The Centre For Deep Reading is inviting expressions of interest for our Winter Reading Retreat at Tyraman Retreat in the Hunter Valley from July 3rd - 12th, 2018. What is the reading retreat? The retreat is a temporary reading collective made of fifteen people (plus...
Beyond Survival: Austerity, precarity, resilience Symposium at the University of Tasmania October 23 - 24, 2018 Inquiries to Naomi Milthorpe at naomi.milthorpe@utas.edu.au. In periods of extended crisis, individual and collective goals orient towards concepts of “survival”. Acceptable definitions of survival are contested and the conditions for survival are vulnerable to exploitation...
Public presentation by Dr Lisa Slater (University of Wollongong), with responses from Dr Emily Potter (Deakin) and Professor Lyn McCredden (Deakin) When: Friday June 15, 3-4.30pm Where: Deakin Downtown, Level 12/727 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3008 ‘Desiring Belonging: white anxiety, anti-colonial spatiality and Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals’ In this paper, I return...
Environmental writing: creativity and social efficacy Event Details: Date: Thursday, 7 June 2018 Time: 9 am – 5 pm Venue: William Macmahon Ball Theatre Old Arts Building University of Melbourne Parkville 3000 Enquiries: Dr Amanda Johnson: amandaj@unimelb.edu.au Dr Saskia Beudel: Saskia.Beudel@canberra.edu.au Bookings: Bookings are essential for this free symposium. Register at http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/creative Over the course of its...
The Anthropocene names a new geological epoch where “Man” is a determining cause of planetary systems change. But who and what is missing from this headline of “humans destroying the planet”? In its third iteration, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton have invited an extraordinary...
The National Arboretum Canberra presents two fungus workshops with natural historian and environmental photographer, Alison Pouliot. These workshops introduce participants to the diversity, ecology and curiosities of the Kingdom Fungi, specific to fungi found in the region, but also within wider Australian and international contexts. They include...
Artist in Residency Program Call for Applications for Artist in Residence 2018, School of Geography, University of Melbourne The School of Geography in association with the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne seeks applicants for its Artist in Residency Program commencing June 2017....
Eating the Anthropocene: What and how should we eat in a climate changing world? Keynote speaker: Mike Goodman (University of Reading) April 26-27, 2018 Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University Further information: https://groundworkgeop.wordpress.com/blog The meatification, standardisation, and globalisation of diets has contributed to food systems and cultures that both...
Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra 28 May—1 June 2018 Are you writing a PhD in some aspect of environmental history? The Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University will be running a workshop for PhD students from around the country who are researching...
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...