

How can creative research investigation into the climatic and tectonic processes operating along Scotland's Western Seaboard can help to nurture and communicate a sense of the 'deep time' involved?  This includes the 'slow' temporality associated with glaciations, and the 'quick' events of storms and flooding, but also organic temporalities, from evolution to settlement patterns. Such... Continue Reading →

Anthroposcene Evolution

James Watt didn't start the anthropocene age, nor is he responsible for climate change, but the invention of the Steam Engine is more than a footnote in history.  The new online journal at http://www.anthroposcenemanifesto.com (sic) is a platform for research and reflection from social, cultural ecology perspectives.  The introduction reads, The Anthroposcene Evolution is a... Continue Reading →

33 dagar/33 Days

”33 Days” - an exhibition by Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén 20.11 2014—15.2 2015 KONSTHALL C , Cigarrvägen 14, 123 57 Farsta, Sweden http://www.konsthallc.se 33 dagar/33 Days is an exhibition by Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén, and an investigation into the life of insects existing in a habitat of Damson trees (Prunus Insititia). The first... Continue Reading →

Fallen Animals cfp

Deadline for this workshop is 15th January 2015. Call For Papers - Fallen Animals: an interdisciplinary perspective 19th-20th March 2015, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Following the success of the Fall Narratives project in 2014, this workshop will explore the theme of fallen animals. The serpent in the Garden of Eden is but one example of... Continue Reading →

Strange Attractor

If you are in Aberdeen you should take the opportunity to visit David Blyth's exhibition at the Georgina Scott Sutherland Study Centre, Aberdeen Business School, Garthdee, before going to the discussion being held at Aberdeen Art Gallery at 2pm on Saturday 13 December. This first event in a series of three brings together artist David... Continue Reading →

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