Events

The collaborative style of working at the OU has been incorporated into a practical expertise at hosting and running a wide range of working groups, workshops, all of which have produced research outputs.

Dr Vincent Gauci - Wetland Carbon Exchange Responses to Global Change

30 May 2012, 14:00 - 16:00
Wetlands, including peat lands, are carbon dense ecosystems that exist across temperate, boreal and tropical latitude zones.

Will Gosling - Thinking Environmentally. How Did We Get Here ? Exploring Past Environmental Change to Provide Context for Today

13 June 2012, 14:00 - 16:00

Past environmental change research is important for two key reasons: 1) understanding the processes by which modern environments developed allows effective management and conservation of landscapes, and 2) understanding how environments responded to changes in the past can provide insight into how they may respond to projected change in the future.

Sunitha Pangala and Jim McGinlay

27 June 2012, 14:00 - 16:00

Further information will be available shortly

Past events

Climate Politics and Environmental Justice in Europe from a Multi-scale Perspective - Dr Sybille Bauriedl

16 May 2012, 14:00 - 16:00
The European Union has formulated ambitious green house gas emission reduction goals, but serious concerns are being raised about the environmental, economic and social sustainability of the transition of energy systems at a variety of scales by climate activists and critical scientists.

What object is the innermost? Andreas Henriksson, Karlstad University, Sweden

25 April 2012, 14:00 - 16:00
In his talk, Andreas Henriksson explores how Actor-Network Theory can be used to investigate intimacy. He argue that the innermost can be understood as that thing which needs to be known in order for us to say that we know another person as a whole, rather than merely in parts.

Enlivened Geographies of Neighbourhood Policy? Dr Ellie Jupp

18 April 2012, 14:00 - 16:00
In this paper I will seek to outline a critique of some approaches to urban policy interventions within urban geography and to suggest some new directions for understanding the interplay of such policy programmes with other aspects of everyday life. Using empirical material examining the relationships and spaces of neighbourhood programmes in Stoke-on-Trent and Oxford, I draw attention t

Dr Caitlin DeSilvey - Exeter University - Anticipatory history: experiment or instrument?

28 March 2012, 13:00 - 16:00

The practice of anticipatory history is a form of experimental story-telling that turns to historic landscape processes and patterns to find resources for imagining and engaging with future environmental change.

Patrick Keiller - Tate Britain Exhibition 2012

27 March 2012, 10:00 - 14 October 2012, 18:00

Patrick Keiller is an Affiliate Member of OpenSpace Research Centre. We are delighted to invite you all to visit Patrick Keiller's exhibition at Tate Britain from 27 March 2012 to 14 October 2012.

Please visit Tate Britain's link below for further information on the exhibition:

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/patrick-keiller-...