Wednesday 18th April 2012 - 5.00pm
Daro Montag
In this lecture Daro will talk about the role of art in relation to the unfolding global crises. By showing the relationships between the collapsing economy, our dependency on fossil fuel and the impact our growing population has on the environment, a question is posed about the responsibility of culture... more

Thursday 15th March 2012 - 5.30pm
Paul Kingsnorth
RANE, in collaboration with the Department of Writing are pleased to welcome back author, poet and novelist, Paul Kingsnorth – one of the UK’s most original, and controversial writers on the environment. His first book, One No, Many Yeses (2003), explored the rise of the global resistance movement. In 2008, his polemic travelogue Real England: The Battle against the Bland was described in the Independent as “a watershed study, a crucially important book”. Paul is also co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project.... more
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Wednesday 9th November 2011 - 2pm
Emily Penn
Pangaea Explorations’ programme director, Emily Penn, will talk about the problem of plastics and their environmental impact. Her previous projects have included working with Sustainable Coastlines to implement community based cleanup projects that removed eight shipping containers of rubbish from remote islands in the South Pacific; collaborating with 5 Gyres, on the first comprehensive study of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans; and leading expeditions in the Pacific to study coral reef health, micro-plastics and eutrophication... more
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Thursday 3rd March 2011 - 11am
Aviva Rahmani
Ecological artist Aviva Rahmani’s art work has reflected environmental and social concerns throughout her forty-year career. She will talk about her previous projects, which range from complete landscape restorations to museum venues, as well as her current new media project which concerns the impact of extractive industries and climate change... more

Wednesday 2nd March 2011 - 7pm
@ Lecture Theatre A, Daphne du Maurier Building, Tremough Campus
Meltdown: The next phase of the global financial crash
Dr Mike Haywood will talk about what happens in a financial meltdown and why it cannot be prevented; why the global debt mountain, peak oil and climate change are all interconnected; and what must be done to prevent a future crisis. The talk will be followed by a panel session with Dr Tony Batchelor, Managing Director, Geoscience Ltd and Julian Jenkins, Senior Partner, Clydesdale Bank... more
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Thursday 20th January 2011 - 4pm to 9pm
@ Newlyn Art Gallery
Seachange: Voyages & Cultural Transformation
To mark the close of the UNFOLD exhibition at Newlyn, artists Daro Montag, Nick Edwards and Siôn Parkinson will discuss notions of ‘voyage’ in terms of artistic and scientific discovery, exploration and creation. This event will also include the launch of ShortCourse/UK and Film Screenings of Cape Farewell expeditions from 2006 & 2010... lecture podcasts

Friday 26th November 2010 - 6.30pm
@ Newlyn Art Gallery
David Buckland & Daro Montag
As part of the opening of the UNFOLD exhibition at Newlyn Art Gallery, David Buckland, Unfold co-curator and Director of Cape Farewell will be in conversation with Daro Montag, artist and Course Leader MA Art & Environment at University College Falmouth...audio podcast

Thursday 11th November 2010 - 2pm
Sam Bower
Sam Bower is the Founding Executive Director of greenmuseum.org, an online museum of environmental art. Sam will ask: What is art for? Is our current cultural infrastructure really serving the Earth and our communities; and what can we learn from people who have lived over a thousand years in the same place?... more
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Tuesday 8th June 2010 - 6pm
Jan van Boeckel
Artist, anthropologist and filmmaker Jan van Boeckel will explore how art can encourage us to seek a ‘deep identification’ in nature. Jan’s talk, entitled A Point of No Return, will try to formulate some pedagogical implications for encouraging an attitude of radical amazement and vulnerability in arts-based environmental education.... more
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Monday 29th March 2010 - 6pm
Beth Carruthers
Beth Carruthers is an artist, writer and teacher. As an independent curator and consultant in Arts & Sustainability she writes, publishes and lectures internationally, developing arts-based programmes with a focus on ethics and the role of the aesthetic in engendering environmental values.... more
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Monday 8th March 2010 - 6pm
F. David Peat
Author and theoretical physicist F. David Peat's writing has covered many subjects from quantum theory and chaos theory, to synchronicity and Native American culture, including a biography of fellow collaborator David Bohm. As founder of The Pari Center for New Learning, in Italy, he has had a long-term and on-going involvement in discussions between art and science... more
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Monday 8th February 2010 - 6pm
@ Tremough Campus
Paul Kingsnorth
Author and poet Paul Kingsnorth writes about the links between people and places, the political and the personal. From torture in the highlands of New Guinea to tree-sitting in Hampshire. Named as one of Britain's 'top ten troublemakers' by the New Statesman magazine in 2001, Paul attempts to tease out links between who and where we are, and where our direction of travel is likely to take us... more
Please Note: This lecture is in collaboration with MA Professional Writing at UCF and the Exeter University Department of English and will take place at the Chapel Lecture Theatre on our Tremough Campus, Penryn.
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Monday 7th December 2009 - 6pm
Adriane Colburn
San Francisco based artist Adriane Colburn’s constructed cartographic installations comprise layers of hand cut paper, light and shadow. Her work references the complex constructs that support our modern society but that are largely removed from our consciousness. more

Monday 30th November 2009 - 6pm
Daro Montag
Artist and RANE research leader Daro Montag will talk about his involvement in an expedition to the Andes and Amazon rainforests in Peru last summer, organised by Cape Farewell, and its resulting projects. Using creativity to innovate, the organization engage artists for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating on a human scale the urgency of the global climate challenge. more
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Monday 12th October 2009 - 6pm
Shai Zakai
Multi-media artist Shai Zakai, founder and director of the Israeli Forum for Ecological Art, and perhaps best known for her seminal work Concrete Creek, will talk about her current projects. Zakai describes her work as a mediation between the individual, the place and the decision-makers. more
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Monday 11th May 2009 - 6pm
Ella Gibbs & Amy Plant
London based artists Ella Gibbs and Amy Plant work on a wide range of projects that extend from small grass roots initiatives to large scale public arts commissions, both in the UK and internationally. Ella & Amy will discuss their collaborative practice Pilot Publishing and current project Energy Café. more
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Monday 20th April 2009 - 6pm
Linda Weintraub
Curator, educator, artist, and author Linda Weintraub will explore art’s vital role in bringing language and social values into alignment with sustainable practice. How can contemporary artists convey the far-reaching implications of today’s environmental movement? more

Monday 9th March 2009 - 6pm
@ Tremough Campus
Andrej Zdravic
Slovenian film and sound artist Andrej Zdravic has lived and worked across the US and Europe. Inspired by music and nature, he has created over 30 independent films focusing on the energies and spiritual aspects of natural phenomena. This screeing of his film Riverglass will be followed by a short Q&A. more Please Note: This film screening will take place at the newly renovated Chapel Lecture Theatre on our Tremough Campus, Penryn.
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Wednesday 28th May 2008 - 6pm
Lynne Hull
Colorado artist Lynne Hull has pioneered ‘trans-species’ art, creating sculpture installations as wildlife habitat enhancement, and eco-atonement for human impact. She works from the belief that artists' creativity can be effectively applied to the urgent environmental crisis we face today. more
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Monday 28th April 2008 - 6pm
Alastair Fuad-Luke / slowLab
Sustainable design facilitator, lecturer & writer Alastair Fuad-Luke talks about his evolving conversation around ‘slow design’ and his work with Carolyn Strauss of NYC’s slowLab, an organisation taking a curatorial role to reveal diverse creativity around the concept of ‘positive slowness by design'. more
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Monday 4th February 2008 - 6pm
Kate Foster / BioGeoGraphies
BioGeoGraphies is a collaborative project that teases out the entangled geographies binding together people, animals and objects. Artist Kate Foster will talk about her work with the zoological specimens of scientific collections and creating conversation pieces within interdisciplinary spaces. more
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Monday 17th December 2007 - 6pm
Daro Montag / Robin Hawes
To celebrate the end of a successful year at RANE, artists Daro Montag and Robin Hawes will be giving short presentations about their respective research projects at an informal get-together marking the launch of two new books published by the research cluster.
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Friday 30th November 2007 - 10am
David Buckland / Cape Farewell
Artist David Buckland will talk about ‘Cape Farewell’ which has lead three expeditions to the High Arctic, the frontline of climate change. The project is widely acknowledged as the most significant sustained artistic response to climate change anywhere in the world. more
Note: This lecture will take place at our Tremough Campus, Media Centre Cinema. Due to limited space pre-booking is essential.

Monday 19th November 2007 - 6pm
Patricia Watts
Founder of ecoartspace.org and chief curator at the Sonoma County Museum in Northern California, Patricia Watts will look at strategies employed by artists to inspire a more sustainable relationship with the natural world and ask the question: How green is ecoart? more

Monday 22nd October 2007 - 6pm
Tim Collins & Reiko Goto
As artists, educators and theorists Tim Collins' & Reiko Goto's interests include cultural issues of ecological restoration and the artists’ role in social and environmental change. Their talk is entitled PEOPLE, PLACES, and THINGS; the atrists' relationship to the material world. more

Monday 23rd April 2007 - 6pm
John Jordan
As an artist, activist and co-founder of Reclaim the Streets, Jordan’s work merges the imagination of art and the social engagement of politics. He will talk about applying creativity to protest cultures, radical ecology and direct action movements. more

Monday 26th March 2007 - 6pm
Jan van Boeckel
As an artist, anthropologist and filmmaker whose work concerns the worldviews and environmental philosophies of indigenous peoples, Jan will talk about coping with ecological crisis and using art as a means to connect to a ‘more-than-human’ world. more

Monday 12th February
& Monday 12th March 2007 - 6pm
Daro Montag
In the first of two lectures, Daro Montag, RANE research cluster leader, will talk about his art practice and using the creative potential of organic materials and natural events to generate images. This will be followed on March 12th by a presentation and open discussion on wider environmental concerns. more

Monday 22nd January 2007 - 6pm
Christine Borland
Artist and former Turner Prize nominee Christine Borland's work aims to shed light on the often fragile junction between the body and the self. She will be talking about her practice and the collaborative processes used in making her work. more

Monday 27th November 2006 - 6pm
Georg Dietzler
As a culturally and politically engaged artist and curator, Georg Dietzler’s sculptural work explores the fascinating re-generative properties of the natural world, creating experimental installations for bio-remediation of contaminated soil. more

Monday 9th October 2006 - 6pm
Basia Irland
As a sculptor, installation artist, book artist and poet, Basia Irland’s work has focused on international water issues for the past thirty years. She will talk about embracing the notion of the artist as field researcher and activist. more

Monday 3rd April 2006 - 6pm
Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison
For over 35 years the Harrisons have presented visions of sustainability and survival. Focusing on a number of their artistic projects, this lecture will address issues of climate change. more

Monday 13th March 2006 - 6pm
Oron Catts
As the founder and artistic director of SymbioticA, the Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory at the University of Western Australia, Oron will discuss exploring the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. more

Monday 13th February 2006 - 6pm
Stephen Turner
As an artist whose work over the last ten years has placed natural processes and material at the heart of a creative method that explores our relationship with time and cycles of change, Stephen will offer a critique of an urban and homogenised society that blinds us to the adverse impact we have upon the environment. more

Monday 21st November 2005 - 6pm
Edwina fitzPatrick
Edwina's artwork is developed for both specific public sites, and for gallery exhibition; and often involves collaboration. The talk will compare the way Edwina engages with these sited and trans-located practices; and how a green environment might be transposed to an urban setting. more