In conjunction with a public lecture as part of the Spectacle of Science event at Macquarie University (8 November 2018), Oron Catts, artist and Director of SymbioticA, will be leading a workshop from 10am-1pm on 9 November 2018. The workshop will be held at Macquarie...
China’s environmental challenge and eco-civilisation: a multidisciplinary approach to the Anthropocene The University of Sydney 14 to 18 January, 2019 Call for Applications: The 2019 Graduate Workshop on China in the Urban Age The University of Sydney is organising the inaugural graduate workshop of the China Studies Centre’s recently...
Feminist Posthumanisms: Lives in Ruins A workshop with Cate Sandiland 16 July, 2018 10 am – 12:30pm SOPHI Common Room (822 Brennan McCallum Building) University of Sydney In conjunction with a public lecture as part of the HUMANNATURE Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series (13 July 2018), Professor Catriona...
The Centre For Deep Reading is inviting expressions of interest for our Winter Reading Retreat at Tyraman Retreat in the Hunter Valley from July 3rd - 12th, 2018. What is the reading retreat? The retreat is a temporary reading collective made of fifteen people (plus...
Beyond Survival: Austerity, precarity, resilience Symposium at the University of Tasmania October 23 - 24, 2018 Inquiries to Naomi Milthorpe at naomi.milthorpe@utas.edu.au. In periods of extended crisis, individual and collective goals orient towards concepts of “survival”. Acceptable definitions of survival are contested and the conditions for survival are vulnerable to exploitation...
Public presentation by Dr Lisa Slater (University of Wollongong), with responses from Dr Emily Potter (Deakin) and Professor Lyn McCredden (Deakin) When: Friday June 15, 3-4.30pm Where: Deakin Downtown, Level 12/727 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3008 ‘Desiring Belonging: white anxiety, anti-colonial spatiality and Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals’ In this paper, I return...
Environmental writing: creativity and social efficacy Event Details: Date: Thursday, 7 June 2018 Time: 9 am – 5 pm Venue: William Macmahon Ball Theatre Old Arts Building University of Melbourne Parkville 3000 Enquiries: Dr Amanda Johnson: amandaj@unimelb.edu.au Dr Saskia Beudel: Saskia.Beudel@canberra.edu.au Bookings: Bookings are essential for this free symposium. Register at http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/creative Over the course of its...
The Anthropocene names a new geological epoch where “Man” is a determining cause of planetary systems change. But who and what is missing from this headline of “humans destroying the planet”? In its third iteration, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton have invited an extraordinary...
The National Arboretum Canberra presents two fungus workshops with natural historian and environmental photographer, Alison Pouliot. These workshops introduce participants to the diversity, ecology and curiosities of the Kingdom Fungi, specific to fungi found in the region, but also within wider Australian and international contexts. They include...
Artist in Residency Program Call for Applications for Artist in Residence 2018, School of Geography, University of Melbourne The School of Geography in association with the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne seeks applicants for its Artist in Residency Program commencing June 2017....