Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric)

Music composed and performed by Gareth Jones

Laura and Catherine discuss the recent BSLS Winter Symposium on the theme of Extinctions and Rebellions, held at the University of Liverpool. If you weren’t able to make the event, we talk through the panels we attended (and between us we went to all of them!), the impact roundtable and our key takeaways from the day.

Episode resources (in order of appearance):

• Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard UP, 2011)
  
• Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (Dancing Cat Books, 2017)
  
• E. W. Cooke, Grotesque Animals (Longmans, 1872)
  
• Sam Gayton, The Last Zoo (Random House, 2019)
  

The Errant Muse exhibition - a collaboration between artist Charlotte Hodes and poet Prof Deryn Rees-Jones - is at the Victoria Museum and Gallery, Liverpool, running from 16th November 2019 until 28th March 2020, open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Further details can be found here.