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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...

05 June, 2018 /

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...

29 May, 2018 /

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...

22 May, 2018 /

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...

03 May, 2018 /

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...

16 April, 2018 /

Eating the Anthropocene: What and how should we eat in a climate changing world? Keynote speaker: Mike Goodman (University of Reading) April 26-27, 2018 Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University Further information: https://groundworkgeop.wordpress.com/blog The meatification, standardisation, and globalisation of diets has contributed to food systems and cultures that both...

05 March, 2018 /
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