Fate, Luck and Fortune Workshop 3: Popular Narratives of Environmental Risk
10:00am - 5:30pm /
Friday 8th September 2017
Type: Workshop /
Category: Department
- Georgina Endfield
- Suitable for: Anybody interested in the topic, including university staff and students and members of the public.
- Admission: Admission is free. Please register here.
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How do we talk about the risks of our environment?
Who do we blame when things go wrong?
This is the third and final workshop of the AHRC-funded network, 'Fate, Luck and Fortune: Narratives of Environmental Risk'.
This workshop will investigate whether and how conceptualisations of fate, luck and fortune remain powerful in current as well as historical popular discourses concerned with environmental risks.
Speakers include: Nick Alfrey (University of Nottingham), Claire Craig (Royal Society),Karen Henwood (Cardiff), James Lyons (Exeter) David Thorpe (sustainability consultant and author), Joe Smith (Open University), Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford)
More information about the project and the other workshops can be found here.
Who do we blame when things go wrong?
This is the third and final workshop of the AHRC-funded network, 'Fate, Luck and Fortune: Narratives of Environmental Risk'.
This workshop will investigate whether and how conceptualisations of fate, luck and fortune remain powerful in current as well as historical popular discourses concerned with environmental risks.
Speakers include: Nick Alfrey (University of Nottingham), Claire Craig (Royal Society),Karen Henwood (Cardiff), James Lyons (Exeter) David Thorpe (sustainability consultant and author), Joe Smith (Open University), Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford)
More information about the project and the other workshops can be found here.