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AHRC Science in Culture: Ignite

The AHRC Science in Culture Theme Ignite event will take place in the afternoon of 26th March 2014 (14.00- 18.00) at the Natural History Museum in London. The event will showcase the best of current interdisciplinary research across the Arts, Humanities and Science. The event will provide an opportunity for Early Career Researchers to demonstrate the excitement of cutting edge research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is a chance to show the viability of reciprocal research collaborations under the Science in Culture Theme.

Tickets for the events can be booked, and more information found, at http://www.sciculture.ac.uk/ignite2014/

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Climate Change and the Art of Memory Video

On the 9th October 2013, the Memory Network hosted novelist Maggie Gee, professor of Climate Change Mike Hulme, and eco-critic Greg Girrard for a public discussion on the subject of ‘Climate Change and the Art of Memory’ held at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. In this video the speakers detail their professional and personal investments in these topics.

Click here to read Sebastian Groes’s report on the panel’s discussion, and of the counter-intuitive ways in which questions of memory proliferate when thinking through climate change.

Click here to read Claire Colebrookes’s reflection on the Anthropocene and the Archive