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20 Dec 24 | Job & Opportunities
Invitation for researchers: One World – Planetary Health Workshop
Date: Wednesday 22nd January, 14.00-15.00
Location: Second Floor Lecture Theatre, Radcliffe Humanities (and online via MS Teams) (Lunch and refreshments provided)
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Level 2, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Site address: Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
This is an invitation to attend a session to brainstorm ideas for a Cultural Programme Season on Planetary Health. Prof. Alan Bernstein (Director of Global Health), Prof. Erica Charters (History) and Associate Prof Venus Bivar (History) are already collaborating with the Cultural Programme on possible opportunities for the season and we are keen now to extend an invitation to others to join the conversation.
The aim of the session is to explore and test the potential for the season and bring together researchers who could be involved in shaping and delivering it.
The focus of the season will be on cultural work which engages with the intersection between human health & wellbeing and environmental & planetary health. The season will take place in Trinity Term 2027 and will be one of the first major seasons of cultural programming in the new Schwarzman Centre. We would like the season to be ambitious and international while also engaging grass-roots, local communities, especially schools and young people. It will be wide-ranging, inclusive, accessible, innovative, and fun.
We are keen to open-up the very many potential threads in the season, which include environmental anxiety and grief, climate justice, worker health and the role of protest in improving environmental and human health.
We are calling out for researchers from the across the University to join us as we develop the season. We are keen to learn about research projects in the University which connect to this theme, and explore the potential for cultural activities which are inspired by or connect with this research.
Please come along to this initial group meeting for all interested parties, which will be structured around the question: What has cultural and creative activity got to do with planetary health?
We also invite you to pass the invitation on to other Oxford researchers who you think might be interested to contribute to this workshop.
If you have something you would like to share or discuss in advance, please reach out to the researchers who are already involved above, or contact Holly Knights at the Cultural Programme with your suggestion.
If you are able to attend please RSVP to the culturalprogramme@humanities.ox.ac.uk with ‘Planetary Health Workshop’ in the subject line by 14 January 2025.
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