The chapter "The King of the Mice," thematizes the environment. Humans attempt to change the climate, and this ends in a global desaster. Sounds familiar? Except that the tale is, as far as one can trace it, from the sixth century....

Khouloud Khalfallah, expert on the KD manuscript tradition and textual history, and PI Beatrice Gruendler outline why the Kalīla and Dimna body of fables on human moral philosophy has lost none of its relevance throughout the more than one thousand years of its existence. It has been copied, cross-copied, rewritten in numerous versions in order to reframe its core messages.

Convenor
Kaori Nagai, University of Kent, Canterbury
PI on AHRC funded project ‘Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis'  

"At the heart of this project is the appreciation of the fable as an art of multispecies storytelling, associated with political, moral, and educational values. We will draw on the power of the fable as a versatile tool and important resource, which can help us to think differently about pressing global issues and the environmental, political, and technological challenges we face."

For full programme see the project's homepage.