Author: Kate Johnston

CFP: Shifting States conference,11-15 December 2017, University of Adelaide

Shifting States Anthropology conference 11-15 December 2017, University of Adelaide Three anthropology associations (AAS, ASA and ASAANZ) are collaborating to put on an international conference in December 2017, bringing together anthropologists and members from across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Commonwealth and beyond. The call for papers is...

Viridis Graduate Institute’s Fall 2017 Program

Registration is now open for Viridis Graduate Institute's Fall 2017 degree and non-degree programs in Ecopsychology and Environmental Humanities. Classes are live online! VGI's programs foster capacities to be effective and responsive to our world's complex and interconnected challenges. Visit viridisinstitute.org for additional registration information. ...

Film Screening: ‘A Plastic Ocean’

Monday 5 June 2017 | 4.30pm OLD GEOLOGY LECTURE THEATRE | SCIENCE ROAD | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Links: Further information / Tickets In partnership with SYDNEY IDEAS, the Sydney Environment Institute will be screening the full-length film ‘A Plastic Ocean’. The award-winning film, created by the global network...

Weathering the Apocalypse (Survival Skills Workshop)

Workshop Part of the cluster of events known as Hacking the Anthropocene is Weathering the Apocalypse (Survival Skills workshop). This event is on Monday May 29 at the River Canoe Club of NSW in Tempe. We invite participants to challenge dominant survivalist narratives of militant self-fortification and...

Climate Change and the Quest for Transformative Fictions (Public Lecture)

Public Lecture In association with the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and in collaboration with SEI (Sydney Environment Institute). Climate Change and the Quest for Transformative Fictions is a public lecture by Professor Stephanie Le Menager, with Professor Christopher Wright as respondent, chaired by Dr Jennifer...

Call for Papers: Sustaining the Seas Conference, 11-13 December 2017

Sustaining the Seas: fish, oceanic space and the politics of caring The University of Sydney, 11th - 13th December 2017 Sustaining the Seas is an exciting and experimental refereed international conference that will bring together academics of many disciplines, practitioners, urban planners, artists and writers to consider...

H2O: Life and Death – Call for Submissions

H2O: Life and Death 15 & 16 September, 2017 An interdisciplinary conference organised by the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide (Australia) Call for Submissions Waters are contested entities that are currently at the centre of most scientific discussions about sustainability. Discourse around water management underlines...

PhD and post-doc positions at Ghent University

We invite applications for three positions (2 PhD fellowships, 1 Post-doc) within the ERC Starting Grant Project “Narrating the Mesh.” The envisioned start date for these positions is 1 October 2017, and the maximum duration 4 years. The application deadline is 2 May 2017 (PhD...