Environment and Technology reading group

We hope that you can make our next ‘environment and technology’ meeting, which will take place this Friday, 22nd of June, 3pm at MR315.

We will be discussing two related readings on theology and ethics, suggested by Dr Brian Brock.  The readings include Wendell Berry’s chapter on 'The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character' and a review of Dr Brock's Christian Ethics in a Technological Age by Timothy Gorringe, and Dr Brock's response to this review.  Please email Laurie (r01llr0@abdn.ac.uk) or Audrey (audreyverma@abdn.ac.uk) for a copy of these readings.

We look forward to seeing you all for what promises to be a probing session.  Please also be reminded that we accept all format suggestions and reading recommendations for future meetings, so do let us know if you have ideas for the group moving forward.

 Audrey and Laurie

Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: a Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa. An AHRC-funded collaborative research project led by Dr Nadia Kiwan, University of Aberdeen and Professor Ulrike Meinhof, University of Southampton, which focuses on the ways in which (post-)migrant cultural practitioners, performers, and musicians originating from North-Africa and Madagascar are able to use multiple translocal and transnational networks across African, European and wider global spaces. This project marks a key development in the empirical study of networks, by investigating links between migrant cultural practitioners which develop outside of established cultural/historical ties. Learn More
Electroacoustic Music Pete Stollery composes almost exclusively in the electroacoustic medium, particularly music where there exists an interplay between the original "meaning" of sounds and sounds existing purely as sound, divorced from their physical origins. In his music, this is achieved by the juxtaposition of real (familiar) and unreal (unfamiliar) sounds to create surreal landscapes.
In recent years he has become interested in how we relate to our sonic environment and has created many works for non-performance contexts.

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