The Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) aims to connect PGR students with experienced researchers in the format of a ‘methods surgery’ where practical challenges, obstacles, tips and tricks can be discussed.

In this third edition of the Eco-creativity conference, we invite interdisciplinary, empirical, and ethnographic approaches to understanding the role of arts and creative industries in delineating new ‘emotional landscapes’ of the climate and ecological crises.

Richard Heffernan discusses enabling electoral disenchantment to be expressed at an election.

This workshop invites contributions around new teaching and research methodologies which can aid expressive and reflective engagement with contemporary global challenges exacerbated by the climate crisis. CFP is open.

In this presentation, Dr Maria Nita will discuss how distinct environmental groups and networks in her ethnographic research – such as participants in XR Regen groups, climate camps, transition groups and green fields at festivals – strive to create ephemeral, material dimensions of transformed or alternative rural and urban futures.

In this talk, Dr Paul-Francois Tremlett explores efforts to generate affective and contagious publics (Papacharissi 2015) by two organisations which campaign on human rights in the Philippines: the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines (CHRP-UK) and IBON International. 

This 2021 Conference is hosted by the Religious Studies, Art History, Music and Politics Departments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University. Deadline for abstract submission: 30 September 2021

In the lead-up to the 26^th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow this November, OU Professor of Religious Studies Graham Harvey has partnered with Border Crossings to commission Indigenous Mexican artist Jun Tiburcio to design TOTEM LATAMAT. There are dates and locations you can visit the totem on its journey from London to Glasgow for COP26.

An interdisciplinary conference organised by the Religious Studies department of The Open University. Deadline for submissions: 1^st May 2021.

An interdisciplinary conference organised by the Religious Studies department of The Open University. Deadline for submissions: 1^st May 2021.