This virtual forum will explore the effect of climate change on the future study of history and, with data suggesting that the humanities are in crisis on both sides of the Atlantic, the role the humanities and history in particular could play in the face of dramatic climate and environmental change.

The panel will be chaired by former Fennell Lecturer, Patrick Griffin, who is Madden-Hennebry Professor of History and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and brings together three gifted academics from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology - Dr Emily Brownell (Lecturer in Environmental History), Dr Sonia Tycko (soon to be Lecturer in Labour History, presently Kinder Junior Research Fellow in Atlantic History at St Peter’s and the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford), and Sveinn Jóhannesson (Fennell Early Career Development Fellow in US History).

At the end of the discussion, panelists will be pleased to take questions from the audience.

Alternative text for image: 'The Fennel Lectures' on a dark grey background.