#OceanMatters
In 2016, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation predicted that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean. Currently it is estimated that a massive 8 million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. This special series of talks, workshops, and film screenings will focus on the global plastics crisis and what it means for our oceans. However plastics are not the only issue currently plaguing our oceans. Over the course of the weekend researchers from all across the South West will come together to showcase their most recent work on ocean health. Not only will you hear from a range of academics, scientists and artists, but you'll also get the opportunity to meet some local organisations who are doing everything they can to stop the flow of plastics into the ocean.
Over the weekend we want to hear what the ocean means to YOU. Using the hashtag #OceanMatters we want you to take to twitter, facebook and instagram, tag us and tell us about what the ocean means to you and what YOU have done, or will do, to help out.
Over the weekend we want to hear what the ocean means to YOU. Using the hashtag #OceanMatters we want you to take to twitter, facebook and instagram, tag us and tell us about what the ocean means to you and what YOU have done, or will do, to help out.
How to Get Here
Our Event Partners
This event is hosted by Bristol Aquarium, and supported by Bath Spa University, the University of Exeter, ASLE, and in collaboration with our charity partners Wildscreen and City to Sea.
Click the images below to find out more about our event partners.
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Meet Our Team
Dr Alexandra Campbell |
Dr Treasa De Loughry |
Alexandra Campbell is a Lecturer in English Literature (Writing and the Environment) at Bath Spa University. Her current research emerges at the intersection of several critical discourses including, archipelagic studies, ecocriticism, ecopoetics and the recent rise of the ‘Blue Humanities’. She has published and forthcoming articles in a range of international journals including Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Anglistik, Études Écossaises. She is particularly interested in ecologies and poetries of the sea. She is currently working on a monograph, "Hydropoetics: North Atlantic Literature and the Techno-Ocean" focusing on discourses of extraction, disposal and transmission at sea in contemporary North Atlantic poetry.
[email protected] @ACamp_Bell |
Treasa De Loughry is a Lecturer in Global and World Literatures at the University of Exeter. Her research intersects world literature, postcolonial studies and environmental humanities. She is especially interested in global cultural registrations of petro-plastic pollution. Treasa currently has articles published or forthcoming in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Green Letters, and chapters in various edited collections. Her monograph, titled The Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis - Contemporary Literary Narratives, is under contract with the Palgrave Macmillan Series “New Comparisons in World Literature”.
t.de-loughryatexeter.ac.uk @treasadel |