Shifting States Anthropology conference 11-15 December 2017, University of Adelaide Three anthropology associations (AAS, ASA and ASAANZ) are collaborating to put on an international conference in December 2017, bringing together anthropologists and members from across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Commonwealth and beyond. The call for papers is...
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...
Monday 5 June 2017 | 4.30pm OLD GEOLOGY LECTURE THEATRE | SCIENCE ROAD | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Links: Further information / Tickets In partnership with SYDNEY IDEAS, the Sydney Environment Institute will be screening the full-length film ‘A Plastic Ocean’. The award-winning film, created by the global network...
Symposium The Hacking the Anthropocene II: Weathering symposium will take place on Friday May 26, at the University of Sydney. It will include spotlight talks and performances by Professor Stephanie LeMenager (U of Oregon), Associate Prof Tess Lea (University of Sydney), Dr Denis Byrne (Senior Research...
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...
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 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...
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...
Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk at the University of Sydney Anna Kaijser: Green Citizens on the Run: Embodied Climate Activism and Story-Telling in the Mobilization for COP21 WHEN: 12pm-1pm, Monday March 6, 2017 WHERE: SOPHI Common Room, Level 8, Brennan McCallum Building (A18 - Main Campus, University of Sydney) Anna...
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...