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 Tasmania, Mine follows an ageing poet and environmental activist who becomes trapped in an abandoned...
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, exploring how entities not traditionally recognized as “alive” play active roles in shaping multispecies worlds....
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 take place between native woodland and an off-grid shelter. Retreat themes reflect the studio setting...
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 book features writers from various fields in visual culture, history, and ecocritical theory who give...
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. In her latest book, Plantations: Extraction, Extinction, Emergence (Cambridge University Press, 2026), anthropologist and environmental...
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 this can also lead to creative block, habits of technique and form, or material without...
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 from the 29th to the 30th of September at University College Cork. Supported by UCC’s Collective...
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 and inhabits the altered urban ecologies of concrete landscapes. Concrete is generated for and employed...
Finnish Literary Research Society Annual Conference 2026University of Oulu, Oulu, May 20-22, 2026 Indigenous Futurisms Beyond the West: Arab and Global South Speculative FictionOver the last decade, indigenous futurism has demonstrated how speculative genres have evolved as fictional spaces where indigenous communities reclaim nature-culture futurity, resist...
Intersections between gender, feminism, and ecological issues have been explored for more than fifty years. Scholars have demonstrated that ecosystems and life forms are oppressed by the same systems of power critiqued and challenged by queer and feminist research. They have unearthed connections between patriarchy,...