Horizons Institute events
This page lists events hosted by the Horizons Institute and members of the research community. All events are open to anyone with an interest in the subject area.
Society, Loneliness and Ageing
Wednesday 1 October, 12–3.30pm, Worsley Dental Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds, and online
The Reimagine Ageing Interdisciplinary Network invites you to a seminar on Society, Loneliness and Ageing to mark International Day of Older Persons 2025, which this year has the theme Building belonging: Celebrating the power of our social connections.
This seminar brings together diverse speakers from the University of Leeds, Leeds Older People’s Forum and Leeds City Council to draw together learning on society, loneliness and ageing and highlight how research and practice can come together to benefit older adults.
Please note that this event is available online and in person. You can register for your preferred format on the following link.
Insight Series: Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research
Thursday 9 October, 11am–12.30pm, Online (Teams)
In this Insight session, Dr Kristin Oxley, Special Adviser at the Research Council of Norway, and Dr Alex Amey, Strategic Lead for Interdisciplinary Research – UKRI Talent and Skills, will shed light on the challenges associated with assessing interdisciplinary research in grant peer review panels and how organisations and funders can address the challenges associated with the interdisciplinary peer review processes.
Polycrisis Network Seminar: Aflatoxin’s Cartographies
Tuesday 14 October, 12 – 1pm, Online and on campus (room TBC)
Join us to hear from Noémi Tousignant an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL who will be presenting this seminar in person.
The talk explores how Senegal’s peanut trade was configured in the first half of the twentieth century to generate profit through mass smallholder production, minimal state or capital (re)investment, and unequal terms of exchange, including of ecological “capital” and harm. This cemented conditions that were, even after independence, ill-suited to practices of care that might mitigate aflatoxin’s formation and consumption. Aflatoxin was instead controlled at the border to meet export standards, leaving local exposures unmonitored and uncertain. The talk suggests that aflatoxin exposure in Senegal has been amplified at multiple points of uncertainty, extraction, and abandonment, discussing the relevance of the concept of polycrisis for writing its history.
Polycrisis Network seminar: Nondisciplinarity, Multielementalism, and More-than-Human Livingness
Thursday 23 October, 4 – 5pm, Online
The Polycrisis Network is pleased to invite you to a seminar with Professor Dimitris Papadopoulos, joining us online from University of California, Santa Cruz. talking about Nondisciplinarity, Multielementalism, and More-than-Human Livingness.
The tragedy of geo-ecology is that across nearly the entire political spectrum, its concerns have been deferred to an imagined future. Its resolution is either subsumed within the promise of a post-capitalist order or delegated to human ingenuity that will deliver a technofix. Or it is just erased altogether by a reductive and blatant humanism. In these conditions, is more-than-human thought and experience possible? What are the methodological and practical conditions that would allow us to ask the question of more-than-human livingness?