A collaboration between me, @amsouth.bsky.social & Lesley Harrison, performed at @rethinkingfable.bsky.social (www.rethinking-fables.org.uk). Lesley & Alex weave together pieces by me and Alex and a poem by Lesley to create a new fable, "The Gannet and the Whale". www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55d...

The Gannet and the Whale (May 24, 2025, Rethinking Fables)

YouTube video by Kaori Nagai

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Our final conference included a storytelling workshop called ‘Changing Fables’, led by Prof. Vinciane Despret. Here’s a brief report I’m excited to share. Enjoy 😊 -- heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in this memorable session. www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/changing-fab...

Excited to share that our ‘Spider fable’ collaboration was featured in this fantastic blog post! www.uc.edu/news/article... Huge thanks to Nathan Morehouse, Cass Lynch, Josie Turnbull and Lisa-Jean Moore for making this project happen. ‬ @arachnology.bsky.social ‪ @britishspiders.bsky.social

There once was a biologist who talked to spiders …

UC biologist and spider expert Nathan Morehouse helped a writing collaboration at Kent University explore our common ground with these eight-legged creatures that fascinate us.

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Spotted two majestic Kudus in Camden this Saturday, part of The Herds stampede. Incredible to see these creatures come to life & transform the street into a space of powerful storytelling. It was a priviledge to meet them & wishing them a safe journey north.

So happy to have been commissioned to write this sequence of poems for the @rethinkingfable.bsky.social project.

Rethinking Fables@rethinkingfable.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out Susan Richardson's powerful poem sequence ‘The Sack and the Selki’e — a moving exploration of how plastic pollution is affecting seals. Huge thanks again to Susan for writing this amazing piece for the ‘Rethinking Fables’ project. @susanrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/vQ1wfvlUcWU

Check out Susan Richardson's powerful poem sequence ‘The Sack and the Selki’e — a moving exploration of how plastic pollution is affecting seals. Huge thanks again to Susan for writing this amazing piece for the ‘Rethinking Fables’ project. @susanrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/vQ1wfvlUcWU

Susan Richardson, The Sack and the Selkie

YouTube video by Kaori Nagai

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Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

I am delighted to announce that the recording of Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh's keynote speeches at our final conference are now available from this site: www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/final-confer... Please have a look and enjoy! 😊

Just wrapped 3 incredible days at the Rethinking Fables final conference! Huge thanks to our amazing speakers, attendees & performers who made this truly unforgettable. So many fabulous things happened during this conference 😊

Suniti Namjoshi kindly designed a fable-writing exercise for our project. Can you take up the challenge? www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/challenge-su...

The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference is happening now! Please join us if you can. Also please check out the online resources/exhibition (just launched) www.rethinking-fables.org.uk

The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference kicks off tomorrow. Big thanks to the speakers — really excited to meet you soon! research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Absolutely thrilled that next Thursday I'll be speaking at the Rethinking Fables conference and sharing what I've learned from reading Ernest Thompson Seton's journals. This is brand new research, so I'm excited to share it properly for the first time.

Rethinking Fables@rethinkingfable.bsky.social · last yr.

Registration is still open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22–24, 2025, U of Kent & online), featuring keynote speakers Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh. We’d love for you to join us 😊 Please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Tickets are now available for the Rethinking Fables storytelling event on May 24, 2025 (6–8pm), featuring Indian fabulist Suniti Namjoshi, a fable-in-music performance, and other fables. If you're near Canterbury, come along and spread the word. thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/rethi...

Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis: A Storytelling Event - Gulbenkian

We are delighted that renowned Indian fabulist Suniti Namjoshi will be among our storytellers, alongside a fable-in-music collaboration by Scottish poet Lesley Harrison and Zoomusicologists Alex South...

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If the Camel Could Speak – Reflections on Trade, Fables, and Global Connections

The introduction to the volume "Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World" opens with a reference to an Aesop’s fable about a merchant and his camel, capturing the essence of human-animal relat...

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A great conversation between Kaori Nagai and Suniti Namjoshi on fabulating birds and other animals - "Birds Talk Back" @rethinkingfable.bsky.social research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Registration is still open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22–24, 2025, U of Kent & online), featuring keynote speakers Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh. We’d love for you to join us 😊 Please visit: research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Please take a look at my conversation with the fabulist Suniti Namjoshi, ‘Birds Talk Back’. Your thoughts and comments are most welcome! 😊 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

The wonderful @rethinkingfable.bsky.social made this lovely video of the workshop on Fable Writing. youtu.be/ouhOByeS6hw I had a stimulating time preparing for it and then facilitating it. Thank you to the participants for trusting their wonderful stories to this process of inquiry. Keep writing ✍🏽

Writing Environmental Fables in Kent (November 20, 2024)

YouTube video by Kaori Nagai

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There's also still time to register to attend the Rethinking Fables Conference in-person or online (22-24 May, University of Kent, Canterbury) which includes keynotes by Susan McHugh, and Vinciane Despret @rethinkingfable.bsky.social 🐰🦉🐥 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Thanks, Susan! We are very much looking forward to the reading of your piece at our storytelling event! 😊 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm so enjoying being involved in this University of Kent-based project: 'Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis'. Following on from the workshop facilitation I did last year, I'm grateful to have been commissioned to write a new sequence of #poems around the project's theme.

We are delighted to announce that Suniti Namjoshi, the distinguished fabulist and author of The Blue Donkey Fables (1988), Aesop the Fox (2018) and many other fables, will be taking part in the event. Please visit research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Call for Contributions, Symposium: "Foraging Futures: Human-Environment Relations in a Changing World" October 3–7, 2025 | Triglav National Park, Slovenia foraging.work/symposium/

We have been asked to spread the word about the upcoming Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA PEC) in Bologna: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds." Event page: eisa-net.org/pec-2025/ #rccnews #conference #green #war #military #envhum

Registration is open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22-24, 2025: University of Kent, Canterbury UK & online) with Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Please spread the word – and we'd be delighted if you can join us. research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

These are dark & disconcerting times for the environment and our future. I am reposting our 'Call for Fables'. Drop us a line if you can think of a fable that speaks to you at this moment (& please try writing a fable yourself, to make sense of what’s happening) research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

The recordings of the 'AI and Other Scientific Fables' symposium (26 July 2024) are now available.Thanks so much again to Prof Chris Danta and #ANU School of #Cybernetics for organising this in collaboration with us! @English_ANU 🙂 cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2024/07/2…

A huge thank you to everyone who joined 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent!' and made it such a rewarding session. Let’s keep the conversation going! 🌿 Special thanks to Shreyasi Sharma for designing this fantastic workshop. 🙂

Rethinking Fables@rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you live in or around Kent, please join our in-person creative writing workshop 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent' (Nov 20, 2024, 2-4pm, U of Kent), with Shreyasi Sharma as our facilitator. 🌿For further details, please visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-en...

A huge thank you to everyone who joined 'Writing Environmental Fables in Kent!' and made it such a rewarding session. Let’s keep the conversation going! 🌿 Special thanks to @itswhilereading for designing this fantastic workshop. 🙂

The recordings of the 'AI and Other Scientific Fables' symposium (26 July 2024) are now available. cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2024/07... Thanks so much again to Prof Chris Danta and #ANU School of #Cybernetics for organising this in collaboration with us! 😊

AI and Other Scientific Fables

In aiming to establish a community in Australia around the topic of AI and literature, the AI and Other Scientific Fables Symposium couldn’t have been organised at a more perfect time.

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