Our Sentimental Natures: environmental commitments, media and feeling Day colloquium at Macquarie University, Sydney NSW, Friday May 8th, 2020 Call for provocations and papers Deadline for abstracts: Monday Feb 17th 2020 This colloquium will consider the way photography, comics, visual art, film and video, social media, the press and...
E-Rea Special Issue of June 2021 Guest editors: Sylvie Nail & Camille Manfredi In an article dated 2006, climate scientists advocated more research into: “the social and cultural processes of speaking about climate, of the formation and usage of lay knowledge, of the formation and social functioning of...
Please join us for the symposium ‘In the Making: On Poetry and Poetics’ on Friday, 29 November 2019, from 9.30am to 4pm in E011 A3, Arts Lecture Theatre 3. The event is free and open to the general public. Please send an abstract of 250 words...
SENSE - BIOTOPIA FESTIVAL in MUNICH OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION BIOTOPIA is seeking proposals from scientists, artists, performers and designers for installations, workshops, public experiments, immersive experiences, performances and participatory formats for our third BIOTOPIA Festival, dedicated in 2020 to the exploration of the senses of humans,...
Hosted by China Australia Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of South Australia, this one day and a half seminar and linked publication will be focused on the problem of opacity, or a lack of transparency and traceability in everyday products in today’s global...
RELEVANCE 60th Annual Conference of the Estonian National Museum 5.-7. May 2020 in Tartu, Estonia Organiser: Estonian National Museum Keynotes: Jette Sandahl (Denmark), Nancy Proctor (USA) Conference Webpage: http://enmconferences.ee/relevance-2020 A good museum is one which I come out feeling better than when I went in. Kenneth Hudson This quote from Kenneth Hudson sets...
Art & Extinction - Call for Content The International Journal of Practice Based Humanities (ISSN: 2207-3086) is calling for content for a feature issue on Art & Extinction. This special issue is interested in a diverse and divergent range of views, and would welcome traditional academic...
Final call for papers! Deadline for abstracts extended until 31st August 13th September 2019, Deakin Downtown, Melbourne Research and scholarship focussing on nonhuman animals in the Humanities and Social sciences is of increasing importance in Australia, as it is internationally. Variously referred to as Critical Animal...
AAANZ Ngā Tūtaki: Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies conference 3-6 December, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand Listen. A Southern Boobook Owl is calling in the fresh dark. It is 6:58 pm, 9 June 2019. She is heard but not seen. She reminds us that the work of art...
An International Environmental Humanities Conference Hosted by the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden 5–8 August 2020 Background The past decade has seen the emergence and rapid growth of a new field of inquiry: the environmental humanities (EH). From the scholarly ‘turns’ of the humanities in the 1990s and 2000s...