Tuesday 28 October 2025 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Main Seminar Room, David Attenborough Building
About
In Conversation with Robert Macfarlane and Joycelyn Longdon
With the publication of Is A River Alive? and Natural Connection, Robert Macfarlane and Joycelyn Longdon are addressing critical issues surrounding the rights of nature and social justice. With a focus on the complex interweave of climate, nature, and society, they urge a deeper understanding of the lessons of people and place. Hosted by CCI Executive Director Melissa Leach, this is an event that will encourage us to acknowledge diverse voices, and work with local constituencies whose rooted knowledge, insights, and energy are crucial to ensuring a resilient future for everyone.
Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. With titles including The Wild Places, Landmarks, and Underland and twenty years of writing, he considers Is a River Alive? his most urgent book to date. His work has been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance, and he has collaborated with many other artists, including on two best-selling works of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, with Jackie Morris. He is Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities at the Faculty of English, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Joycelyn Longdon is an award-winning environmental justice researcher, educator and author. Her current PhD research centres on the co-design of justice-led conservation technologies, working with often excluded rural forest-fringe communities, notably in Ghana. Her work employs ethnographic, participatory design, and machine learning. She was also founder of ClimateInColour, an online education platform and community for the climate curious. Natural Connection is her first book.
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