A panel of postgraduate and early career researchers in Art, Archaeology, Music and Oceanography will share research and lead an informal discussion about how working with oceans, rivers and other waterways shapes their disciplines and academic approaches to the environment.
Panellists:
Elly Walters: Elly is a Stipendiary Lecturer in French at Somerville College. She holds an MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (University of Oxford) and a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (University of Cambridge). She has also studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, France. Elly’s doctoral project explored points of encounter between water and experience in twenty-first-century women’s writing in French. Her thesis brought together the work of Marie Darrieussecq, Nathacha Appanah, Amélie Nothomb, and Fatou Diome to analyse the role of water in literary representations of grief and trauma, doing so in conversation with posthuman and decolonial feminisms.
Jen DeNike (Ruskin School of Art): Jen received her MFA from Bard College and was, most recently, an invited lecturer at Glasgow School of Art and Stanford University. She has given visiting artist lectures at NYU, Columbia, Tyler University, Brown University, School of Visual Arts, and Cal Arts. Her moving image work negotiates a distinctly feminine perspective on gender roles. A director of choreographed movements, she evokes cinematic archetypes and aesthetic cannons, building a gravity of repetitive actions, forming a psychogeography of both real and imagined utopias that interchangeably function as containers of desire and places of intervention. Water appears frequently in her work as an elemental symbolic source – a place of entry – a feminist snap – a queer device -for the body, eliciting new perimeters of belonging or not belonging.
Dimitris Karampas (Faculty of Classics): Dimitris’s thesis aims to reconstruct the maritime cultural landscape of the island of Crete through the study of available coastal and underwater archaeological remains such as harbours, ports, and shipwrecks. The study of such sites highlights the importance of the environment of the coastal seascape in transforming the economic, social, and political framework of Crete during the Imperial period. The study focuses on the analysis and interpretation of changes that took place on the coastal landscape and harbours of Crete during the transition from the Hellenistic to the Roman period.
Charlotte Maris (Department of Earth Sciences): Charlotte is a DPhil student within the NERC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) at the Department of Earth Sciences. Her research focuses on using computational model simulations to investigate the mechanisms driving ocean circulation in the Arctic. Specifically, she study how water entering the Arctic is modified at the surface through interactions with the atmosphere and sea ice, and how these processes may evolve in response to future climate-induced warming and freshening. Through this work, Charlotte aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the Arctic’s role in global ocean circulation under changing climate conditions.
