As part of our final day celebrating water, rivers and Nature in “The Gathering: for water and Nature”, Professor Veronica Strang will talk about book “Waterbeings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis” (2023).

As we live in a time when water is increasingly under threat, and attention to ecosystem restoration urgently needed for sustainability, Veronica looks at water-human relationships across time and cultures, using a rich gallery of images from around the world, including from the British Isles.

Grounded in rigorous academic scholarship, her work challenges us to remember and reflect on how we rebalance our elemental relationship with water and Nature.

Professor Strang is affiliated to the Department of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford.