How Sustainable Is American Farming and Can Indigenous Agroecology Solve Its Key Challenges? @ UCL (14 November 2022)

‘How Sustainable Is American Farming and Can Indigenous Agroecology Solve Its Key Challenges?‘ (in-person event) Abstract Almost 10 billion people are predicted to exist on Earth by 2050—that is about 3 billion more who will need to be fed compared to 2010. However, expanding our current agriculture systems is not a sustainable solution to this … Read more

Discovering Britain through discourses of indigeneity @ Cambridge (online 9 November 2022)

The Treaty of Penn with the Indians by Benjamin West. Public Domain.

‘Discovering Britain through discourses of indigeneity II: British Empire and colonialism’ (online) Abstract British history is rife with change; ethnic, social and linguistic shifts have indelibly marked its present day. While discourses of ‘native’ or ‘original’ Britons in popular media are nothing new, with the surge in topics of Indigeneity across disciplines, some scholars have … Read more

Lunar Ambassadors: British Perceptions of Moon Samples @ NASA & Georgetown (30 September 2022)

‘Lunar Ambassadors: British Perceptions of Moon Samples from NASA and the USSR’ (hybrid online/in-person event) This event is now over. View the recording below: Event Details Matthias Wong gave this talk on Friday 30 September 2022, 9-10:30am EDT at Georgetown University as part of the ‘History of NASA and the Environment Symposium‘, organised by the … Read more

New Approaches to Material Culture in Historic Houses (9 June 2022)

‘New Approaches to Material Culture in Historic Houses: Miskito Indigenous Cultures, Mahogany and Environmental Futures‘ (online seminar via Zoom) Joy Porter and TSRG PhD Hannah Cusworth will be presenting a seminar on Thursday 9 June 2022, 3-4:30pm UK time at the Institute of Historical Research via Zoom, as part of their ‘World in a Historic … Read more