Aberdeen EAHN Reading Group
We are excited to launch the Environmental Arts and Humanities Network Reading Group, led by Ines Kirschner. The inaugural session will take place on Wednesday, 25th February, from 3-4pm, in the Interdisciplinary Lounge. Please note that this will be an in-person event.
For our first session, we will discuss texts on the theme of impact: ways in which the environmental arts, humanities, and social sciences can become ‘consequential in the age of consequences’, as Noel Castree (2021) puts it.
Please email Ines Kirschner for the full list of readings.
Aberdeen EAHN Film Screening Series
Tapping into the unique power of film and video to visualise, communicate and stir conversations about more-than-human issues which pertain to us all, the EAHN's public film screening series will welcome communities within and outwith academia to engage in dialogue and exchange about shared environmental concerns. Sponsored by the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Environment and Biodiversity, the series will launch in Spring 2026 with a season of films by local and Scottish-based filmmakers who will screen and discuss a selection of their work. Watch this space for further details.
Research Projects
- Just Reverberations (2025)
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Led by Dr Rebecca Macklin (LLMVC/ Interdisciplinary Institute) and Dr Andrew Whitehouse (Anthropology), this project partnered with Greyhope Bay, a local charity organization based at the former Torry artillery Battery.
Through a series of spring and summer community workshops, this project sought to understand how those living in the region experience environmental, cultural and industrial transitions through attending to perceptions of sound.
Participants produced field recordings of the coastal landscape that have been archived in the Elphinstone Institute. This project was supported by seed funding from the University of Aberdeen.
- A Play for Torry (2025-ongoing)
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Since 2025, Dr Shane Strachan has been working alongside writers Emer Morris and Mae Diansangu on ‘A Play for Torry’, a verbatim theatre project exploring the impacts of energy transitions on Torry in Aberdeen, including the 1970s oil boom and the recent Energy Transition Zone development on the last remaining green space in the area.
The play is built from real voices and lived experiences of people who have suffered from the rise and decline of industry, while fighting for land, health and home. Following a rehearsed reading in March 2025, it was fully staged in Aberdeen in January 2026 with hopes to tour Scotland soon.
It is supported by Friends of the Earth Scotland and Creative Scotland.
- Reflecting Oil: Arts-Based Research on Oil Transitionings (2019-24)
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Dr Alejandra Rodríguez-Remedi (Film and Visual Culture) helped formulate and was co-investigator on this interdisciplinary project led by the artist and researcher Ernst Logar.
The project was funded by the Austrian Science Fund and based at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in cooperation with the University of Leoben's Geoenergy Department and the Petrocultures Research Group in Canada. The project engaged multi-sensorially with crude oil through hands-on 'artistic experiments' with the substance, contributing to debates around energy transition in the post-oil age.
The edited volume Reflecting Oil (De Gruyter, 2025) offers a holistic account of the project's arts-based research process and key findings.
