From January 31 to May 30, Spring Creek Project will present the Bedrock Lectures on Human Rights and Climate Change. The weekly, online lectures will feature leading writers, scientists, attorneys, community leaders, activists, and artists. Find them on Spring Creek Project's Facebook page, with a...
Sit and read or listen with EcoFeminist Fridays at the University of Melbourne. Our weekly ‘read-ins’ aim to create a kind of refuge for critical ecological feminist thought and action. In the first half of 2018, we will be reading aloud, as a collective, from...
Environmental Workshop with Mark Tredinnick "The Still Point in the Moving World: Writing as a Hearth in Times of Trouble" 13 February 2018, 1–4pm UNE Parramatta Join us at the UNE Parramatta FutureCampus for a writing workshop with acclaimed author Mark Tredinnick as part of the 'Two Canaries of...
Come compost and compose matters with with us at 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference) Sydney, Aug 29 - Sept 1, 2018. Open panel Composting Feminisms & Environmental Humanities (panel 44). Abstract submissions due Feb 1, 2018. ORGANISERS: Lindsay Kelley, UNSW; Susie Pratt (University...
What can moving images do? An ecological thinking of the moving image This issue of Transformations calls for papers as provocations into the human-nature relation through the questioning power of the moving image. In particular, we are looking for contributions that focus on the function of...
International Australian Studies Association Biennial Conference 3-5 December 2018, The University of Queensland Unsettling Australia Australia, the oldest continental landmass on Earth, has had a relatively stable geographical history and, situated in the middle of a tectonic plate, it currently has no active volcanism. However the advent of...
Date: 14‒15 December 2017 Venue: Woodward Conference Centre, 10th Floor, Law Building, The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham St, Carlton, VIC Enquiries: Grace Moore (gmoo@unimelb.edu.au) Convened by: Stephanie Trigg and Grace Moore Whether it is red in tooth and claw or a goddess to be worshipped, nature is always...
South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference 14th - 16th February 2018 UNE FutureCampus 211 Church St, Parramatta, NSW, 2150 The Two Canaries Conference marks the 20th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, the pioneering international treaty on greenhouse gas emissions to which, in December 1997, 192 nations put their...
Call for papers, American Comparative Literature Association, 2018 Annual Meeting Organizer: Bogna M. Konior Co-Organizer: Nadia de Vries Contact the Seminar Organizers Pathography, or the documentation of illness, has been a consistent feature in feminist writing. From Woolf (On Being Ill, 1978), Sontag (“Illness as Metaphor,” 1978) and Lorde (The Cancer...
A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene A Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the University of California, Santa Barbara June 14-30, 2018 CFP online: https://christymtidwell.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/cfp-a-clockwork-green-ecomedia-in-the-anthropocene/ A troubling paradox lies at the heart of ecomedia studies: those of us who...