Into the Woods: An ‘Emotions and Environment’ Symposium July 22, 2015, The University of Melbourne Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Stephen Knight, The University of Melbourne, Associate Professor Linda Williams, RMIT University Forests, and the stories we tell about them, often belong to our earliest memories, regardless of the...
Australian Animal Studies Group (AASG) Conference 2015 Convened by the Australian Centre and the Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE) The University of Melbourne, July 12-15, 2015 The call for papers is now open. We want to hear from scholars, academics, activists and thinkers. Abstracts of 250...
My School at ASU, in conjunction with the School of Sustainability, is looking to hire a TT Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities. The job description is here: http://shprs.clas.asu.edu/about/faculty-positions I expect many of our junior Envirotech members will be well situated for this position, and I hope we'll...
Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel December 2014. ISBN 9781742233352. UNSW Press, 256pp, PB, 250 × 150 mm, RRP AU$49.99 NZ$59.99 What happens when artists, architects, writers, designers and curators take on the planning of a city? In the face of an unprecedented environmental challenge, Curating Sydney proposes a bold new remit for...
Thinking through the Anthropocene: Museums, Humanities, Art November 2014 has seen some big international events in understanding global change. It is a very exciting time when ‘interdisciplinary’ means Art meets Science meets Humanities – and all are together as equal parts of the discussion. Some interesting...
Deadline for Submissions is December 7. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.aslebiennialconference.com/ Submissions information and online form: http://www.aslebiennialconference.com/submitting-a-proposal.html In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents at an important historical conjuncture: the novella’s unnamed, unpleasant hero rails against capitalist industry, imperialist architecture and an emerging...
Helen Pynor’s new work transverses the thematic currents of art – science collaborations and ‘Human – Animal studies’ in contemporary art, making this exhibition astutely avant-garde. 'The Accidental Primate’ explores human-bat relations, taking Sydney as a site for the complex layering of care and disruption, ecological...
Lectures from the Affective Habitus conference (June 2014) are now online at: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/affective-habitus.aspx Further talks will be added as they are edited and uploaded. ...
Sage magazine invites writers to submit nonfiction prose that enhances our understanding of the world, each other, and ourselves. Finalist judges David Haskell Sy Montgomery Terry Tempest Williams Prizes Publication & Cash Award 1ST $1000 2ND $300 3RD $200 Deadline February 1, 2015 Guidelines and further information...
Calling all nature writers! The Nature Conservancy Australia is delighted to open the third biennial Nature Writing Prize. The $5,000 award is for an essay between 3,000 and 5,000 words in the genre of ‘Writing of Place’ and the winning essay will be published in the Australian...