Rowman and Littlefield International and the editors of Rethinking the Island are celebrating our first of ten years! Our series Academic and policy writing on islands has grown rapidly, with much effort focused on island ecologies and environments, island heritage and culture, and island vulnerabilities and resilience, and...
Aeon Magazine is one of the great outreach initiatives in the Environmental Humanities. I am very pleased to have my latest publication there No island is an island in a cosmopolitan age Libby Robin...
Graduate School in Environmental History Läänemaa, Estonia, May 13-15, 2015 KAJAK, the Estonian Centre for Environmental History at Tallinn University Institute of History, in cooperation with the University of Tartu and Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society (LMU Munich) and with the support of European Society...
A position as Associate Professor in Cultural History specialized in orders and histories of knowledge, with an emphasis on the cultural history of nature, is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1282484/62042?iso=no A position as Associate Professor in Museology and...
In this new work, Elaine Stratford takes up the call for more work on the politics of mobility, for studies that engage more often and more fully with emotional geographies, and for insights that draw on lived experience. Stratford starts with the idea of the interval....
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society invites applications for its 2015–16 cohort of postdoctoral and senior fellows. The fellowship program is designed to bring together excellent scholars who are working in environmental history and related disciplines. For Phase II of the Carson Center (beginning...
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...