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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Pacific Institute,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please share this seminar notice with your members.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks – Rachel<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#A6A6A6">Guest Lecture and Film Screening<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr Ruth Brennan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Trinity College, Dublin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wednesday 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">12:30-1:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Seminar Room, Frank Fenner Building (141), Linnaeus Way, Canberra ACT 2601<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Windows of opportunity: how the arts, humanities and social sciences can shape and enhance environmental policy</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Drawing on my four art-science collaborations between 2011 and 2016 with visual artist and film-maker Stephen Hurrel, I will talk about how the
arts, humanities and social sciences can help to open up reflective and less threatening spaces for dialogue between policy makers, those who live and work with the marine environment, and the general public.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">Positioned at the interface of science, policy and the arts, Dr Ruth Brennan’s work as a marine social scientist is highly interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary. Dr Brennan
uses innovative visual, participatory and qualitative methodologies to explore how the articulation of culturally-embedded relationships between people and place can facilitate engagement with the related policy environment.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">Dr Brennan’s research offers insights into different ways in which marine spaces are conceptualised by users, managers and human-environment interactions, how this relates
to marine resource governance and, in particular, what it means for community engagement.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lecture will be followed by a screening of Ruth Brennan and Stephen Hurrel’s film ‘Clyde Connections’. All welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Clyde Reflections</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> - Hurrel and Brennan (2014)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Body"><i><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Clyde Reflections</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> is a meditative, cinematic experience based on the marine environment of the Firth of Clyde on the
west coast of Scotland. It was funded by the 2013 Imagining Natural Scotland initiative which was created to 'explore the interplay between the natural world and its representation, and promote deep collaboration and knowledge exchange between the creative
and scientific sectors.’ </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Produced by artist Stephen Hurrel and social ecologist Ruth Brennan, the film features underwater and microscopic footage, combined with voice recordings of seven people who have a close relationship
with, or specialist understanding of, the Firth of Clyde. These include a retired fisherman, a marine biologist, a diver, a marine conservationist, a spiritual leader and a physical oceanographer.
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Brennan conducted unstructured interviews around a series of themes with these individuals, recorded by Hurrel, with a focus on what the individuals perceived to be ‘natural</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">’
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and ‘not natural</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">’
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">in the Firth of Clyde. Led by Hurrel, both worked together to combine the documentary-style approach of the interview stage with a more ambient, meditative and poetic rendering of the material.
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">By engaging with people who connect deeply with their environment,
<i>Clyde Reflections</i> presents a multi-perspective representation of a particular marine area to challenge a simplistic representation of this environment. The film provides a creative example of how 'landscape' is not a fixed entity, or separate from people,
but is dynamic in terms of its socio-ecological properties as well as how it can be perceived.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The objective<i> of Clyde Reflections
</i>is to open up space for contemplation by reflecting the unfixed, shifting nature of relationships between people and place.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The film can be viewed online at
</span><a href="http://vimeo.com/89793693"><span class="Hyperlink0"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://vimeo.com/89793693</span></span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. It was installed at the Gallery of Modern Art,
Glasgow, from May-July 2015.</span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Biographies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stephen Hurrel works with video, sound, sculpture and text to explore relationships between people and places. His artworks combine art, science and digital media to explore and record interactions
and tensions between nature and contemporary society. They draw our attention to current ecological issues such as the impact of industry on the natural environment. As well as making art for the gallery, Hurrel produces commissioned artworks responding to
specific environments such as rural landscapes and marine environments.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr Ruth Brennan is a marine social scientist based in the Centre for Environmental Humanities, Trinity College Dublin. She uses innovative visual and participatory
qualitative methodologies to explore how the articulation of culturally-embedded relationships between people and place can facilitate engagement with the related policy environment. Positioned at the interface of science, policy and the arts, Ruth’s work
is highly interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary. Her research offers insights into different ways in which marine spaces are conceptualised by users, managers and human-environment interactions, how this relates to marine resource governance and, in particular,
what it means for community engagement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Rachel England | Australian National University</b><br>
</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt">PhD Scholar | Fenner School of Environment & Society<br>
ANU College of Science<br>
m 0411 536 585<br>
e <a href="mailto:rachel.england@anu.edu.au"><span style="color:blue">rachel.england@anu.edu.au</span></a><br>
Building 141, Linnaeus Way, Canberra ACT 2601<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt">+ Social Media Editor for
<i>Global Sustainability </i>journal </span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt">+ Environmental Scientist with
<i>Alluvium Consulting Australia </i></span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://www.alluvium.com.au/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">http://www.alluvium.com.au</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.0pt">I acknowledge that I was born and raised on Wiradjuri country, and now live and work on Ngunnawal country, and I pay respect to all Elders, past and present.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://anu-au.academia.edu/RachelEngland"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:blue">Academia</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.0pt"> |
</span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/rachel-england"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:blue">ANU Profile</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.0pt"> |
</span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-england-22671630?trk=hp-identity-photo"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:blue">LinkedIn</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.0pt"> |
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</span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachel_England"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:blue">ResearchGate</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.0pt"> |
</span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/RachelEngland27"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:blue">Twitter</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.0pt">Skype: rachel.england<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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