I regularly give lectures in academic conferences, schools, universities, EdTech conventions, webinars, literary festivals and other public and private events. If you’re interested in having me deliver a presentation, please contact me to discuss details.
Eva Haifa Giraud has just joined the University of Sheffield as a senior lecturer in Digital Media and Society and is author of Veganism, Politics, Practice, and Theory (Bloomsbury, forthcoming July 2021). Catherine Oliver is a Research Associate on urban ecologies at the University of Cambridge and author of Veganism, Archives, and animals: Geographies of a Multispecies World (Routledge, forthcoming August 2021)
Host Gemma Curto and guest host Dr Alice Higgs ask Eva and Catherine about their new books, the theme is veganism and sustainability.
Find it here: https://sheffieldanimals.group.shef.ac.uk/sharc-podcast/
Image: “Trio” by mripp is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Dr Jemma Deer is a Researcher in Residence at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and author of Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2020). You can read more on her website, here: sites.google.com/view/jemmadeer/
Host Gemma Curto and guest host Cecilia Tricker-Walsh ask Dr Deer about her book and her article entitled ‘Quenched: Five Fires for Thinking Extinction’ published in Oxford Literary Review (2019). They discuss extinction.
Find it here: https://sheffieldanimals.group.shef.ac.uk/sharc-podcast/
Image: “Dinosaur Tracks!” by Disgwylfa is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This special episode of the ShARC Podcast: Animal Studies in Focus Series,
sees host Gemma Curto (@GemmaCurto1), and guest Juliet de Little (@julietdelittle) discuss floodings, their impact on human and nonhuman animals relations and its representations in Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s graphic novel Rain (2019).
Find it here: https://sheffieldanimals.group.shef.ac.uk/sharc-podcast/
Photograph: “A lone armadillo moves across a flooded roadway in Booth, Texas on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. Micharl Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle. https://www.chron.com/houston/article/Photos-Animals-swamped-in-Houston-flood-April-7255868.php#photo-10173200
Keynote speakers:
Dr Kate Smith (University of Hull)
Dr Katie Ritson (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)
Generously sponsored by the Sheffield Water Centre, The University of Sheffield
Conference: 9am - 3pm, 19 May 2021 [itinerary in BST/GMT+1]
Event registration page and programme: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wet-feet-flood-resilience-and-the-climate-crisis-tickets-136599660261
About this event:
Papers will engage with our main theme of conceptualisations of flooding; including flood resilience and impacts of climate change on flooding and water flow. This includes: how floods are depicted in contemporary narratives in a variety of forms and media as means as reflecting climate change; how social practices, policy and governance influence and shape flooding as well as our responses to them. Wet feet? Flooding, resilience and the climate crisis will take an interdisciplinary approach to the aforementioned theme in societies and academia.
Conference organisers: Gemma Curto (g.curto@sheffield.ac.uk) and Juliet de Little (jmdelittle1@sheffield.ac.uk), University of Sheffield
This was the third session of the Flooding the Field series, where we approached the science of flooding. I talked about the science of flooding in contemporary graphic novels alongside Alex Jardine on Thursday 11th March, 1.30pm (UK time). Event registration page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flooding-the-field-the-science-tickets-138801221189
Organised by White Rose College Of Arts And Humanities - Floods Network
Attendees joined the call with a virtual drink on 21st October 2020 at 7pm while I presented my research in 10 minutes. My talk was about climate change and fictional authors.
Registration page and abstract: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pubhd-sheffield-online-october-2020-tickets-123479559687#
A talk about how the language of graphic novels captures growing public awareness about climate change, its consequences in the form of floods and possible responses to it.
Find it here: https://www.offtheshelf.org.uk/ideas-alive/ (University of Sheffield Recording Equipment)