OpenSpace Seminar Series

Sunitha Pangala and Jim McGinlay

27 June 2012, 14:00 - 16:00

Further information will be available shortly

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.

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

Kellie Payne - Culture at COP15

21 March 2012, 14:00 - 16:00

In addition to official cultural activities and events such as the large three site exhibition Rethink: Contemporary Art and Climate Change, there was a vast array of cultural happenings across Copenhagen which responded to the neogtiations taking place at the Bella Centre for the UN Climate Change summit, COP1

Dr Clare Melhuish - ‘We make your image REAL’ (Foto Gulf Studio, Doha): the role of digital visualizing technologies in mediating the imagined and the real in global contemporary architectural practice

21 March 2012, 14:00 - 16:00
Clare Melhuish will present an early stage review of the ESRC-funded research project directed by Gillian Rose and Monica Degen: ‘Architectural atmospheres, branding and the social: the impact of digital visualising technologies on contemporary architectural practice’.

Mike Savage Talk - Postponed

15 February 2012 (All day)

This talk has been postponed.  Date to be advised

Dr Sara MacKian - Where on earth are we going? Looking beyond the journey in contemporary spiritual experience and practice

7 March 2012, 14:00 - 16:00
The metaphor of the journey is all-pervading in the literature on contemporary spirituality. Increasingly conceptualised as a spirituality of ‘the self’, it seems these journeys take the traveller ever deeper inside themselves in search of the divine spark still smouldering deep within.

Steve Pile - Freud and the Topologies of the Human/Nonhuman

1 February 2012, 14:00 - 16:00
In Geography, recently, there has been a strong challenge to rethink human social relations by rethinking the place and role of nonhumans in those social relationships. Drawing, often, upon Latour, Human Geographers have insisted that nonhumans have to be treated in the same way as humans in accounts of social events.