Unbuilding multispecies violence in storied place: a triptych art-academic event CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Abstracts due 5 pm, Friday August 30th This is an invitation for artist-researchers and academics to participate in a triptych art-academic event comprised of a collaborative workshop, a three-day writing retreat, and a one-day Symposium. This may...
A One-Day Symposium Monday 9th September, 10am - 4pm Deakin Downtown, Level 12 Tower 2 -727 Collins St, Melbourne The Humanities have been making a valuable contribution to thinking about the environment for many years. This one-day symposium presents some recent thinking about the natural and cultural environments...
Final call for papers! Deadline for abstracts extended until 31st August 13th September 2019, Deakin Downtown, Melbourne Research and scholarship focussing on nonhuman animals in the Humanities and Social sciences is of increasing importance in Australia, as it is internationally. Variously referred to as Critical Animal...
This public symposium will explore how place and memory shape the way we think about landscapes, the past and the present. Drawing together scholars and practitioners, the symposium showcases new research into encounters with place, collecting cultures, natural history and nature writing, and sites of...
The MECO Network announce the publication of 100 Atmospheres. 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder is a multi-authored, many-voiced book published by Open Humanities Press in their new Seed Book series. The authors are all members of the MECO Network: Susan Ballard, Louise Boscacci, David...
AAANZ Ngā Tūtaki: Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies conference 3-6 December, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand Listen. A Southern Boobook Owl is calling in the fresh dark. It is 6:58 pm, 9 June 2019. She is heard but not seen. She reminds us that the work of art...
Australasian Workshop on Teaching Environmental History and Humanities 14-15 November, 2019 Macquarie Room, State Library of New South Wales Call for participants The Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network (ANZEHN) is holding a workshop on teaching environmental history and humanities. Teaching remains a crucial arena for the dissemination...
Macgeorge Bequest Public Lecture: School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne presents: Dr Macarena Gómez-Barris: Submerged Perspectives: Life Otherwise in the Occupied Forest and Along the Alien Ocean Thursday 4th July, 2019 Arts West, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus In this presentation Macarena Gómez-Barris addresses her recent work on...
PAN14: Variations on a theme Available now: Philosophy Activism Nature issue14, featuring more creative-critical explorations into the world of environmental humanities. PAN14 is the first in a series of 'variations' on core themes established in the journal's first decade; working through Country, mythopoeia, creative practice and storytelling while...
Announcing four new own-name books by Rod Giblett, Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University: Psychoanalytic Ecology: The Talking Cure for Environmental Illness and Health Psychoanalytic Ecology applies Freudian concepts, beginning with the uncanny, to environmental issues,...