Morecambe Bay Milieux ~ Aqueous Futures conference is a three-day event consisting of a conference and a symposium.
Morecambe Milieux will host two days of panel conversations, artistic showcases and outdoor experiences at the Midland Hotel and on the Bay itself between 6th and 7th September 2023.
The Aqueous Futures symposium will take place on Friday 8th and the Aqueous Futures symposium will be open from Wednesday 9 am-to Friday at 5 pm.
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Wednesday 6th September |
| 9.00-9.30 |
Arrival and coffee, with foraged botanical teas from Heysham, Morecambe Bay prepared by visual artist Sam Pickett |
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| 9.30-10.00 |
Welcome address |
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Dr Louise Carver and Professor Charlie Gere, Future Places Centre, Lancaster University
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| 10.00- 11.15 |
Panel 1– Situated perspectives in the more-than-human, Morecambe Bay. |
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Dr. Catherine Oliver, Lancaster University |
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Debbie Yare, Independent artist |
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Dr. Karen Lloyd, Lancaster University |
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11.15-11.30 |
Coffee and Tea |
| 11.30- 12.45 |
Panel 2– Processual ways of knowing and interstitial wetlands |
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Dr. Tilman Hertz, Stockholm Resilience Centre |
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Dr. Kate Judith, University of Southern Queensland (online) |
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Thomas Pausz, University of Iceland. |
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| 12.45- 14.00 |
Vegetarian buffet lunch for all delegates provided at the Midland |
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| 14.00-14.40 |
Keynote — Daisy Hildyard
Author of Emergency, The Second Body and Hunters in the Snow and historian of science. |
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| 14.45- 16.00 |
Panel 3 —Science for the Anthropocene: Knowledge Practices for an Upstream Consciousness |
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Professor David Tyfield, Lancaster University |
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Dr Laura Harrington, Independent Artist |
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Mandy Knott, Natural England. |
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| 16.00- 16.15 |
Coffee and Tea. |
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| 16.15-17.30 |
Panel 4 – Encounters in the ebb and flow. Crossings and contact zones |
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Dr. Aurora Fredriksen, Manchester University |
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Annabel Plumeridge North West Inshore Fisheries Authority |
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Sonia Levy, Independent Artist |
| 18.00-18.40 |
River Tours: The Lune.
Performance as part of the Aqueous Futures exhibition
Tapestry by The Sewing Café, text by Claire Dean and performance by Orla Cottingham, presented by Lancaster Arts |
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Thursday 7th September |
| 10.30-14.00 |
Artist lead ‘barefoot method’ Cross Bay Walk Arnside to Grange* |
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Michael Wilson, The King’s Guide to the Sands |
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Led by artists Debbie Yare, Laura Harrington and Jamie Allen |
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| 14.00-15.00 |
BYO lunch on the conference bus |
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| 15.00-16.15 |
Panel 5- Demarcating Disappearing Territory. Making New Land |
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Dr. Katherine Sammler, University of Twente |
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The Sunderland Point Community Association
Stephen Bennett, Practicing Visual Artist and Co-Head of the Policy Lab |
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| 16.15-16.30 |
Coffee and Tea. |
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| 16.30-17.15 |
Panel 6— Emplaced Resilience and Coastal Communities |
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Maddi Nicholson, Art Gene |
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Dr. Elizabeth Barron, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
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Dr. Serena Pollastri, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts |
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| 17.15-17.45 |
Round-up and Plenary |
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*Conference bus leaves from the Midland Hotel at 9.50 AM to Arnside where the walk begins |