Piers Blaikie Annual Lecture 2025Info Location Contact More Info Event Information
DescriptionWe invite you for the 2025 Piers Blaikie Lecture on the theme of “Exploring the contours of feminist political ecology: Dialogues in the Norfolk Landscape”. Rebecca Elmhirst, Professor of Human Geography, University of Brighton joins Sabine Virani (Co-founder and Co-lead, Green New Deal Norwich); Helen Baczkowska (writer and ecologist), Rebecca Stonehill (Writer/ activist, Norwich Writers Rebel) and Hannah Claxton (Founder of Eves Hill Veg) for an engaging conversation on what it means to be a woman land defender globally and in Norfolk. The panellists will deliberate on some pressing issues related to the times we live in, each shedding light on how they engage in the embodied ways of feminist political ecology. They will explore how questions of justice and power show up as they create hopeful alternatives to existing systems. The event is curated by the Global Environmental Justice Group and supported by our friend and former colleague Prof Emeritus Piers Blaikie. The discussion will be followed by a reception with drinks and refreshments.
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More InformationUEA Campus Venue - Enterprise Centre Lecture TheatreKeynote speaker: Rebecca Elmhirst is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK. She is a human geographer and feminist political ecologist, with two decades of research and teaching experience on struggles over environmental justice. Most of her work is in partnership with communities and scholar-activists in Southeast Asia, with whom she has developed various programmes of research and teaching. Discussants: Rebecca Stonehill is an author and activist from Norwich. She has written four historical fiction novels, a memoir and has had many poems and short stories published. Rebecca runs Norwich Writers Rebel, a collective of local writers and poets who are responding to the climate and ecological emergency with their pens by organising open mics, workshops and other events. Hannah Claxton runs Eves Hill Veg Co in Aylsham, Norfolk, a highly productive 1-acre market garden with a range of community and training programmes. Started in 2016 the project is rooted in organic and ecological principles of veg growing alongside a desire to share land-based skills, opportunities, support and high nutrition & flavour locally whilst creating sustainable livelihoods for our team of workers. Helen Baczkowska is a writer and ecologist living in rural Norfolk. She has worked and volunteered in nature conservation for over 30 years and in that time has also been an environmental activist. As a writer, her work is largely non-fiction and explores the histories, both natural and human, of places, as well as memories of 30 years as an environmental campaigner. Sabine Virani coordinates Sustainable Food Norwich (SFN), a partnership working to build local resilience through our food system. SFN collaborates with partners to address food poverty, diet-related ill health and the climate and ecological crises, while supporting local farmers, food businesses and communities to thrive. A student of nonviolent communication and collaborative decision-making, Sabine's committed to finding solutions for complex problems that meet everyone’s needs. | ||||||||||||||||
