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...
Environmental Justice 16 and 17 November 2019, 10 am - 4 pm Narrandera Arts and Community Centre, Narrandera, New South Wales Join the Cad Factory, in partnership with the National Museum of Australia, for an interactive workshop exploring how the concept of environmental justice relates to art practice...
Sydney Environment Institute University of Sydney October 24 - October 25 RD Watt Seminar Room Further information: http://sydney.edu.au/environment-institute/events/unsettling-ecological-poetics/ A symposium and workshop sponsored by the Sydney Environment Institute in collaboration with the Visiting Indigenous Writers Program. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can...
Unbuilding multispecies violence in storied place: a triptych art-academic event CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Abstracts due 5 pm, Friday August 30th This is an invitation for artist-researchers and academics to participate in a triptych art-academic event comprised of a collaborative workshop, a three-day writing retreat, and a one-day Symposium. This may...
A One-Day Symposium Monday 9th September, 10am - 4pm Deakin Downtown, Level 12 Tower 2 -727 Collins St, Melbourne The Humanities have been making a valuable contribution to thinking about the environment for many years. This one-day symposium presents some recent thinking about the natural and cultural environments...
This public symposium will explore how place and memory shape the way we think about landscapes, the past and the present. Drawing together scholars and practitioners, the symposium showcases new research into encounters with place, collecting cultures, natural history and nature writing, and sites of...
Australasian Workshop on Teaching Environmental History and Humanities 14-15 November, 2019 Macquarie Room, State Library of New South Wales Call for participants The Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network (ANZEHN) is holding a workshop on teaching environmental history and humanities. Teaching remains a crucial arena for the dissemination...
Macgeorge Bequest Public Lecture: School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne presents: Dr Macarena Gómez-Barris: Submerged Perspectives: Life Otherwise in the Occupied Forest and Along the Alien Ocean Thursday 4th July, 2019 Arts West, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus In this presentation Macarena Gómez-Barris addresses her recent work on...
China Studies Centre, the University of Sydney …………………. Visualizing Oceanic Infrastructure: a workshop on the aesthetics of island building Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 Location: Room 708, Jane Foss Russell Building, University of Sydney Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/visualizing-oceanic-infrastructure-a-workshop-on-the-aesthetics-of-island-building-tickets-61406396184 This workshop in the environmental humanities is designed to introduce...