About the opportunity The School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) is seeking to appoint two Associate Lecturers / Lecturers in History. One position is focused on pre-1700 history and the other on post-1700. Candidates should hold a relevant PhD, an outstanding research profile and demonstrated...
Two panels of talks on extinction in aquatic environments, supported by ASLE-UKI and the Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre (ShARC) About this eventJoin us for two panels of talks on biodiversity loss in aquatic environments by experts in the humanities and the sciences. This event is...
Alternatives to the Anthropocene A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 145 Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2021 Co-Edited by Ashley Dawson and A. Naomi Paik This issue seeks submissions that examine the voices of those who fought against the development of the Anthropocene, the geological age...
Three research positions in the humanities and/or social sciences have just been advertised, about risk and ethics in the use of synthetic biology to address the climate and ecological crisis. All are ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology positions, based at the Institute for...
When: June 17 - 18, 2021, 1:00 - 5:00 pm, Central US Time Where: Online Register: Free, at www.beingwithplants2021.org This free two-day online event will explore human/plant connections, including ethics in human treatment of plants, plant sentience and communication, and opportunities for developing more respectful and reciprocal relationships...
KERB is an internationally recognized, not-for-profit journal that has been produced by RMIT University for close to three decades. This year, our theme is: WILD A force of disturbance and surprise, a catalyst for evolution in the natural world. We invite you with your opinions on can reimagining what...
When: Monday 30 November, 5pm Where: Online Register via Eventbrite In late October, the Victorian government cut down an ancient Yellow Box tree to make way for a highway. Known to Australian Indigenous Djab Wurrung women as a sacred Directions Tree. Many wept as the tree was felled,...
Ecocide in a Pandemic: Laws of Exposure and Encounter in the Anthropocene Tuesday 17th November 2020, 8.30 – 10pm AEDT In this seminar, we will explore the confluence of colonisation and ecocide in the Anthropocene thesis, and the challenge to modernist claims to mastery posed by the...
Call for presentations: Strange/Letters an ASLEC-ANZ symposium Proposal submission deadline: Tuesday 1st December 2020 Notification of proposal acceptance: Friday 10th January 2021 Symposium date: Friday 5th February 2021 These are strange – and, for some, estranging – times. Dislocated from one another by lockdowns, border closures, and the unsustainability, cost, and even danger of travel, we’re reminded...
The Material Life of Time The second international Temporal Belongings conference 15th-17th March 2021 Online via QiQo Chat Call for papers Much of the time of our lives is given to us by the relationships, properties and movements of worldly materialities. Atmospheric carbon has irrevocably transformed agricultural time (Kassam et...