Writing the Environment: A Workshop with Prof Tom Griffiths (16 February 2018, Sydney)

18 Jan Writing the Environment: A Workshop with Prof Tom Griffiths (16 February 2018, Sydney)

10am-12noon
Level 24, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney
Macquarie University City Campus

In conjunction with a public lecture as part of the HUMAN NATURE Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series (15 February 2018), multi-award winning author Professor Tom Griffiths will be leading a writing workshop on 16 February 2018. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss techniques and approaches to writing non-fiction, with special attention to the challenges and opportunities of integrating the environment into historical narratives.

The workshop is open to those working in the Environmental Humanities. Preference will be given to HDR students and academics from the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, and Macquarie University.

In preparation for the discussion, participants will be asked to read some selected work on this topic, which will be circulated one week prior to the workshop. The workshop is free of charge but places are strictly limited and participants will be selected based on a 100 word expression of interest. Please submit your EOI here by 1 February 2018 (via google forms): https://goo.gl/forms/qpnFh5AJELAH1cQ12

The Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series is jointly funded and coordinated by the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, Western Sydney University, the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum.

Professor Tom Griffiths is the author of Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (1996), Forests of Ash: An Environmental History (2001) and Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (2007). His most recent book is The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft (2016), which was awarded the 2017 Ernest Scott Prize for History and ACT Book of the Year Award. Tom is the W K Hancock Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Chair of the Editorial Board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and Director of the Centre for Environmental History at ANU. His books and essays have won prizes in history, science, literature, politics and journalism including the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, the Eureka Science Book Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History. In 2014 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia.

Enquiries please contact: emily.ogorman@mq.edu.au

Image credit: Ian Mackenzie