Eco-Humanities Research Group Public Lecture Series 2025-26
- Time
- 4pm - 5.15pm
- Date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Duration
- 75 minute(s)
- Location
- O'Rahilly Building, Rooms vary by event
- Language
- English
- Presenters
Thursday 12th March 2026: 4.00-5.15pm: in person lecture Venue: ORB 2.12 (Room 2.12, 2nd Floor, O’Rahilly Building), University College Cork main campus. Kelly Salchow MacArthur (Michigan State University)
Engaging Visual Culture: Eco-Activism Through Graphic Design
Thursday 26th March 2026: 3.00-4.00pm: in person workshop and nature walk
Venue: North Wing Council Room, Main Quad Building (1st floor), University College Cork main campus. Kelly Salchow MacArthur (Michigan State University)
Haptic + Biophilic: Green Collage Workshop
An event organised jointly by the Eco-Humanities Research Group and the Green Campus Committee for Green Week. An optional nature walk at 2.30pm will take place before the workshop – meet outside the Glucksman for the nature walk.Thursday 7th May 2026: 4.00-5.15pm: in person lecture Venue: CACSSS Seminar Room, ORB G27 (Room G27, Ground Floor, O’Rahilly Building), University College Cork main campus. Gert Hofmann (University College Cork) Prophaneti theos. Hölderlin’s trans-cognitive poetic of nature.
- Theme
- Academic
- Category
- Lecture
- Cost
- Free
- Registration Required
- No
- Organising Department
Eco-Humanities Research Group
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Climate action, Gender equality, No poverty, Quality education, Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities
- Accessibility Facilities
- Autism Friendly
Thursday March 12th Engaging Visual Culture: Eco-Activism Through Graphic Design
Eco-activist design aspires to contribute to (and sway) the ongoing dialogue of environmental urgency that is often met with inaction. Utilizing powerful tools of visual communication, urgent responsibility rests on the shoulders of designers to prioritize critical topics through clear and inspiring messages for the public.
The lecture will lay the groundwork for a subsequent event which will take place on Thursday 26th March for Green Week, Haptic and Biophilic: Green Collage Workshop, jointly organised by the UCC Eco-Humanities Research Group and the Green Campus Committee. 3.00-4.00pm: This hands-on workshop (venue: North Wing Council Room, main Quad Building – 1st Floor) will present a sequence of making meaning through collage. Participants should come with at least 10 pieces of ephemera from nature: printed photographs (b+w laserprints), foraged flora and fauna, rubbings of surfaces, drawings, notes, etc. Capturing these images and traces will rely on a biophilic experience—spending time in nature, sensing through sight, touch, smell and sound to truly forge a connection between self and natural space. Additional materials and prompts will be shared at the event. 2:30pm: Optional nature walk preceding the workshop. Meet outside the front entrance of The Glucksman if you would like to join a group walk. Participants should come with their collage materials that have been collected beforehand, but you may also collect more during this walk.
Thursday 7th May 2025: 4.00-5.15pm: In person lecture Venue: ORB G27 (O’Rahilly Building Ground Floor, Room G27), UCC main campus. Gert Hofmann (University College Cork) Prophaneti theos.
Hölderlin’s trans-cognitive poetic of nature. In the context of his reflections on aesthetic theory around 1800 Hölderlin suggests that humanity, despite all their artistic and cognitive ascent, need to respect the “spirit of nature”, “for as much as they have accomplished, [they] cannot create living beings.” For Hölderlin life is the primordial matter of nature and human existence. The human intellect can embark on life’s trajectory. It can benefit from life as the driving force of all organic metamorphoses of nature, but it cannot take possession of life for its own self-centred purposes.