Talks and seminars

Research interests Research projects Publications Talks and seminars Brief Biography Thanks and Feedback Dr Jenny Pickerill Department of Geography University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH j.pickerill (at) leicester.ac.uk

These are arranged by: invited talks, workshops, conference presentations Invited Talks 2011 ‘Supporting, researching and understanding eco-villages’. Realizing Utopia: Ecovillage Endeavors and Academic Approaches, Munich, October, 2011. Talk slides and paper available here. 2010 'Cyberprotest: innovation and resistance online' Nottingham University, October 'Sustaining activism: emotions, space and solidarities'? Exeter University, May ‘Low Impact Development in the City’ School of Geography, Oxford University, February 2009 ‘Connecting places: Activism, media and everyday political practices’. Lucerne, September ‘Valuing the environment differently’ Centre for Environmental Research (CERES), Leicester University, March 2008 ‘Anti-War Activism: New Media and Protest’ Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, September ‘United by a common cause? Muslim anti-war activism in Britain’, Peace Studies, Bradford University, February ‘Cyberprotest: A new politics?’ European Protest Movements, Prague, August 2007 ‘Walking side by side? Muslim anti-war activism in Britain’ Leicester CND, June ‘Making connections: What does it mean to be a Muslim anti-war activist?’, Department of Geography, Exeter University, May ‘What do we want Resistance Studies to do?’ Resistance Studies Network launch, Goteborg University, Sweden, June 2006 ‘New Social Movements, coalitions and religion: Muslim anti-war activists in Britain’ After New Social Movements workshop, Open University, April Notes towards autonomous geographies: creation, resistance and self-management as survival tactics’ Department of Geography, Swansea University, February (with Dr Paul Chatterton) 2005 ‘Radical politics on the net' Presented at De Montfort University, e-democracy workshop, November. Associated paper. ‘Finding common ground? Green imperialism and indigenous interests in Australia’ invited seminar presentation at Liverpool University, December. ‘Finding common ground: Environmentalists and indigenous issues in Australia’. School of Australian Indigenous Studies, James Cook University, July. ‘Indymedia and contested understandings of participation on-line' Presented at Bournemouth University, February. Workshops Organised workshop on ‘Building new collaborations in eco-housing research and practice: geography, architecture and environmental sciences’, (2011) where I presented a talk on ‘The culture of low-cost eco-housing’, Leicester, September. Photography exhibition on Eco-housing and Low Impact Developments. 2008. Exhibited in University of Leicester Library, Star and Shadow Social Centre (Newcastle) Pickerill, J. 2007. ‘Alliances and Fractures: The Anti-War movement in Britain’ Leicester Secular Society, Leicester, October Pickerill, J. 2007. ‘Walking side by side? Muslim anti-war activism in Britain’, Leicester CND, Leicester, June Pickerill, J. 2007. ‘Low Impact Living’ workshop as part of Spring into Action, Nottingham, April Pickerill, J. 2006. Social Centres Photography exhibition, The Common Place: Leeds Social Centre, Leeds, February, and Kebele Social Centre, Bristol, June Conference Presentations Pickerill, J, Brown, G, Kraftl, P and Upton, C. 2009. Whose transitions? Presented at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, Manchester, August Pickerill. J. 2009. Building liveable cities: urban Low Impact Developments as low carbon solutions? Presented at Urban Transitions/ Technological Transitions: Cities and Low Carbon Transitions workshop, Manchester, May Pickerill, J. 2008. Finding unity across difference? The alliances and fractures of the anti-war movement in Britain. Presented at Political Studies Association 58^th Annual Conference, 1-3 April, Swansea University. Pickerill, J. 2007. Finding common ground? Spaces of dialogue and the negotiation of Indigenous interests in environmental campaigns in Australia. Presented at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, August Pickerill, J. 2007. ‘Walking side by side? Muslim anti-war activism in Britain’ Presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, San Francisco, April Pickerill, J. 2006. ‘Living autonomously? Land, housing, food, and energy' Presented at RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, August. Pickerill, J. 2005. ‘Riding the waves of environmental activism: Participation and uneasy alliances in Western Australia' Ecopolitics Conference Griffith University, July. Pickerill, J and Chatterton, P 2005. ‘Autonomous Geographies: Activism and everyday life in the city' Critical Geographers Conference, Mexico City, January. Pickerill, J. 2004. ‘Interaction, participation, mobilisation: Inventive strategies in on-line activism' AOIR Annual Conference, Sussex University, September. Pickerill, J. 2004. 'Representing resistance: The practices and constructions of Indymedia', The Social and Cultural Movements Group, Edge Hill College, 2nd International Conference: Imaging Social Movements, July Pickerill, J. 2003. ‘Out in the open: Indymedia networks in Australia’ presented at iCS Symposium, Oxford University, September. Pickerill, J. 2003. ‘Distance and diversity: Saving Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia’ Proceedings of Ninth Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, April. Pickerill, J. 2002. ‘On-line independent media: history, successes and future directions’ presented at Students and Sustainability conference, Perth, July. Pickerill, J. 2001. ‘Strengthening cohesion, networking cells; environmental activists’ on-line’ Proceedings of Fibreculture conference, Melbourne, December. Pickerill, J. 2001. ‘From grassroots to global: Internet facilitated environmental activism’, presented at Globalisation: Live and Online conference, Adelaide, July. Pickerill, J. 1999. ‘Challenging boundaries? ICT use by environmentalists in Britain’, in Pickerill and Duckett (eds.) Proceedings of Radical British Environmentalism: Theory into practice, University of Newcastle, February. Pickerill, J. 1999. Environmental activism, the Internet and e-mail networks, presented at Institute of British Geographers conference, Leicester, January. Pickerill, J and Malthus, T, M. 1997. ‘An evaluation of the use of airborne remote sensing to detect water leaks from rural aqueducts’. Proceedings of Third International Conference of Airborne Remote Sensing, Copenhagen, July. Last updated: 8^th November 2011