Roundtable: Geographies of Heat

Please note: this event is for Durham University Staff members only.

Join us for a hybrid roundtable on the "Geographies of Heat", co-organised by the Geographies of Life research cluster and Weather, Climate, and Health research theme.

Abstract
As planetary temperatures rise, heat is no longer a passive environmental backdrop but an active agent shaping social, political, and material landscapes. This roundtable event moves beyond climatological data to discuss the uneven, embodied, and affective geographies of thermal experience. Presentations conceptualise heat as a dynamic and socially charged agent that reshapes territories, bodies, and ecosystems.

The Zoom link will be circulated closer to the event.

Please note that this event is free to attend.

This talk is co-organised by the Geographies of Life research cluster, led by Marijn Nieuwenhuis (Geography) and the Institute for Medical Humanities' Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme, co-led by: Jed Stevenson (Anthropology), Maximilian Hepach (Geography) and Angela Marques Filipe (Sociology)