Sustainability and the Humanities : Shaping Culture and Community for a Changing World

Cardiff Humanities Research Institute, Cardiff University
Body, Health and Religion Research Group (BAHAR), Cardiff University

Date: Monday 10th May 2010, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Optometry Building, Cardiff University

Finding ways of living in viable ongoing relationship with our environment, including other human beings and societies, is a key issue for our time, and the focus of growing attention across all aspects of public and private life. How we respond to challenges of sustainability will be increasingly central to academic life in years to come, both in relation to research development and curriculum innovation.

As sustainability issues ripple through all aspects of human life, the Humanities have specific contributions to make, particularly in the cultural and community aspects of sustainability. This one-day CHRI conference and workshop has been organised to explore the implications of sustainability for the Humanities, and to address a range of intriguing and pressing questions in this area.

Headline Presentations:

Professor Daniella Tilbury (Director of Sustainability, Marie Curie Chair in Sustainability, University of Gloucestershire)

Dr Colin Brooks (HE Academy Education for Sustainable Development Project, former Director, HEA Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology)

Professor Justin Lewis (Head of School, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural studies, Cardiff University)

Professor Barbara Adam (Social Sciences, Cardiff)

Professor Geoffrey Samuel (History and Archaeology, Cardiff University)

For further details, please see the Event Schedule.

To register, please email Geoffrey Samuel (samuelg@cardiff.ac.uk), if possible by 23 April 2010, indicating any dietary or access requirements.