About the event
We marvel at the wonder of birds, but birds also help us wonder about the world itself. We learn from birds. We mimic them. They help us forecast the weather and remember when to harvest fruits and dig roots.
All over the world, stories about birds link us to cosmology, history, creative expression, and identity. Birds help us connect to our extended ecological selves. What would be lost if birds were to drop out of our experience?
This talk explores this question by telling the stories of how we think about the world with birds—how we fly with them in our imaginations and see them as omens of the future.
Speaker
Dr Felice Sea Wyndham is an ecological anthropologist, writer, and director of ethnoecology for the Ethno-ornithology World Atlas, a collaboration between BirdLife International and Oxford University. She is a Fulbright scholar and research affiliate with the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at Oxford, and resides in the rural seaside town of Pescadero in California. Her participatory research with Ayoreo and other Indigenous communities in Paraguay focusses on oral histories of landscape change and Indigenous ornithology, ecological knowledge, and data sovereignty.
Event information
- Tickets for this event are £5. Please note: tickets are non-refundable.
- You can attend this event in person at the Weston Library or watch the livestream.
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- You can also register to watch this event live via Zoom. You will receive instructions for joining the Zoom webinar in your confirmation email.
- All times listed are UK time.
- Please note: the event will only be available live; it will not be recorded.
