Centre for World Environmental History

Past Events and Research Seminars

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History Work-in-Progress Seminar Series: PhD Panel

Thursday 27 February from 16:00 until 17:00

University of Sussex Campus

This week's History Work-in-Progress Seminar will be delivered as a PhD panel.


Plantation Agriculture in Tobago: Development and Demise

Friday 22 March from 12:00 until 13:30

University of Sussex Campus

Join the Centre for World Environmental History for presentation on Plantation Agriculture in Tobago: Development and Demise by Dr Rita Pemberton


Nature as Curriculum: Education and the Earth System in the Anthropocene

Tuesday 19 March from 11:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

This Centre for World Environmental History workshop addresses challenges for education amidst the radical uncertainties of the Anthropocene


CWEH Seminar: After the Green Revolution: Documenting the Crisis in Punjab's Farmlands

Monday 18 March from 17:00 until 19:00

University of Sussex Campus

The Centre for World Environmental History is delighted to welcome photojournalist, filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer Harsha Vadlamani


CWEH Seminar: Caste, Politics and History in Contemporary India

Wednesday 13 March from 14:00 until 16:00

University of Sussex Campus

Centre for World Environmental History research seminar


Leverhulme Lecture: Extracting the Energy Transition: Lithium Imaginaries and Impossible Futures

Wednesday 25 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

The Centre for Rights and Anticolonial Justice & the Sussex Energy Group would like to invite everyone to join this Leverhulme Lecture...


Decolonizing Adivasi Studies: Indigenous Histories and Narratives from South Asia

Friday 21 October from 14:00 until 18:30

University of Sussex Campus

Centre for World Environmental History event with Jacinta Kerketta - a poet, writer, freelance journalist, and activist from Eastern India.


Displacing History: Writing, Longing and (Un)Belonging - In Conversation with Isabella Hammad

Monday 17 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad discusses her acclaimed novel The Parisian.


Algiers in the Mid-Twentieth Century: From Anti-Colonial Resistance to the Mecca of Third World Revolution

Wednesday 13 October from 17:00 until 18:30

Online

Elaine Mokhtefi will explore Algiers' revolutionary culture in the 1960s, from the War of Independence to the Pan-African Festival of 1969.


Princes of the Vegetable Kingdom: Palms and the Making of Kew

Wednesday 31 March from 13:00 until 14:00

Online

Kate Teltscher, Emeritus Fellow, University of Roehampton and author of Palace of Palms, will discuss nineteenth-century palm culture.


Deforestation – Mining – Climate Change: The cases of Saranda Forest in Jarkhand and Niyamgiri Hills in Odisha

Friday 26 March from 14:00 until 16:00

Online

An exploration of forests in India under mining stress, where indigenous dwellers are caught between companies/government and climate change.


Book Launch: Development Aggression

Friday 26 March from 12:00 until 13:00

Online

An online book launch for Jiten Yumnam's new book.


The potential of grassroots international solidarity

Thursday 25 March from 18:00 until 20:00

Online

Foil Vedanta activist, Miriam Rose, will discuss this group's experience of successful struggles against a multinational mining company.


Rainforest restoration in the Tesoro Reserve Ecuador

Tuesday 23 March from 17:00 until 18:00

Online

A talk about the conservation work carried out in the Tesoro Reserve in Ecuador


Petrol Imaginaries: Dystopian Theatre and the Metabolic Rift in Kuwaiti Drama

Wednesday 10 February from 17:00 until 18:30

zoom

Co-sponsored by SPEAR (Sussex Performance Events and Research), Sussex English Colloquium and MENACS (Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex)


Autoethnography of camels in Oman

Wednesday 3 February from 12:30 until 14:00

https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/98554763843

Dr Ibtisam Al-Wahaibi of Sultan Qaboos University will speak on “Autoethnography of camels in Oman” at 12.30-14.00 on Wednesday 3 Feburary 2021.


The Cytokine Storms - A film by Susan Thomson

Friday 29 January from 13:00 until 15:00

Zoom

A Centre for World Environment History film screening and talk with film maker Susan Thomson.


Oral Histories of the Narmada Struggle – Experiences and Insights

Friday 15 January from 13:00 until 14:30

Zoom

Nandini Oza will discuss her work chronicling the oral histories of those affected by the Sardar Sarovar dam and irrigation project in Western India.


Researching Palestinian Refugee History

Monday 30 November from 17:00 until 18:30

https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/91026486999

Dr Anne Irfan (Oxford) in conversation with Dr Jacob Norris (Sussex) on the challenges of carrying out historical research on Palestinian refugees.


The Role and Memory of Women Anti-Colonial Resistance Fighters in Algeria

Wednesday 25 November from 17:00 until 18:30

https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/93055747478

Nadja Makhlouf discusses photos from her exhibition on the "moudjahidate" female fighters in the Algerian War of Liberation.


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