‘True Fire: Saint Augustine, the Climate Crisis, and Creative Non-Fiction’ / ‘Affective Ecologies in Petrarch’s Lyric Poems’
Oxford CEMS in the Schwarzman: Early Modern Conversations in Ecology
Professor Bart Van Es (English) ‘True Fire: Saint Augustine, the Climate Crisis, and Creative Non-Fiction’
Professor Francesca Southerden (Italian) ‘Affective Ecologies in Petrarch’s Lyric Poems’

Refreshments served
All welcome
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:15
Venue: Seminar Room 10.424, English Faculty, Humanities Building, Schwarzman Centre
Speakers: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Francesca Southerden (Italian)
Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Organisers: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)
Part of: Early Modern English Literature Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Katy Terry, Hope Lukonyomoi-Otunnu