26-27 July 2023 Workshop Schedule
Healthscapes is a network that aims to bring together researchers, scholars, artists, activists and institutions working in the field of environment and health humanities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
HEALTHSCAPES:
Exploring entanglements of health and environment in the Middle East and North Africa
Healthscapes is a network that aims to bring together researchers, scholars, artists, activists and institutions working in the field of environment and health humanities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Led by Dr Semih Çelik, Professor Maziyar Ghiabi, and Dr Chris Sandal-Wilson, the network was founded in 2023 to bring together perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences and develop understandings of the entanglement of health and environment in the Middle East and North Africa.
The network launches with a two-day long in-person workshop to be held at the
University of Exeter on 26-27 July 2023
The workshop aims to address the following questions among others:
EVENT: OCTOBER 1st 2026
The Virtual Shepherd: Love and Screen Addiction at the End of the World is a photographic and video exploration of Ali, a young shepherd in Iran’s remote 70 Peaks Valley. In the 2010s, he managed a Telegram chat with over 5,000 members, sustaining a vibrant online life he called majazi — “the virtual.” The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the surreal intersection of rural life and digital connectivity, where the smartphone becomes a site of desire, longing, and endless scrolling. Even as platforms change, the experience of being online remains strikingly familiar.
