College of Arts & Humanities

Imagining the Future of Travel

The Dear Green Bothy | College of Arts
Date: Thursday 22 July 2021
Time: 10:30 - 19:30
Venue: Online
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Staff workshops and seminars,
Website: www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/artslab/labsandthemes/collegewidethemes/landscapesofmutability/headline_797662_en.html

Travel has not always been as easy and comfortable as we know it and international travel is one of the problems facing us in this ecological crisis. This series of online discussions will consider travel critically, aesthetically and creatively. The discussions examine how people historically and geographically have satisfied their thirst to visit distant landscapes old and new. In addition, taking its cue from David Lowenthal’s The Past is a Foreign Country, some of the presentations take us on a tour to our local histories showing what we can find when looking deeper into our past.

This event will consist of three sessions:

• 10:30-12:00 Session 1: Alternative ways of travelling
• 13:00-14:30 Session 2: Staying local
• 18:00-19:30 Session 3: Artists staying at home

For further information and to register for this online event, please visit the event's webpage.

Presented as part of The Dear Green Bothy, a collaborative cultural programme from the University of Glasgow’s College of Arts showcasing creative and critical responses to climate emergency.

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