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        Date: 2025-02-27 21:58:01+00:00
        From: Chiara Palladino <chiarapalladino1@gmail.com>
        Subject: Seminar Announcement: The Limits to Green Growth: Rematerialising UK’s Pathway to Net Zero

Join us for this upcoming event at the Material Digital Humanities seminars
2025:

The Limits to Green Growth: Rematerialising UK’s Pathway to Net Zero

Speaker: Dipali Mathur (Ulster University, Belfast)
Date: Monday March 10, 2025. 17:00–18:15 GMT. Online only.

The twin ‘green’ and ‘digital’ transitions have been embraced by the UK as
the roadmap to achieving Net Zero by 2050. However, the representation of
the ‘clean energy transition’ as the ‘sustainable’ and ‘inclusive’ pathway
to decarbonisation belies the material reality of the embedded toxic harms
in the physical infrastructures and technologies vital for powering this
seemingly ‘de-materialised’ carbon-free future. In reality, the green
energy transition is built upon the colonial legacy of offshoring the
‘dirty’ and extractive industries to poorer countries of the global south
where lax regulations, poor infrastructure and unstable governance enable
the continued exploitation of forced and child labour and the pollution of
the local environment. In demonstrating that the green and digital
transitions adopted by wealthy nations are in fact ‘energy blind’ and
‘materials blind’, my presentation will foreground the “green extractivism”
that underpins narratives and policies about a ‘green’ and ‘clean’
transition away from fossil fuels by asking question, “What counts as ‘good
policy’ apropos UK’s green transition?” Implicit in this inquiry is the
further critical framing of “whose version of ‘good’ does policy privilege,
and at whose expense?”

The Material Digital Humanities seminar is organised by Gabriel Bodard
(Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London, UK) and Chiara
Palladino (Department of Classics, Furman University, USA) in 2025. This
seminar series will present a range of discussions around materiality and
the research possibilities offered by digital methods and approaches.
Beyond just the value of digitization and computational research to the
study of material culture, we are especially interested in theoretical and
digital approaches to the question of materiality itself. We do not
restrict ourselves to any period of history or academic discipline, but
want to encourage interdisciplinarity and collaborative work, and the
valuable exchange of ideas enabled by cross-pollination of languages, areas
of history, geography and cultures.

All welcome.

This event is free to attend, but booking is required.
https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/limits-green-growth-rematerialising-uks-pathway-net-zero


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Chiara Palladino, PhD
Associate Professor of Classics
Chair, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
Shi Institute Faculty Affiliate
Office: Furman Hall 128A
How to pronounce my name <https://www.name-coach.com/chiara-palladino>
Preferred gender pronoun: she/her
Furman University


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