Imaginer, apprendre et s'engager dans un monde en transitions

This lecture explores the role that culture has, and can, play as critical social infrastructure in addressing the ecological planetary challenges of this century.
It argues that culture (and cultural practices in their broadest sense) can help us see things differently and help challenge our present and create alternative, more eco-socially just communities in the future. Culture can also help us to emotionally connect, intellectually process, and cognitively understand the magnitude of the ‘hyperobjects’ that are climate change and mass biodiversity loss.
As the often forgotten fourth pillar of sustainable development (alongside with ‘society’, ‘economics’ and ‘politics’), ‘culture’ can help bridge the policy gap between climate ambition and climate action (N. Cronin, 2024).
The lecture will also explore ideas of sustainable pedagogies (engaging with the UN Sustainable Development Goals), policy and place-based practice in Irish and European contexts.

Lecturer:

Dr Nessa Cronin, MaCI GATES Senior Research Fellow, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2024-25. Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, University of Galway, Ireland.

Biography:

Dr Nessa Cronin is Head of Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, University of Galway, and is currently the Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance, at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin for 2024-25. Her recent work in Environmental Humanities has critically examined the role of humanities research and creative arts practice in addressing the urgent challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, and she has also contributed to government policy on the role that culture can play in addressing the climate ambition/climate action gap.
Nessa has been the recipient of several awards from the Irish Research Council, Culture Ireland, and the European Science Foundation. She has held research fellowships and has been a Visiting Scholar in the University of Stanford, University of Oxford, Nantes Université, University of Concordia, amongst others, and is currently a GATES Senior Research Visiting Fellow at the Maison de la Création et l’Innovation at the Université Grenoble Alpes for 2024.

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