Climate Change and Creativity: round table discussion

Rajat Chaudhuri, author, activist, NGO adviser; Liese Coulter, Visiting Researcher, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds; Tanya Hawkes, author and environmentalist; James Miller, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at Kingston University; Stephen Peake, Professor of Climate Change and Energy, The Open University; Harriet Tarlo, Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics, Sheffield Hallam University.

Academics and practising writers engaged with climate change and creativity in different ways will talk about their research and/or creative practice, and take part in a discussion on ways to communicate climate crisis messages to wider audiences using storytelling and narrative.

In this round table discussion, academics and practising writers engaged with climate change and creativity in different ways will talk about their research and/or creative practice, and discuss ways to communicate climate crisis messages to wider audiences.

Register via Eventbrite Attendance is free.

Participants:

Rajat Chaudhuri - author, activist, NGO adviser

Liese Coulter - Visiting Researcher, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds

Tanya Hawkes - author and environmentalist

James Miller - Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at Kingston University

Stephen Peake - Professor of Climate Change and Energy, The Open University

Harriet Tarlo - Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics, Sheffield Hallam University

For more information on the seminar series, which takes place throughout autumn 2021, please visit the Contemporary Cultures of Writing website