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Thursday 30 November
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5-7pm
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Herringham room A, Egham campus
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Talk: ‘Gentle protest: power and text’ and accompanying workshop
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This talk will explore examples of artistic, craft and community practice that engage in cultural forms of activism in a variety of media, including embroidery, performance and digital projections.
Discussion of global call to the UNFCCC to include cultural heritage, the arts and creative sectors in climate policy
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Professor Redell Olsen
Dr. Rebecca McCutcheon
Nicola Hewitt-George
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Friday 1 December
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2pm – 3.30pm
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Creative Thinking Room, Level 1, Shilling Building, Egham campus
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Talk: ‘The role of battery energy storage in UK energy UK transition’
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Decarbonisation, decentralisation, and digitalisation are three key themes that are currently driving investment, planning and operation of modern power grids. The uptake of renewable energy sources in the power grid has increased in several countries including the UK. Rooftop solar photovoltaics (PVs) are also on the rise in industrial and domestic use. However, the power generation profile of a rooftop solar PV is subject to intermittency due to its weather dependency. This has necessitated the installation of battery energy storage systems. In this talk, we will showcase a past industry project where we have demonstrated the value of battery energy storage as a solution designed to counter intermittent PV power generation and demand for energy in all weathers. We will also highlight a current research project that is supported through the Living Sustainably Catalyst of Royal Holloway, University of London. The talk will be accompanied by a laboratory tour of the Shilling Rooftop Solar Panel as well as a display of some of the ongoing research in the Power Systems Group of the Electronic Engineering Department. Colleagues and students welcome.
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Dr. Onyema Nduka
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Monday 4 December
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12.30 – 2pm
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Room 231, Horton Building, Egham campus
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Discussion: ‘Climate keywords: interrogating big data in the age of COP 28’
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You are invited to a lunchtime discussion in which Dr John Regan (Department of English) and Dr Simone Gigliotti (Department of History) will present, engage with and react to newly-released, cutting-edge corpus linguistic exploration technology in response to COP28. Students, colleagues, researchers and academics are all invited to come along, hear how this new suite of corpus linguistic tools works, and to try them for themselves. The digital tools showcased here are currently trained on the United Nations Corpus and are allowing us to discover new information about how this supra-national institution has conceptualised the climate in the past. At this meeting, we will think critically about the affordances of this technology, assess its merits and suggest new ways to use it in the age of climate crisis. Colleagues and Students welcome.
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Dr John Regan
Dr Simone Gigliotti
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Wednesday 6 December
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11am-12pm
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Windsor Building, Egham campus
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Presentation: Living Sustainably PhD Presentations from Current Doctoral Students
Bilal Ahmad
Joseph King Crystal Ahiable
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Current doctoral students will present their work. Staff and Students welcome.
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Wednesday 6 December
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12pm
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Meet under the clock tower at the Founder’s Building, Egham campus
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Campus walk: climate, food and foraging
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Walk and tour of campus led by food group and estates team.
Did you know that Royal Holloway sits on land that used to be farmed? The climate emergency affects every hectare of our planet, including our green and pleasant campus. One of the drivers of climate change is how land is used in food production. To increase our understanding of the links between Royal Holloway, the climate emergency and food production, a team of academics, students and members of the estates staff have been looking at the changing state of our campus. Colleagues and students welcome.
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Professor Judith Hawley
Jonathan Howe
Daniel Steel
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Wednesday 6 December
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6-8pm
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Shilling Auditorium, Egham campus
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Student sustainable film making challenge screening and awards ceremony
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Sustainable Film Festival screening. Colleagues and Students welcome.
Please note that this event has now been postponed
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Dr. Maeve O’Connell
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Thursday 7 December
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11am-12pm
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Meet at Founder’s Building, under the clock tower
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COP28 Campus Walk
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Due to industrial action, some people will find it difficult to travel Egham on Wednesday 6 December. We have decided to add an additional walk to make sure people have a chance to learn more about how the ecosystem of our campus has changed over time and is continuing to evolve.
The second walk will have more of an emphasis on the discoveries we have made in the University archives. Please note: this event will involve steps, uneven ground and possibly boggy conditions. Please consider whether you can manage the terrain and please wear appropriate footwear.
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Professor Judith Hawley
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Thursday 7 December
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12-3 pm
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Arboretum, Egham campus
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Planting of seed sculpture
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Come and join us to plant an artist seed sculpture from Orleans House Richmond in the Arboretum at Royal Holloway. Walk with focus on trees and their histories in the arboretum and beyond. Our links to other trees such as the famous Ankerwycke Yew. Poets and performers explore the relationship between environmental rights and climate justice. All welcome.
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Professor Judith Hawley
Jonathan Howe
Daniel Steel
Rebecca McCutcheon
Professor Redell Olsen
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Thursday 7 December
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7pm
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Boilerhouse tank room, Egham campus
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Event: ‘Contrails: A creative and critical response to the entanglement of the climate crisis, fossil fuels and the legacy of modernist literature'
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“The contrails left by aeroplanes last only hours. But they are now so widespread that their warming effect is greater than that of all the carbon dioxide emitted by aeroplanes that has accumulated in the atmosphere since the first flight of the Wright brothers" (Michael LePage, New Scientist, 2019).
At this event three members of the English Department at Royal Holloway will reflect on the entanglement of the climate crisis and the legacy of modernist literature. Finn Fordham will give a paper on petrochemicals and modernist literature. Will Montgomery and Redell Olsen will give a practice-based presentation that responds to current alarm about aircraft contrails (or vapour trails). Recent research shows that these cause more damage to the climate than CO2 emissions by aircraft. The presentation will combine a response to the sky-writing episode in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway with audio material built from recordings of jet engines.
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