The Peat Café 2023-24: an online, interdisciplinary lunchtime lecture series

Published: 3 November 2023

Join our lunchtime lectures at our virtual Peat Café

After Michael Muir’s wonderful hosting of the first year of this programme (building on the network developed through both the University of Glasgow’s Bright Edge Deep and Discipline Hopping Wetlands initiative), we have offered to take up hosting the second season, which will run on zoom:

Meeting ID: 937 4789 3814
Passcode: 953251

This year, we are expanding the network to draw in participants from the Peat: Past Present and Future network based at the University of Manchester and the north-west more widely.

Please feel free to dip in and out of the schedule according to your interests, and additional ideas for talks about projects and initiatives would be most welcome!  Please feel free to share and invite other participants who might be interested in the programme.

The lecture schedule so far:

Month

Speaker and Title

Monday 23 October 1pm

News round-up  - a chance to informally share research plans, activities, fieldwork or even mossy, boggy daytrips! Please come along with an image or idea to share in an open format session…

Monday 13 November 1pm

Bianca Cavazzin (University of Glasgow)

Past and future: biomarkers in peatlands

Monday 4 December 1pm

Joanne Tippett (University of Manchester)

Time and change – place-based sustainability learning with the RoundView

Tuesday 9 January 1pm

James Palmer (University of Bristol) and Kärg Karma (University of Birmingham)

Carbon Futures in the Mire

Monday 5 February 1pm

Abbi Flint (University of Newcastle)

WetFutures: poetic inquiry as method

Monday 4 March 1pm

Nye Merrill-Glover (University of Bristol)

The Marling Festivals: Environmental Metaphor in Eighteenth Century England

Monday 3 April 1pm

Mike Longden (Lancashire Wildlife Trust)

Lancashire Wildlife Trust wetland restoration project

Monday 6 May 1pm

Melanie Giles (University of Manchester) and Liz Ellis

Mossfox (a creative collaboration)

Monday 3 June 1pm

Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester)

Peaty Politics

Monday 1 July 1pm

Roy Van Beek (University of of Waganingen, Netherlands

An international survey of Bog Bodies (part of the HomeTurf project)

Monday 12 August 1pm

The 40th anniversary of Lindow man: a round-up of celebration events, community creativity, education and bog restoration projects

September

Ideas for speakers welcome!

Copyright Rose Ferraby: People Peatlands


First published: 3 November 2023

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