Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene: More than human encounters is a new book published by the Routledge Environmental Humanities Series. "Storied places and companions infuse this deeply moving book of earthly encounters. This is not travel writing in any conventional sense, but home writing attuned to...
Seminar with Hugh Lacey, Sunday 5 March: first notice Hugh and Maria Lacey are planning to come to Melbourne around 20 February and to be here for nearly a month. This is a first notice of a discussion to which you are invited. ECOLOGY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Laudato...
Bath Spa University in the UK is hosting this year's Association of Commonwealth Universities Summer School, which is focused on New Narratives for Environmental Change in the Arts and Humanities. Participation is open to all students from Commonwealth countries from Honours through to PhD level. Applications...
Call for Papers: Commanding the Environment or Green Dictatorships? Nature-Culture – Nature-Society Relationships in Authoritarian Regimes International Seminar at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, 27-28 April 2017 The Jean Monnet Team of the Aleksanteri Institute (the Finnish Centre of Russian and East European Studies) at...
Philosophy Activism Nature 12 has just been released, with lots of interesting articles, poetry, photo-essays and much much more; focused around the theme of 'place' and talking to the Anthropocene, cross-species communication and empathy, PAN12 demonstrates how emotional geographies complement EH practices. Available free online, under 'current issue' here: http://panjournal.net PAN12 offers academic articles by...
A curatorial position in the People and the Environment section of the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, is now available. Applications close 26 Jan 2016. Further information: http://www.nma.gov.au/about_us/employment/jobs_asset_listing/curator-APS6...
17-19 July 2017 The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Literature Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus Literary Environments is concerned with the different environments in which literature can occur, and our methods of translating between them. At this critical juncture in the Anthropocene, planetary responsibility and...
Call for papers The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic: A nearly carbon-neutral conference June 26th – July 14th 2017 More plastic was produced in the past decade than during the entire 20th century. We currently produce over 300 million tonnes of plastic each year. We have built a...
Call for Applications for Artist in Residence 2017, 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 April/May 2017. We seek a...
University of Leeds Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017 Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor Alexandra Harris (Liverpool); Professor Mike Hulme (King’s College London); Dr Adeline Johns-Putra (Surrey); Professor Toby Miller (Loughborough); Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) Our experience of...