Cultural Climates – Public Seminar – ‘Fostering Art for Sustainability – Time for a New Cultural Policy?’

   Iain Biggs, Flight/Paths: (Her bones…) 2018.

Cultural Climates is a two-part lecture and public forum which explores how research and policy in relation to climate change can be engaged with across the cultural and arts sectors in Ireland today. In particular, it explores how culture and the arts are key to addressing issues associated with the climate emergency, and how the arts and sustainability sectors need to be more integrated in their approach to addressing social, political and environmental challenges in the Age of the Capitalocene. The presentations from Dr Iain Biggs and Dr Cathy Fitzgerald will be followed by a public forum and discussion on what role the arts and cultural sectors can, and need to, play in addressing the issues of ecological crisis in this a time of climate emergency.

Cultural Climates: This public seminar emerges from research, teaching and public engagement events in the areas of Irish Studies, Art, Geography and socially-engaged research developed between Dr Nessa Cronin at NUI Galway and Professor Karen E. Till and Professor Gerry Kearns at Maynooth University since 2012.

Supported by the Centre for Irish Studies, Moore Institute, and the Research Support Scheme, CASSCS, NUI Galway, 2018-19 and the Irish Research Council’s Creative Connections Scheme. In association with the EUGEO International Conference and the Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Galway, 15-18 May 2019.