In the first Blue Humanities seminar series event, Professor Gay Hawkins will explore how television mediated the coral reef spawning. "Visualising the Reef: Creating a sense of planet through natural history television on the ABC"Professor Gay Hawkins In December 2020 the ABC ran a themed season of...
RESEARCH AS COMPOSITION a livestream conversation with Steven Feld Join the curatorium collective for their final Session for the year on Nov 25 at 9.00 – 10.30am AEDT to hear renown sound studies theorist, musician, anthropologist, and filmmaker Steven Feld riff on “Research as Composition”. Steve spent...
International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium: Intuitive Interspecies Communication (2023) invites submissions for papers, presentations, posters and artistic works. Hosted online at University of Saskatchewan, May 8-12, 2023. The 4-day transdisciplinary symposium is for researchers, animal communicators and animal care providers who are, or may be, interested in...
Armidale Food SchoolBlack Gully Festival, Armidale, NSW12 November 2022 What is Armidale Food School?Paradoxically it has nothing to do with cooking or growing food! As the climate crisis deepens, one main solution we have ready-to-hand is the widespread and holistic transformation of the agri-food system. While this...
Griffith University has launched a Water Cultures Murray Darling Basin (MDB) network for people who are researching the MDB. The intent is to enhance opportunities for socio-cultural research and facilitate interaction and stronger collaborations within and beyond Australia’s water research culture. It will improve understanding...
This talk previews the monograph Breathing Aesthetics, in which Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the...
Public Lecture: Multiple Earths: Redescribing the Biosphere Professor Stephen Muecke, UNSW The Earth to which we all belong, inalienably, is undergoing a major metamorphosis. Our ways of knowing what is going on are struggling to keep up with the changes. Every discipline, including the arts, is rethinking...
About this event From open pits in remote mountains to flickering bits of digital information, from impending climate catastrophe to emerging markets in refuse and waste, the potentials and perils of our current moment seem to hang on extraction. Looking across political economy, environmental justice, energy...
The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities, edited by Mark Terry and Michael Hewson, provides the latest scholarship on the various methods and approaches being used by environmental humanists to incorporate geomedia into their research and analyses. Chapters in the book examine such...
International Multispecies Research Symposium: Shifting Paradigms in Human-Animal Relations (May 24-26, 2022 - Online). Abstracts (350 words) due April 5; Full submissions due May 10. You do not have to make a submission to attend the symposium. Aims: Scholarly exploration and deeper understanding of intuitive interspecies communication...