Another fascinating presentation by Amber Horne on humans, animals, spectating, and tragedy. #humannature2023 HumanitiesUW English Literature UoW

"The butterfly is said to symbolize the soul", MA English student Lily Johnson discusses Critical Plant Studies 🌸 #humannature2023 #conference #plantstudies #katherinemansfield #dhlawrence University of Worcester English Literature UoW

Phd researcher @NFitzpatrick01 is presenting her paper on "Monstrosity, Fluidity, and Villainy in William Shakespeare's The Tempest" 🌟#humannature2023 #conference #Shakespeare #villains University of Worcester English Literature UoW

It has been so good to hear our past and present students speak so thoughtfully on human/nature and the pressing concerns this topic represents #humannature2023

"Don't you know that the heart can burn what the mind cannot break?" - Our friends Ula Skalmowska and Kasia Jaworska came all the way from Poland to present their paper on "Politics in Romeo i Julia, Warsaw 1968" 🇵🇱🙏 #humannature2023 University of Worcester English Literature UoW Uniwersytet Warszawski

Final round! Our lovely lecturers Dr Sharon Young Lucy Arnold and Dr Whitney Standlee are hosting the Plenary Panel! #humannature2023 #conference University of Worcester English Literature UoW

And just like that, our Human I Nature: Transplantation, Liminality and Territory Conference ends here. Massive thanks to all of our lovely academics and presenters for their wonderful research presentations! 🙂 #humannature2023 #conference University of Worcester @EngLitU

What a lovely day at HumanitiesUW #HumanNature2023 — and with such an impressive group of postgrad presentations too. Thanks again for the invitation to take part and join the conversation: it was a real delight.

Just wanted to say a HUGE thanks to everyone who attended and presented at this year's Human | Nature conference; it truly was a fascinating day. #humannature2023 University of Worcester 🌍💚 Also amazing to be international for the first time! Ula Uniwersytet Warszawski 🇵🇱

And we're off! The #hopefulcounternarratives🙂 conference has begun with our wonderful keynote speaker, Dr Kavita Bhanot, and her work "Literature Must Fall: Resisting Literary Supremacy."

The next panel has begun! "Materiality and Metaphor: with what hand would the moth write back?" by our very own James O'Toole is kickstarting our next round of talks! #hopefulcounternarratives🙂

The panel continues - MA student David Gaine discusses Douglas Sirk in the panels next presentation! #hopefulcounternarratives🙂

A fascinating exploration of the life of Alice Elgar by Wendy Hill in her talk "Alice Elgar - Out of the Shadows"! #hopefulcounternarratives🙂

We're back once again! Kicking off our afternoon session is the amazing Abbey Ballard with her keynote talk entitled "Ecological (Counter)Narratives: Nishnaabeg Aesthetics as Resistance within Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 'Plight'". #hopefulcounternarratives🙂

Kickstarting our next panel - Sidonie Sutton and her talk "Thinking Things with Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form & Emptiness"! #hopefulcounternarratives🙂

Our next panellist is MRES student John Davies-Mourby with his fascinating presentation entitled "Sociology with Hope". #hopefulcounternarratives🙂

Beginning our penultimate panel, we have Michalina Pietrzak with her talk entitled “Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor in Doctor Who: implications for the reconstruction of narratives of Britishness and Doctorhood”. #hopefulcounternarratives🙂

Our next speaker is Julia Matuszewska, with her presentation entitled “Unlocking Optimism”. #hopefulcounternarratives🙂

The third speaker on this panel is Agata Haida with her talk entitled “Cannibalism as a Metaphor: Inventing New Reality”. #hopefulcounternarratives🙂

And starting up our final panel of the day, we have April Girling and her presentation entitled ‘"Too much alas This Parallil I find/In the disordered passions of my mind”: Boundaries of hope in Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies’. #hopefulcounternarratives🙂