Call for Papers: Frankenstein 2018: Two hundred years of monsters 12-15 September 2018 The Australian National University, and National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra Two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus remains as topical as ever. Its...
Call for Papers: A special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies www.tandfonline.com/raut Guest Editors: Jessica White & Gillian Whitlock The University of Queensland We have, arguably, entered the age of the Anthropocene, a time when our environment has been substantially shaped by humans, rather than vice versa. It is...
Reenchanting Urban Wildness: To Perceive, Think and Live With Nature in its Urban Environment International Conference, Perpignan June 11- 14 2019 Under the aegis of the CRESEM, UPVD GUEST WRITERS Belinda Cannone, French writer, sponsor of the PUP (Presses Universitaires de Perpignan), author of S’émerveiller, 2017. Nathanael Johnson, American journalist...
Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra 28 May—1 June 2018 Are you writing a PhD in some aspect of environmental history? The Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University will be running a workshop for PhD students from around the country who are researching...
Sit and read or listen with EcoFeminist Fridays at the University of Melbourne. Our weekly ‘read-ins’ aim to create a kind of refuge for critical ecological feminist thought and action. In the first half of 2018, we will be reading aloud, as a collective, from...
Come compost and compose matters with with us at 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference) Sydney, Aug 29 - Sept 1, 2018. Open panel Composting Feminisms & Environmental Humanities (panel 44). Abstract submissions due Feb 1, 2018. ORGANISERS: Lindsay Kelley, UNSW; Susie Pratt (University...
What can moving images do? An ecological thinking of the moving image This issue of Transformations calls for papers as provocations into the human-nature relation through the questioning power of the moving image. In particular, we are looking for contributions that focus on the function of...
International Australian Studies Association Biennial Conference 3-5 December 2018, The University of Queensland Unsettling Australia Australia, the oldest continental landmass on Earth, has had a relatively stable geographical history and, situated in the middle of a tectonic plate, it currently has no active volcanism. However the advent of...
Date: 14‒15 December 2017 Venue: Woodward Conference Centre, 10th Floor, Law Building, The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham St, Carlton, VIC Enquiries: Grace Moore (gmoo@unimelb.edu.au) Convened by: Stephanie Trigg and Grace Moore Whether it is red in tooth and claw or a goddess to be worshipped, nature is always...
Call for papers 7th International Conference on Environmental Future (7ICEF): Humans and Island Environments Honolulu, Hawai'i April 16-20th, 2018 Abstract submission for contributed talks and poster presentations for the 7ICEF are now open. Further information and submission here. Deadline for submissions is December, 1, 2017. Islands are at the forefront of...