What does it mean to write about disaster in a world shared with trees, beetles, moss, and microbes? On July 14 025, a group of students, scholars, and writers stepped into the forest—and onto the page—to explore how fieldwork becomes fiction, and how storytelling can carry multispecies voices through fire, threat, and transformation.
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David recently played host to an extraordinary two-day gathering that brought together some of the world’s most thoughtful voices in sustainability, peacebuilding, and intergenerational dialogue. Organised by the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES International Programme Office (IPO) at UWTSD, the inaugural Bridging Futures: Connecting Today’s Decisions to Tomorrow’s Needs took place at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on 16 July 2025. The event welcomed a diverse audience of policymakers, young leaders, Indigenous representatives, educators, and members of the public.
News from Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) The Volkswagen Foundation is funding ZOOGESTURES, a new project on interspecies learning and technical invention in early human evolution with 1.3 million euros over four years. The project is co-led by MESH researcher Dr. Shumon T. Hussain (Cologne), philosopher and anthropologist of technology Dr. Johannes Schick (Siegen) and cognitive primatologist Prof. Dr. Cat Hobaiter (St Andrews, UK).
Students across the EUniWell Alliance are invited to submit creative projects that explore the issue of marine litter in the Mediterranean using at least one of the following expressive approaches: Poetry and improvised performance, Visual Art or Data storytelling.
This book explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening the Earth today, through a postcolonial lens.
