The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is now available on the Rowman & Littlefield website. Please pass along the info to your networks and libraries for pre-order. The book is scheduled for release on December 17, 2015. It is already listed on Amazon and...
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language Issue: Ecotones as Contact Zones: Reading Landscape Intersections Submissions due: 18 November 2015 The Summer 2015/16 issue of Landscapes seeks critical essays, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography and artwork of a broadly interdisciplinary nature that...
The Bush Retreats for Eco-Writers (BREW) network recently hosted its inaugural writer in residence, PhD student Justine Philip from the University of New England. Justine spent ten productive days at the charming ‘Blue Bucket’ property. Read Justine’s report on the BREW website Feature image: Blue Bucket residence...
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Deadline: November 29, 2015 Schumacher College and The Sharpham Trust invite you to submit a proposal for participation to the forthcoming symposium Language, Landscape and the Sublime, to be held June 29/30, 2016. This event is part of Schumacher College’s Ecological Arts programme. More...
The peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its special issue: Animal Alterity, Spring 2016. Deadline is January 15. Otherness: Essays and Studies publishes research articles from and across different scholarly disciplines that critically examine the concepts of otherness and alterity....
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...