Nature as Neighbour: Past Entanglements and Present Challenges

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Sat Feb 21 2026 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+00:00

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Blackfriars Hall | Oxford, EN

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This seminar will workshop how historical perspectives can inform present-day responses to the climate and natural world.
About this Event

This seminar brings together emerging scholars of historical ecologies, placing them in conversation to reflect on the relationship humanity has and had with the natural world. By tracing how human–environment relations have been imagined, governed, and lived in the past, the seminar foregrounds nature not as a distant backdrop but as a proximate and entangled neighbour. Responding to one another and in dialogue with attendees, this seminar will workshop how historical perspectives can inform present-day responses to the climate and natural world, offering critical insights into environmental-stewardship, -responsibility, -coexistence, and environmentally-just futures.

This event is open to everyone, registration is required to attend.

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