New roundtable series on 'Sustainability as Cultural Practice'

Sustainability as Cultural Practice: Verbal and Visual Art, History and the Environmental Humanities

A series of four roundtable events in July 2021, organised in collaboration with the British School at Rome and the British Embassy in Italy. The series will be co-hosted by the newly established Italian Ministry for the Ecological Transition, and will be included in the "All4Climate – Italy 2021" PreCOP26 Programme, promoting 2021 as the Year of Climate Ambition. Bringing together scholars from UCL Cities Partnerships Programme in Rome (GEO), UCL Anthropocene, UCL SELCS, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL Institute of Global Health, UCL Sustainable Development Goals and UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All events are open to the public.

For more details see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/sustainability-cultural-practice

Organisers

• Professor Florian Mussgnug (Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, University College London).
• Dr Harriet O’Neill (Assistant Director for the Humanities and Social Sciences, British School at Rome; Honorary Research Associate, School of Modern Languages, Royal Holloway, University of London).
• Professor Chris Wickham FBA (Director, British School at Rome; Chichele Professor of Medieval History (Emeritus); Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford).

Image credit: Photo by Sarah Dorweiler on Unsplash