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...
Environmental writing: creativity and social efficacy Event Details: Date: Thursday, 7 June 2018 Time: 9 am – 5 pm Venue: William Macmahon Ball Theatre Old Arts Building University of Melbourne Parkville 3000 Enquiries: Dr Amanda Johnson: amandaj@unimelb.edu.au Dr Saskia Beudel: Saskia.Beudel@canberra.edu.au Bookings: Bookings are essential for this free symposium. Register at http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/creative Over the course of its...
ASLEC-ANZ is seeking a new editor for its journal, The Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic candidate to bring creative and scholarly vision to the journal’s future development. This is a transitional time for the journal and we...
The Anthropocene names a new geological epoch where “Man” is a determining cause of planetary systems change. But who and what is missing from this headline of “humans destroying the planet”? In its third iteration, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton have invited an extraordinary...
PAN13 Country and Mythopoeia Available now: Philosophy Activism Nature issue13, featuring a groundbreaking discussion around the Aboriginal Australian concept of Country and the cross-cultural potential of comparative mythopoeia. PAN 13, titled Country and Mythopoeia, includes a core section on the work of Craig San Roque, who responds to the...
Artist in Residency Program Call for Applications for Artist in Residence 2018, School of Geography, University of Melbourne The School of Geography in association with the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne seeks applicants for its Artist in Residency Program commencing June 2017....
Eating the Anthropocene: What and how should we eat in a climate changing world? Keynote speaker: Mike Goodman (University of Reading) April 26-27, 2018 Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University Further information: https://groundworkgeop.wordpress.com/blog The meatification, standardisation, and globalisation of diets has contributed to food systems and cultures that both...
Call for Papers: First Baltic Conference on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences (BALTEHUMS) October 8-9, 2018 Academic Center for Natural Sciences, Latvian University, Riga, Latvia The interest in interdisciplinary cooperation between humanities, arts and social sciences in the study of environment has been constantly rising all over...
Call for Papers: Frankenstein 2018: Two hundred years of monsters 12-15 September 2018 The Australian National University, and National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra Two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus remains as topical as ever. Its...