Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for HACKING THE ANTHROPOCENE IV: DIT: DO-IT-TOGETHER Hacking the Anthropocene is a series of events founded in 2016 by Dr. Astrida Neimanis and co-hosted in 2017/2018 by Dr. Jennifer Hamilton of Composting Feminisms at Sydney University. In 2019 for the first time, Hacking the Anthropocene comes to Melbourne, hosted...
Mineral transformation and resource extraction generate some of the most complex environmental, social and economic problems facing humankind and the planet today. In one way or another, resource extraction and mineral transformation are central to human existence. Like all biological organisms, we are mineral and matter...
CFP: Creaturely Ethics and Poetics Date: June 27-29, 2019 Location: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Chief Convenor: Victor J Krawczyk Website: https://www.creaturelyethicsconferencestream.com/ The domination-exploitation of human beings begins with animals, wild beasts and cattle; the humans associated with these inaugurated an experience that would turn back against them: killings,...
Registrations are now open for the 7th ASLEC-ANZ biennial conference, Grounding Story, which will take place at the University of New England, Armidale, 13-15 February, 2019. Keynote speakers are Professor Greta Gaard, Associate Professor Thom van Dooren, Dr Daniel Hikuroa and Alison Whittaker. There is a generous early bird...
Transformations announces the release of Issue 32 What Can Moving Images Do? An Ecological Thinking of the Moving Image http://www.transformationsjournal.org/2018-issue-no-32-what-can-moving-images-do/ Issue 32 called for provocations into the human-nature relation through the questioning power of the moving image. In particular, the editors looked for contributions that focused on the...
Registration is open for the upcoming symposium, Beyond Survival: Precarity, austerity, resilience at the University of Tasmania on October 23-24. The symposium features an exciting range of speakers from across HASS disciplines and the non-profit sector. Registration for this event is free. Please RSVP by October 18...
In conjunction with a public lecture as part of the Spectacle of Science event at Macquarie University (8 November 2018), Oron Catts, artist and Director of SymbioticA, will be leading a workshop from 10am-1pm on 9 November 2018. The workshop will be held at Macquarie...
China’s environmental challenge and eco-civilisation: a multidisciplinary approach to the Anthropocene The University of Sydney 14 to 18 January, 2019 Call for Applications: The 2019 Graduate Workshop on China in the Urban Age The University of Sydney is organising the inaugural graduate workshop of the China Studies Centre’s recently...
The 7th Biennial Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture Conference Hosted by University of New England, Armidale February 13-15, 2019. The 2019 ASLEC-ANZ Conference theme is Grounding Story. We seek submissions from scholars, artists, writers and activists that respond to the material and ideological implications of environmental...
Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links and flows between the terrestrial organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers...