Egenis book launch: How Worlds End: Launching A Perturbed System

Monday, 28 September 2026 at 15:15

Egenis book launch (hybrid), with host Dr Susanna Crockford (University of Exeter) and respondents Dougald Hine (writer and activist), Christopher Southgate (University of Exeter) and Jo Hamilton (University of Exeter)

Event details

A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change at the End of a World presents multi-sited ethnographic work in the US and Northern Europe that shows how people are responding to climate change as the end of the world. The theological motif of apocalypse runs strong in climate discourse, but this work goes beyond that to illustrate many more theological motifs derived from Protestant Christianity that shape and constrain climate discourse. In this launch event, I will introduce the book and its main arguments, and then three respondents will develop the conversation on the work to explore how religion, climate science, and activism interact. Dougald Hine is a writer and activist, one of the co-authors of the Uncivilisation Manifesto that launched the Dark Mountain festivals and anthologies, and one of the key interlocutors who features in the book. Christopher Southgate is an ecotheologian from the University of Exeter. Jo Hamilton is a human geographer from the University of Exeter.

Monday 28 September 2026, 15:15-17:00

Venue: Byrne House

Online: via Zoom

Free to attend. Register here

Organiser

Egenis, Centre for the Study of Life Sciences

Location

Susan Kelly Seminar Room, Byrne House, Streatham Campus