Presentation of Water Beings. From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis

11 October 2023, 18.30, Hollar Building, Room 215

Veronica Strang, cultural anthropologist and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, whose research explores the human relationship with water in her previous books The Meaning of  Water (2004) and Water: Nature and Culture (Reaktion, 2015) will offer a talk and presentation of her latest book Water Beings. From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis, a ground-breaking exploration of humanity connections to the broader web of aquatic life.

Looking to the vast human history of water worship, Water Beings is a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic—and how we might mend it.

Open to environmental humanities, political ecology and environmental anthropology and anyone interested in material-symbolic aspects of human-nature relationship, the presentation by Professor Strang will be an invaluable occasion to gather and create transdisciplinary bridges needed in the current environmental crisis.