Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race MIT Press, 2015 How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good—no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in...
Land Dialogues Conference: Interdisciplinary Research in Dialogue with Land Link: http://landdialogues.com/ | #landdialogues 14th and 15th of April 2016 at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia ***** Details The Call for Papers for the inaugural Land Dialogues Conference: Interdisciplinary Research in Dialogue with Land is now open. The Land Dialogues...
Anthropocene Cabinets of Curiosity: Objects of Strange Change Libby Robin (Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU and National Museum of Australia) Humanities Research Centre Seminar: HRC Conference Room, Top Floor, A.D Hope Building #14, ANU Tuesday 29 September 2015 4-5.30 pm In today’s museums and artworks, in digital...
Call for Papers [revised due date: 18th September 2015] Please send proposals of up to 350 words with a short biographical note to theethicsofhope@gmail.com by Friday 18th September. We're inviting proposals from practitioners in the arts, sciences and humanities for presentations around these questions: How to think of...
Astrida Neimanis (USYD) and Jennifer Hamilton (NYU Sydney) are starting a reading group exploring the links and tensions between inclusive feminisms and environmental humanities. We have put together a list for four once-monthly sessions that takes us until the end of 2015. Then, reflecting on...
The Graham Sustainability Institute is now accepting applications for the 2016 cohort of the Dow Postdoctoral Fellows in Sustainability. Please forward this announcement to colleagues and/or prospective postdoctoral fellows. These fellowships are designed to support a new generation of sustainability scholars who understand the necessity of...
Schumacher College (UK) has announced a new programme in Arts & Ecology, including a Master of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts. Both awards are still subject to final validation from Plymouth University. This postgraduate programme is aimed at artists with an established practice who yearn for new...
New Journal International Review of Environmental History free online ANU ePress International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It publishes on all thematic and geographical topics of environmental history, but especially encourages articles with perspectives focussed on or developed from the southern hemisphere and...
Plumwood Mountain: an Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics will dedicate volume 2, issue 2 (September 2015) to the memory of Martin Harrison (1949-2014). A key member of Plumwood Mountain’s inaugural editorial board, and acclaimed poet, critic and teacher, Martin's impact upon contemporary Australian poetry...
UPDATED DUE DATE: SUBMISSIONS NOW DUE BY SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 Food and Sustainability: Eco-Critical Responses to Contemporary Crises in Food, Water and the Environment Call for Papers: Putting the Humanities on the Frontlines of Ecological Discourse… We seek papers of approximately 15-20 pages (4,500 to 7, 500 words)...