Mary Douglas' Cultural Theory seminar

The annual seminar will run in a hybrid format at the University of Greenwich during the afternoon of 28th May and fully online on the afternoon of the 29th. This year's London speakers are:

• David Casagrande (LeHigh University) and Aaron Lampman (Washington College) will be speaking about Ecomyopia on the Chesapeake: A Theoretical Explanation for Impediments to Community-scale Climate Adaptation.
• Jason P Davies (University College London) will consider Cultures of education: Bringing Cultural Theory to Higher Education pedagogy .

Please see our blog for more information about travel to the venue. The seminar will be held in the Queen Mary Building, room QM068. There is no charge for attending but booking is required for catering purposes and to receive the Zoom link.

The afternoon of the 28th is a hybrid session and the online aspect will run through Zoom.

The Friday session, on the afternoon of the 29th will be run wholly online via the same Zoom link, which will be made available to registered attendees shortly before the seminar. All speakers are from the University of Saskatchewan.

• Ines Sanchez-Rodriguez: Reshaping Design Thinking for Boundary Objects by Centering Relationality, Cultural Knowledge, and Land-Based Knowledge
• Graham Strickert: Responsiveness in Transdisciplinary Research: What does it feel like?
• Lori Bradford: From Friction to Function: Cultural Theory and Adaptive Leadership in Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Grants

More details and abstracts are available on our 2026 Programme Information page.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

Get App

Host or Publisher Mary Douglas Cultural Theory seminar