Inaugural lecture by Professor Rebecca Priestley
In this lecture, Professor Rebecca Priestley will explore climate crisis, nuclear threats, and existential angst through writing, addressing future anxieties.
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End Times—Writing about climate change, nukes, and existential angst
Do you ever lie awake at night and worry about the climate crisis? Nuclear annihilation? The next pandemic? Professor Priestley’s career as a science writer has seen her engage with the Covid-19 pandemic, nuclear histories of New Zealand and Antarctica, climate change, and sea level rise. Through the disciplines of science communication, history of science, and creative non-fiction, her books, essays and academic articles respond to the big questions that keep her up at night.
In this inaugural lecture, Professor Priestley, from the School of Science in Society, will talk about these issues and share how writing has given her a way to explore and respond to her anxieties about the future.