Professor Dewey Hall: Upcoming Open Lectures at the University of Bristol

Open Lecture

The Ecology of Hopkins’ ‘Remarkable Sunsets’ and Ruskin’s ‘Storm-Cloud’ Lectures (1883-1884): Krakatau, Weather and Climate Change

Audience: Bristol Academic Community, Centre for Environmental Humanities and School of Humanities

Date & time: 25 September 2024, 15:00-17:00

Location: Arts Complex (Room TBC)

Open Lecture

Marble as Material Form: Geology, Quarrying, and Provenance

Professor Hall will comment on the materiality of marble from the Attica Greece. The lecture will discuss the geology of the region, various quarries at Mount Pentelicus and Mount Hymettus, and issues regarding provenance derived from the marble-quarry relationship.

Primary audience: School of Humanities, School of Earth Sciences, Cabot Institute and Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT)

Date & time: 1 October 2024, 16:00

Location: Arts Complex (Room TBC)

The confirmed details of Professor Hall’s lectures and seminars will be listed on the University of Bristol’s Events page in due course.