24 Nov Exhibition: Playing with Fire – Mandy Martin
Mandy Martin’s exhibition Playing with Fire continues to draw from a two year study in the Paruku Indigenous Protected Area around Lake Gregory in the south east Kimberly. Martin’s knowledge...
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24 Nov Public Lecture: Dr Tania Lewis (RMIT), “Bringing the Chickens Home to Roost: The Mainstreaming of Ethical Consumption”
Celebrity chefs exhorting us to eat less and buy local; mobile phone apps promoting ‘swopping not shopping’; supermarkets selling ‘guilt free’, Fair Trade products—wealthy capitalist societies around the world appear...
24 Nov New Book – Curating Sydney: Imagining the city’s future
Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel December 2014. ISBN 9781742233352. UNSW Press, 256pp, PB, 250 × 150 mm, RRP AU$49.99 NZ$59.99 What happens when artists, architects, writers, designers and curators take on the planning of a city? In...
23 Nov Thinking Through The Anthropocene in Madison and Berlin
Thinking through the Anthropocene: Museums, Humanities, Art November 2014 has seen some big international events in understanding global change. It is a very exciting time when ‘interdisciplinary’ means Art meets Science...
22 Nov CFP ASLE 2015 Conference: Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice
Deadline for Submissions is December 7. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.aslebiennialconference.com/ Submissions information and online form: http://www.aslebiennialconference.com/submitting-a-proposal.html In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents at an important historical...
21 Nov Exhibition – The Accidental Primate
Helen Pynor’s new work transverses the thematic currents of art – science collaborations and ‘Human – Animal studies’ in contemporary art, making this exhibition astutely avant-garde. 'The Accidental Primate’ explores human-bat...
21 Nov Lectures from ASLEC-ANZ/Centre for the History of Emotions conference, ‘Affective Habitus’
Lectures from the Affective Habitus conference (June 2014) are now online at: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/affective-habitus.aspx Further talks will be added as they are edited and uploaded. ...
21 Nov EXHIBITION – THE ACCIDENTAL PRIMATE
'The Accidental Primate' explores human-bat relations, taking Sydney as a site for the complex layering of care and disruption, ecological interdependency and threat, and cross-species exchange and infectivity. The exhibition...
19 Nov Sage Magazine’s Emerging Environmental Writer’s Contest 2015
Sage magazine invites writers to submit nonfiction prose that enhances our understanding of the world, each other, and ourselves. Finalist judges David Haskell Sy Montgomery Terry Tempest Williams Prizes Publication & Cash Award 1ST $1000 2ND $300 3RD $200 Deadline February...
12 Nov The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize 2014
Calling all nature writers! The Nature Conservancy Australia is delighted to open the third biennial Nature Writing Prize. The $5,000 award is for an essay between 3,000 and 5,000 words in the...