The Australian Environmental Humanities Hub is no longer in operation. After 12 years of posting news and events, we have decided to shut down the site.
If you would like to share or receive EH related news, we encourage you to contact:
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This website will remain visible until the end of 2026 and will then be taken down. We’d like to thank the environmental humanities community in Australia for making the hub such an active site. Libby Robin, Thom van Dooren, and Cameron Muir
The participatory documentary 'Bajo el Dosel' (Under the Canopy) from the Colombian Amazon, by Michał Krawczyk, has been selected by the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival to compete among “the...
Colleagues, I post to share The Bottom of the Bay, an open-access 'handbook' for approaching the Port Phillip Bay seafloor from and amidst environmental humanities, literary, architectural, anthropological, historical, and...
Tasmanian author Adam Ouston will discuss his new novel Mine with acclaimed writer and critic James Bradley at Better Read Than Dead in Sydney. Set in the mountain rainforests of western...
A new edited volume, Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life (Duke University Press, 2026), builds on recent theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the more-than-human,...
Award-winning author, Dr Bonny Cassidy leads 1-day writing retreats at her bush studio on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria. The day retreats are limited to 4-6 people and...
A new environmental humanities and visual arts collection, The Anthropocene and Visual Culture in Australia, will be available from 28th July via Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/The-Anthropocene-and-Visual-Culture-in-Australia/Williams-McDonald/p/book/9781032997728 Edited by Linda Williams and Helen McDonald, the...
What is a plantation—and why does it matter so profoundly today? From oil palm and coffee to sugar, rubber, and timber, plantations have transformed landscapes, livelihoods, and ecologies across the globe....
One of the joys of creative process is its mystery. What happens between the matter of experience and environment, and the act of representation can seem obscure, even forgettable. But...
University College Cork: 29th - 30th September 2026 Deadline for Submissions: August 24th, 2024 Email: hauntedfuturesconference@gmail.com X:@HauntedFutures Bluesky: @HauntedFutures Proposals for presentations are now being invited for the fourth annual Haunted Futures Conference to be held...
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 31 MARCH 2026 Concrete transforms and disintegrates socio-spatial worlds across time and scales. It derives its existence from the blasted landscapes caused by limestone and sand extraction...