Food Security and the Environment in India and Britain
Workshop on how pre-modern cultural constructions of famine provide a different frame of reference for debate
Modern environmental crises, such as climate change, have forced us to confront a post-modern relationship with famine that resembles its pre-modern counterpart. This workshop brings together literary scholars, historians, social scientists, and developers of community initiatives to examine how pre-modern cultural constructions of famine can provide a different frame of reference for current debates on food security.
| An English and Creative Writing workshop | |
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| Date | 3 - 4 September 2015 |
| Time | 9:00 to 17:00 |
| Place | Gottmann Room, Oxford University Centre for the Environment |
| Provider | English and Creative Writing |
Event details
The workshop will take place at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. It is co-hosted by the University of Exeter and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford.
The event is part of an AHRC-funded project Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800: Connected Cultural Histories of Food Security, led by Dr Ayesha Mukherjee (Principal Investigator, University of Exeter) and Prof. Amlan Das Gupta (Co-Investigator, Jadavpur University):
Registration is free and some spaces are still available. Online registration and further details: http://store.exeter.ac.uk/
Contact: Mandy Bedford (M.Bedford@exeter.ac.uk)
Ayesha Mukherjee (A.Mukherjee@exeter.ac.uk)
| Attachments | |
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 Workshop_programme___final.pdf | Workshop Programme (176K) |
| Workshop_poster.pdf | Workshop Poster (289K) |
