The Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), a research center within the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently launched a new blog titled, Edge Effects. Australian Environmental Humanities researchers will be interested in its content. In the lead up to the Anthropocene Slam: A...
Australian Book Review has just released its first issue devoted to theme of 'the environment'. Highlights include Tom Griffiths' essay 'Coming of age in the great acceleration', Alison Pouliot’s superb photo essay on drought in Australia, Danielle Clode’s long article ‘Seeing the Wood for the...
28 June-1 July 2015, Durham University Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor David Held (Durham University) Professor Wendy Brown (UC, Berkeley) Professor Claire Colebrook (Penn State) Professor Walter Kälin (University of Bern) Conference website: http://dogweb.dur.ac.uk/costconference New submission deadline: 12 December 2014 Submission Information: Submit paper session proposals to climate.migration@durham.ac.uk with the subject line ‘Durham Conference’. Conference...
WISCONSIN INSTITUTES FOR DISCOVERY DELUCA FORUM MADISON DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI All events are free and open to the public and livestreamed from this site: http://nelson.wisc.edu/che/anthroslam/about/index.php We are in the midst of a great reawakening to questions of time—across the spans of...
An interdisciplinary seminar series for 2014-2015 (http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/anthropocene) Organisers: Jamie Lorimer and Jamie Castell Theme The Anthropocene heralds a new epoch, initiated once humans became a geological force. It marks a planetary event: the moment when the ‘earth system’ tipped out of Holocene. This transition jeopardises the conditions that enabled...
6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Animal Studies Group (AASG): July 12-15, 2015. Convened by the Australian Centre and the Human Rights & Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE), University of Melbourne. Call for Papers Open until Monday November 17 – please share! Download the pdf here The human/nonhuman animal relationship is continually...
An international conference to be held in Beijing, at Renmin University of China, 28-31 May 2014 Co-Sponsored by the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, and Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich Nuclear power plants, bullet trains, factory farms, and ancient rice paddies...
Applications are invited for three Masters fellowships for the M Phil specialising in the Environmental Humanities programme at UCT, funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Towards an Environmental Humanities of the South: Debates about ecology, energy and natural resource management in Southern Africa are often trapped...