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...
February to October, 2018 Sydney The inaugural, 2018, series includes nine esteemed international and domestic speakers. There is one lecture scheduled each month from February through to October. Further information on each of these speakers and their lecture topics is provided below. About the Series From climate change and...
Call for papers 7th International Conference on Environmental Future (7ICEF): Humans and Island Environments Honolulu, Hawai'i April 16-20th, 2018 Abstract submission for contributed talks and poster presentations for the 7ICEF are now open. Further information and submission here. Deadline for submissions is December, 1, 2017. Islands are at the forefront of...
Call for Papers Maritime Animals: Telling stories of animals at sea Two-day international conference National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK April 26-27, 2019 Keynote speakers Thom van Dooren William Gervase Clarence-Smith In maritime narratives of humans, ships and the sea, animals are too often absent,...
Environmental Humanities Seminar with Professor Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Wednesday 30 August 2017 | 4:00-5:30pm Morven Brown Building, Room 310 | UNSW, Kensington Campus What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene, the age of...
Tuesday 18 July 2017, 4:00-6:00pm UNSW Law Building, Theatre G23 This public seminar will include lectures by Noortje Marres and Jason Chilvers. The event aims to explore some of the ways in which practices of public participation are currently being rethought and remade, with a particular focus...
The Environmental Humanities programme at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, is advertising three PhD scholarships in specific areas in the environmental humanities and science and technology studies (with collaboration from colleagues in a range of other areas). 1.) Protecting Indigenous Knowledge...
Writing at the Hive: the Poetics of Kin-Making in Sean Borodale's Bee Journal David Farrier University of Edinburgh, Scotland Tuesday 21 March 2017 | 4:00-5:30pm Morven Brown Building, Room 209 | UNSW, Kensington Campus A seminar hosted by the UNSW Environmental Humanities group. This paper will explore what makes a...
A conference to be held at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 5-7 July 2017 Website: http://antarctica-hasseg.com/biennial-conference-2017/ Deadline for Abstracts: 3 March 2017 (see details below) Keynote Speakers: Prof. Sanjay Chaturvedi (Panjab University), Prof. Anne Noble (Massey University) and Prof. Tim Stephens (University...
A state of shock is something that happens to us not only when something bad happens. It's what happens to us when we lose our narrative, when we lose our story, when we become disoriented. - Naomi Klein Call for Stories 27-29 October 2016: Stockholm, Sweden The KTH...