Dr Katharine Earnshaw is a Classicist who specialises in expanded readings and interpretations of Classical texts to look at present and future landscape decisions and agricultural ethics. Her work initiates a discourse with science, geography, philosophy, agricultural landscapes and practice, environmental ethics, and environmental approaches to literature.
With Katharine, Lauren looked at‘voice’, decision making and policy in landscape. A public research process saw Ancient and Classical texts such as Virgil’s‘Georgics’ (an agricultural poem) and folkloric stories of‘voiced’ animals discussed alongside contemporary rural voices, policy developments and imminent landscape decisions.
Katharine joins us across the Samhla opening weekend at Fàsach, Romesdal and the Staffin Dinosaur Museum to discuss this research which included a workshop with The School of Plural Futures and a new essay text published for the first time in the Samhla publication (available from ATLAS Arts office, Portree and at the exhibition launch 19th July, Glendale Community Hall).