Event

Weathering the Apocalypse (Survival Skills Workshop)

Workshop Part of the cluster of events known as Hacking the Anthropocene is Weathering the Apocalypse (Survival Skills workshop). This event is on Monday May 29 at the River Canoe Club of NSW in Tempe. We invite participants to challenge dominant survivalist narratives of militant self-fortification and...

Climate Change and the Quest for Transformative Fictions (Public Lecture)

Public Lecture In association with the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and in collaboration with SEI (Sydney Environment Institute). Climate Change and the Quest for Transformative Fictions is a public lecture by Professor Stephanie Le Menager, with Professor Christopher Wright as respondent, chaired by Dr Jennifer...

H2O: Life and Death – Call for Submissions

H2O: Life and Death 15 & 16 September, 2017 An interdisciplinary conference organised by the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide (Australia) Call for Submissions Waters are contested entities that are currently at the centre of most scientific discussions about sustainability. Discourse around water management underlines...

Seminar: David Farrier “Writing at the Hive” (21 March 2017)

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...

Ecology and Social Justice in Brazil

Seminar with Hugh Lacey, Sunday 5 March: first notice Hugh and Maria Lacey are planning to come to Melbourne around 20 February and to be here for nearly a month. This is a first notice of a discussion to which you are invited.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Laudato...

CFP – Literary Environments: place, planet, translation

17-19 July 2017 The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Literature Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus Literary Environments is concerned with the different environments in which literature can occur, and our methods of translating between them. At this critical juncture in the Anthropocene, planetary responsibility and...

EVENT: Depths and Surfaces: Understanding the Antarctic Region through the Humanities and Social Sciences

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...