Armidale Food SchoolBlack Gully Festival, Armidale, NSW12 November 2022 What is Armidale Food School?Paradoxically it has nothing to do with cooking or growing food! As the climate crisis deepens, one main solution we have ready-to-hand is the widespread and holistic transformation of the agri-food system. While this...
This talk previews the monograph Breathing Aesthetics, in which Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the...
Public Lecture: Multiple Earths: Redescribing the Biosphere Professor Stephen Muecke, UNSW The Earth to which we all belong, inalienably, is undergoing a major metamorphosis. Our ways of knowing what is going on are struggling to keep up with the changes. Every discipline, including the arts, is rethinking...
About this event From open pits in remote mountains to flickering bits of digital information, from impending climate catastrophe to emerging markets in refuse and waste, the potentials and perils of our current moment seem to hang on extraction. Looking across political economy, environmental justice, energy...
Renewing worlds together: notes from the beach Riding connective currents of image, sound, and WiFi, long-time collaborators Paul G Wunungmurra and Jennifer Deger will reflect on beaches as increasingly complex zones of love and concern. -- Monday 17 October 2022, 3.00PM - 4.00PMLocation: Online (Zoom)Host: Sydney Environment Institute,...
International Multispecies Research Symposium: Shifting Paradigms in Human-Animal Relations (May 24-26, 2022 - Online). Abstracts (350 words) due April 5; Full submissions due May 10. You do not have to make a submission to attend the symposium. Aims: Scholarly exploration and deeper understanding of intuitive interspecies communication...
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...
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...
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...