A collaboration between me, @amsouth.bsky.social & Lesley Harrison, performed at @rethinkingfable.bsky.social (www.rethinking-fables.org.uk). Lesley & Alex weave together pieces by me and Alex and a poem by Lesley to create a new fable, "The Gannet and the Whale". www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55d...

Our final conference included a storytelling workshop called ‘Changing Fables’, led by Prof. Vinciane Despret. Here’s a brief report I’m excited to share. Enjoy 😊 -- heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in this memorable session. www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/changing-fab...

Excited to share that our ‘Spider fable’ collaboration was featured in this fantastic blog post! www.uc.edu/news/article... Huge thanks to Nathan Morehouse, Cass Lynch, Josie Turnbull and Lisa-Jean Moore for making this project happen. ‬ @arachnology.bsky.social ‪ @britishspiders.bsky.social

Spotted two majestic Kudus in Camden this Saturday, part of The Herds stampede. Incredible to see these creatures come to life & transform the street into a space of powerful storytelling. It was a priviledge to meet them & wishing them a safe journey north.

So happy to have been commissioned to write this sequence of poems for the @rethinkingfable.bsky.social project.

Check out Susan Richardson's powerful poem sequence ‘The Sack and the Selki’e — a moving exploration of how plastic pollution is affecting seals. Huge thanks again to Susan for writing this amazing piece for the ‘Rethinking Fables’ project. @susanrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/vQ1wfvlUcWU

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

I am delighted to announce that the recording of Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh's keynote speeches at our final conference are now available from this site: www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/final-confer... Please have a look and enjoy! 😊

Just wrapped 3 incredible days at the Rethinking Fables final conference! Huge thanks to our amazing speakers, attendees & performers who made this truly unforgettable. So many fabulous things happened during this conference 😊

Suniti Namjoshi kindly designed a fable-writing exercise for our project. Can you take up the challenge? www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/challenge-su...

The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference is happening now! Please join us if you can. Also please check out the online resources/exhibition (just launched) www.rethinking-fables.org.uk

The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference kicks off tomorrow. Big thanks to the speakers — really excited to meet you soon! research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Absolutely thrilled that next Thursday I'll be speaking at the Rethinking Fables conference and sharing what I've learned from reading Ernest Thompson Seton's journals. This is brand new research, so I'm excited to share it properly for the first time.

Tickets are now available for the Rethinking Fables storytelling event on May 24, 2025 (6–8pm), featuring Indian fabulist Suniti Namjoshi, a fable-in-music performance, and other fables. If you're near Canterbury, come along and spread the word. thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/rethi...

A great conversation between Kaori Nagai and Suniti Namjoshi on fabulating birds and other animals - "Birds Talk Back" @rethinkingfable.bsky.social research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Registration is still open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22–24, 2025, U of Kent & online), featuring keynote speakers Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh. We’d love for you to join us 😊 Please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Please take a look at my conversation with the fabulist Suniti Namjoshi, ‘Birds Talk Back’. Your thoughts and comments are most welcome! 😊 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

The wonderful @rethinkingfable.bsky.social made this lovely video of the workshop on Fable Writing. youtu.be/ouhOByeS6hw I had a stimulating time preparing for it and then facilitating it. Thank you to the participants for trusting their wonderful stories to this process of inquiry. Keep writing ✍🏽

There's also still time to register to attend the Rethinking Fables Conference in-person or online (22-24 May, University of Kent, Canterbury) which includes keynotes by Susan McHugh, and Vinciane Despret @rethinkingfable.bsky.social 🐰🦉🐥 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Thanks, Susan! We are very much looking forward to the reading of your piece at our storytelling event! 😊 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

We are delighted to announce that Suniti Namjoshi, the distinguished fabulist and author of The Blue Donkey Fables (1988), Aesop the Fox (2018) and many other fables, will be taking part in the event. Please visit research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Call for Contributions, Symposium: "Foraging Futures: Human-Environment Relations in a Changing World" October 3–7, 2025 | Triglav National Park, Slovenia foraging.work/symposium/

We have been asked to spread the word about the upcoming Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA PEC) in Bologna: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds." Event page: eisa-net.org/pec-2025/ #rccnews #conference #green #war #military #envhum

Registration is open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22-24, 2025: University of Kent, Canterbury UK & online) with Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Please spread the word – and we'd be delighted if you can join us. research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

These are dark & disconcerting times for the environment and our future. I am reposting our 'Call for Fables'. Drop us a line if you can think of a fable that speaks to you at this moment (& please try writing a fable yourself, to make sense of what’s happening) research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

The recordings of the 'AI and Other Scientific Fables' symposium (26 July 2024) are now available.Thanks so much again to Prof Chris Danta and #ANU School of #Cybernetics for organising this in collaboration with us! @English_ANU 🙂 cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2024/07/2…

A huge thank you to everyone who joined 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent!' and made it such a rewarding session. Let’s keep the conversation going! 🌿 Special thanks to Shreyasi Sharma for designing this fantastic workshop. 🙂

A huge thank you to everyone who joined 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent!' and made it such a rewarding session. Let’s keep the conversation going! 🌿 Special thanks to @itswhilereading for designing this fantastic workshop. 🙂

The recordings of the 'AI and Other Scientific Fables' symposium (26 July 2024) are now available. cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2024/07... Thanks so much again to Prof Chris Danta and #ANU School of #Cybernetics for organising this in collaboration with us! 😊

I’m thrilled with the final product of this multimedia essay we made on the critically endangered regent honeyeater. It can’t be viewed on a phone but if you’re near a big screen, check it out: www.curatorium.au/taja-journal...

It’s early November & if you have been to a mall/store, you’ve seen Christmas is nearly here. So time to start thinking about gifts. Why not buy that animal lover or medieval fan in your life the perfect gift: A copy of The Medieval Pig! boydellandbrewer.com/978183765168... (Also at online stores)

Amazing speakers. Do wait for Dr. Cass Lynch, who spent half her allotted time talking about colonialism/indigenous Australians like herself, and then described her ongoing effort to relocate 100 or so spiders who can live 50 years and over whose tunnels some govt. agency wants to make a footpath.

We are thrilled to share our CFP for our final conference (May 22-24, 2025) with Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Proposals due by Dec 15. Please spread the word. 🙂🐦 please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

If you live in or around Kent, please join our in-person creative writing workshop 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent' (Nov 20, 2024, 2-4pm, U of Kent), with Shreyasi Sharma as our facilitator. 🌿For further details, please visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-en...

I received an interesting call for fables from the project 'Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis'. Call is attached. The general website for the project is research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f... but I don't think the call itself is on there. #animalhist #envhum

Call for Papers – Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis May 22-24, 2025 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (and online) Deadline: 15 December 2024 niche-canada.org/2024/09/26/c... #envhist #envhum #animalhistory

If you live in or around Kent, please join our in-person creative writing workshop 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent' (Nov 20, 2024, 2-4pm, U of Kent), with @itswhilereading as our facilitator. 🌿For further details, please visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-envi…

Thanks for attending the 'Animal Languages' workshop and for making it such an engaging session. Special thanks to Leonie Cornips🐄, Ana M. Ochoa 🐳, and Andrea Gutierrez 🦜🐘 for their amazing papers. The idea of 'animal language' feels very different after this workshop. 🐁

'Animal Languages' online workshop happening this friday! Please join us. 🙂 🐁 x.com/rethinkingfabl…

Fascinated by 'animal languages'? Please join our online workshop on Oct 25, 2024, 3-5pm (UK time), featuring Leonie Cornips🐄, Ana M. Ochoa,🕊️ and Andrea Gutierrez🦜🐘, with Christiane Bongartz as a facilitator. All welcome. To register please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

Delighted to host a talk by Prof Chris Danta (School of Cybernetics, Australia National University) in collaboration with the @UnikentICCI: ‘Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation’ (Oct 2nd, 2pm in Kennedy SR2, @UniKent)🙂

We are thrilled to share our CFP for our final conference (May 22-24, 2025) with Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Proposals due by Dec 15. Please spread the word. 🙂🐦 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

We just finished 'Global Fables'. 🌺Huge thanks to all the speakers for their fantastic papers and to everyone who participated. I learned so much & looking forward to future collaborations!

Happening soon 🙂 x.com/rethinkingfabl…

Our last session is 'Future Global Fables' (Sep 13, 2-4 pm, UK time; online) featuring Gro Birgit Ween, Carrie Dohe🐝, scientic fairy tales (@HadarElyashiv, @NederCami) & 'Future Fables' (Cameo Marlatt, @guillemrubio & Shawn Bodden). All welcome research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

Join us again tomorrow at 9:45 am UK time for Prof. Beatrice Gründler & the 'Continuity and Circulation of Fables in the Circum-Mediterranean' session, chaired by @Anthro_ChrisL, featuring @AmericanMaghreb @MariagraziaPor3 & Heidi Bayoumy All welcome! research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

We just finished Day 1 of ‘Global Fables’ with fantastic papers and discussions. Many thanks to everyone who joined us!🙂

The session starting soon. Hope to see you there 🙂 x.com/rethinkingfabl…

Delighted to host a talk by artist Josie Rae Turnbull, ‘The Fabled Fortunes of a Fish: Sunset of the Arowana Industry’ (September 12, 5-6 pm UK time, online), as part of our ‘Global Fables’ symposium. Please join us and help spread the word! . research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…