The Peat Café brings together peatland researchers across disciplines to share their research, creative ideas and interests. Building on the network developed as part of the University of Glasgow’s ‘Bright Edge Deep’ and ‘Discipline Hopping Wetlands’ initiatives, this year sees participants from the University of Manchester and wider north west’s ‘Peat: Past, Present and Future’ network and beyond.
The lecture schedule so far:
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Month |
Speaker and Title |
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Monday 23 October 1pm |
News round-up - a chance to informally share research plans, activities, fieldwork or even mossy, boggy daytrips! Please come along with an image or idea to share in an open format session… |
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Monday 13 November 1pm |
Bianca Cavazzin (University of Glasgow) Past and future: biomarkers in peatlands |
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Monday 4 December 1pm |
Joanne Tippett (University of Manchester) Time and change – place-based sustainability learning with the RoundView |
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Tuesday 9 January 1pm |
James Palmer (University of Bristol) and Kärg Karma (University of Birmingham) Carbon Futures in the Mire |
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Monday 5 February 1pm |
Abbi Flint (University of Newcastle) WetFutures: poetic inquiry as method |
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Monday 4 March 1pm |
Nye Merrill-Glover (University of Bristol) The Marling Festivals: Environmental Metaphor in Eighteenth Century England |
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Monday 3 April 1pm |
Mike Longden (Lancashire Wildlife Trust) Lancashire Wildlife Trust wetland restoration project |
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Monday 6 May 1pm |
Melanie Giles (University of Manchester) and Liz Ellis Mossfox (a creative collaboration) |
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Monday 3 June 1pm |
Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester) Peaty Politics |
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Monday 1 July 1pm |
Roy Van Beek (University of of Waganingen, Netherlands An international survey of Bog Bodies (part of the HomeTurf project) |
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Monday 12 August 1pm |
The 40th anniversary of Lindow man: a round-up of celebration events, community creativity, education and bog restoration projects |
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September |
Ideas for speakers welcome! |