Climate vulnerability-and-complicity, white fragility and supremacy, cis entitlement and speciesism each present particularly challenging conditions for educators and other pedagogues to navigate in contemporary educational settings. How can we effectively engage people in discussions and responses to what might feel for them - and us...
Oratunga Winter School #2: Creating out of Place 21-27 July 2019 @ the Historic Oratunga Sheep Station Six days of workshops, collaboration, creative development and critical reflection. A team of distinguished scholars and creative practitioners will guide you through the art of creative place-making in storied Country. Practice and...
The Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture series will be running again in 2019. --- Environmental change is happening all around us, and yet voices differ over its causes and consequences. At the same time, our human activity is playing an increasingly significant role in shaping the earth and...
Writing Place, Writing Laws: Laws & the Humanities in the 'Anthropocene' Workshop, Friday 10 May 2019 Melbourne Law School Call for Papers Deadline: 10 March 2019 To be held on Friday 10th May 2019, this workshop, featuring Professor Alexis Wright, award winning author, and Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature...
The HumanNature: Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series will be running again in 2019 with a great lineup of speakers. The first lecture will be: Prof. Tony Birch (Victoria University) "Connection and cooperation in a time of climate change" Tuesday 26 February 2019 6:00-7:30pm Australian Museum For further information and to book your...
Ecoarts Australis Conference: Using the visual and performing arts to encourage pro-environmental behaviour University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales Sunday 26 May to Tuesday 28 May 2019 The third EcoArts Australis national conference is an opportunity for you to network and communicate with others who using the arts in...
Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for HACKING THE ANTHROPOCENE IV: DIT: DO-IT-TOGETHER Hacking the Anthropocene is a series of events founded in 2016 by Dr. Astrida Neimanis and co-hosted in 2017/2018 by Dr. Jennifer Hamilton of Composting Feminisms at Sydney University. In 2019 for the first time, Hacking the Anthropocene comes to Melbourne, hosted...
Thinking and Enacting Justice in a Multispecies World June 12 – 20 2019 The University of Sydney In June 2019, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Environment Institute will host a series of four international symposia to work...
Registrations are now open for the 7th ASLEC-ANZ biennial conference, Grounding Story, which will take place at the University of New England, Armidale, 13-15 February, 2019. Keynote speakers are Professor Greta Gaard, Associate Professor Thom van Dooren, Dr Daniel Hikuroa and Alison Whittaker. There is a generous early bird...
Registration is open for the upcoming symposium, Beyond Survival: Precarity, austerity, resilience at the University of Tasmania on October 23-24. The symposium features an exciting range of speakers from across HASS disciplines and the non-profit sector. Registration for this event is free. Please RSVP by October 18...