Towards a Wind Humanities
LOCATION
Woodhouse
Leeds
LS2 9JT
In this talk, Dr J. R. Carpenter will discuss interdisciplinary research conducted during the AHRC and DFG funded project Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience, published in a special issue of Media + Environment earlier this year. The research presented in this issue introduces wind humanities as a burgeoning field, exploring how wind shapes experience, reasoning, artistic and knowledge production. It positions wind as a medium, model, and lived experience, drawing on environmental humanities, media studies, and artistic practice to investigate wind’s methodological, epistemological, and ontological implications for humanistic inquiry. The authors situate this emergent field within the broader environmental and elemental turn in the humanities and media studies, highlighting its connections to new materialism and its potential to transform our understanding of both wind and the elemental more broadly. They suggest a rich and evolving landscape of inquiry around wind, highlighting past work and introducing the ten contributions to this stream, which explore wind as media, model, and experience across military technology, volumetric poetry, a libretto, animacies, aesthetics, diffraction, environmental perception, risk communication, indigenous cosmologies, and energy infrastructure.
Meeting room location to be confirmed.
Speaker
Dr J. R. Carpenter is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, and a Lecturer in Creative Practice in the School of English at the University of Leeds. Their work asks questions about place, displacement, climate, and colonialism across performance, print, and digital media. The digital poem, The Gathering Cloud, won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Their debut poetry collection, An Ocean of Static, was commended for the Forward Prize 2019. Their hybrid print-digital project This is a Picture of Wind was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020 and featured in the Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library 2023. Their most recent collection, Measures of Weather, was The Observer’s poetry book of the month February 2025.
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In this talk, Dr J. R. Carpenter will discuss interdisciplinary research conducted during the AHRC and DFG funded project Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience, published in a special issue of Media + Environment earlier this year. The research presented in this issue introduces wind humanities as a burgeoning field, exploring how wind shapes experience, reasoning, artistic and knowledge production. It positions wind as a medium, model, and lived experience, drawing on environmental humanities, media studies, and artistic practice to investigate wind’s methodological, epistemological, and ontological implications for humanistic inquiry. The authors situate this emergent field within the broader environmental and elemental turn in the humanities and media studies, highlighting its connections to new materialism and its potential to transform our understanding of both wind and the elemental more broadly. They suggest a rich and evolving landscape of inquiry around wind, highlighting past work and introducing the ten contributions to this stream, which explore wind as media, model, and experience across military technology, volumetric poetry, a libretto, animacies, aesthetics, diffraction, environmental perception, risk communication, indigenous cosmologies, and energy infrastructure.
Meeting room location to be confirmed.
Speaker
Dr J. R. Carpenter is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, and a Lecturer in Creative Practice in the School of English at the University of Leeds. Their work asks questions about place, displacement, climate, and colonialism across performance, print, and digital media. The digital poem, The Gathering Cloud, won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Their debut poetry collection, An Ocean of Static, was commended for the Forward Prize 2019. Their hybrid print-digital project This is a Picture of Wind was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020 and featured in the Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library 2023. Their most recent collection, Measures of Weather, was The Observer’s poetry book of the month February 2025.
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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN.
Registration for this event is available In person only.
Members
If you are a member of the Society and have an account already, please log in to your account before your register. If you are a member and don’t have an account set up already, you will need to create an account. Your username is the email address that is linked to your membership.
Non-Members
If you are not a member of the Society you will need to create an account in order to register for events.
Once you have created an account, you will be required to log in each time you would like to register for an event. You will also have access to a Dashboard area that will show which events you have registered for and past events you have attended.
Any information you provide to us will only be used by The Royal Meteorological Society and appointed representatives.
This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate. Free to attend. Non-members are welcome.
A copy of our terms and conditions can be found here.
If you have any queries with regards to this event or require any further information please contact us at meetings@rmets.org.
The RMetS strives to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you would like to discuss accessibility or request accommodations please contact conferences@rmets.org.
We take data privacy seriously. Please read the RMetS privacy policy to find out more.
