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The Fennell Forum: History and the Climate Crisis

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This virtual forum explored the effect of climate change on the future study of history and, with data suggesting that the humanities are in crisis on both sides of the Atlantic, the role the humanities and history in particular could play in the face of dramatic climate and environmental change.

You can view a recording of this Fennell Forum below.

Video: HCA Fennell Forum - History and the Climate Crisis
A recording of the Fennell Forum: History and the Climate Crisis, 9 November 2021. This virtual forum explores the effect of climate change on the future study of history and, with data suggesting that the humanities are in crisis on both sides of the Atlantic, and how the role the humanities and history in particular, could play in the face of dramatic climate and environmental change.

 

The panel was chaired by former Fennell Lecturer, Patrick Griffin, who is Madden-Hennebry Professor of History and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and brings together three gifted academics from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology - Dr Emily Brownell (Lecturer in Environmental History), Dr Sonia Tycko (soon to be Lecturer in Labour History, presently Kinder Junior Research Fellow in Atlantic History at St Peter’s and the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford), and Sveinn Jóhannesson (Fennell Early Career Development Fellow in US History).

Find out more about the Fennell Lectures and Simon Fennell

 

Nov 09 2021 -

The Fennell Forum: History and the Climate Crisis

The second event in the Fennell Forum series took place during COP26 and explored the relationship between the study of history and climate change.