Author: Hayley Singer

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...

22 May, 2018 /

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...

03 May, 2018 /

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...

01 May, 2018 /

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...

05 March, 2018 /

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...

20 February, 2018 /

Call for Papers: A special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies www.tandfonline.com/raut Guest Editors: Jessica White & Gillian Whitlock The University of Queensland We have, arguably, entered the age of the Anthropocene, a time when our environment has been substantially shaped by humans, rather than vice versa. It is...

20 February, 2018 /

Reenchanting Urban Wildness: To Perceive, Think and Live With Nature in its Urban Environment International Conference, Perpignan June 11- 14 2019 Under the aegis of the CRESEM, UPVD GUEST WRITERS Belinda Cannone, French writer, sponsor of the PUP (Presses Universitaires de Perpignan), author of S’émerveiller, 2017. Nathanael Johnson, American journalist...

11 February, 2018 /
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