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Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis (Final Conference)
May 22-24, 2025
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (and online)
Keynote speakers
Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh
‘Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis’ is an AHRC-funded networking project that explores innovative approaches to the fable genre. Since its launch in June 2023, we have held several fable-themed workshops in 2023 and 2024. This final conference at the University of Kent in 2025 builds on these earlier workshops, with the aim of bringing together, consolidating, and further developing the fable storytelling network. We are delighted to announce that Prof. Vinciane Despret, the philosopher of science and author of What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions (2016) and Susan McHugh, the author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Extinction and Genocide (2019) will be joining us in Canterbury, and that the conference will include a storytelling event at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury.
Registration
In-person attendees
3 Days £60 (Waged) /£40 (Student/Unnwaged) [Day Rate £25/£15] – Register
Online attendees
Free but registration is needed – Register
(Please note that not all the sessions are open to online attendees)
Some useful links
Directions: https://www.kent.ac.uk/locations/canterbury/directions
Guest B&B & accomodation (University of Kent): https://www.kent.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/holidays/bed-and-breakfast
Information about Canterbury: https://www.canterbury.co.uk/