Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links and flows between the terrestrial organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers...
Call for Paper AAS2018 Life in an Age of Death, 4 - 7 December, 2018 James Cook University, Cairns https://www.aasconf.org/2018/ The deadline for submissions is July 16. Sea theory, atmospheres, and liminality of lives This panel will explore the development of the "ocean turn" and the rise of "critical ocean studies"...
The 2019 Biennial ASLEC-ANZ Conference theme is Grounding Story. We seek submissions that respond to the material and ideological implications of environmental storytelling in either a speculative or a critical mode.[i] On one hand, we are concerned with situated and embodied narratives that can cultivate cosmopolitical worlds and...
Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development Edited by Anita Kangas, Nancy Duxbury, Christiaan De Beukelaer 2018 – Routledge The concept of sustainable development is commonly divided into environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions. While a variety of international actors have declared the importance of culture in sustainable development,...
Forest Family Australian Culture, Art, and Trees Editors: John Charles Ryan and Rod Giblett Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning...
Please consider submitting a proposal for a panel or workshop for the 2019 ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) conference at the University of California at Davis. Topics may include but are certainly not limited to: • reckoning with “paradise” in the face...
The Centre For Deep Reading is inviting expressions of interest for our Winter Reading Retreat at Tyraman Retreat in the Hunter Valley from July 3rd - 12th, 2018. What is the reading retreat? The retreat is a temporary reading collective made of fifteen people (plus...
Beyond Survival: Austerity, precarity, resilience Symposium at the University of Tasmania October 23 - 24, 2018 Inquiries to Naomi Milthorpe at naomi.milthorpe@utas.edu.au. In periods of extended crisis, individual and collective goals orient towards concepts of “survival”. Acceptable definitions of survival are contested and the conditions for survival are vulnerable to exploitation...
Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible By Rod Giblett Many ways of thinking about and living with ‘the environment’ have their roots in the Bible and the Christian cultural tradition. Environmental Humanities and Theologies shows that some of these ways are problematic. It also provides...
Public presentation by Dr Lisa Slater (University of Wollongong), with responses from Dr Emily Potter (Deakin) and Professor Lyn McCredden (Deakin) When: Friday June 15, 3-4.30pm Where: Deakin Downtown, Level 12/727 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3008 ‘Desiring Belonging: white anxiety, anti-colonial spatiality and Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals’ In this paper, I return...