Resilience Live Episode 6: What is the place of Geoheritage in the Anthropocene?
Date: February 29, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Christine Mortimer
Bionote: Dr Christine Mortimer currently works for Lancaster University (UK) at the Transnational Education Collaboration with Beijing Jiaotong University in China, as the Deputy Academic Dean. Prior to the current academic career, Chris spent 12 years working in manufacturing as a production manager across the UK, with particular involvement in cultural change management. Her specialist teaching areas are Organisational Behaviour within the international arena. Her current research interests are across two interconnecting strands. the first includes community leadership and community led disaster planning and resilience with emphasis on traditional knowledges. The second focuses on Pedagogical research particularly around decolonising the curriculum and humanities thinking in business management teaching and learning.
Presentation Abstract:
This webinar will be exploring the role of Geoheritage globally in the age of the Anthropocene. It will ask the challenging questions of the 21 st Century which are connected to limitless growth, the human and non-human need for Geoheritage to provide place, space and time, and Hannah Arendt’s ideas around thoughtlessness. These critical questions will be explored through a multi-disciplinary perspective, invoking not just science, but also the Arts and Humanities in how we chart a way forward that will lead to sustainable resilience in the face of current human made global challenges.