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Australian Animal Studies Group (AASG) Conference 2015 Convened by the Australian Centre and the Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE) The University of Melbourne, July 12-15, 2015 The call for papers...
My School at ASU, in conjunction with the School of Sustainability, is looking to hire a TT Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities. The job description is here: http://shprs.clas.asu.edu/about/faculty-positions I expect many of...
Public Lecture in the Environmental Humanities, University of New South Wales In this presentation I reflect on a project called ‘Synthetic Aesthetics’, which brought together synthetic biologists and artists and designers...
Mandy Martin’s exhibition Playing with Fire continues to draw from a two year study in the Paruku Indigenous Protected Area around Lake Gregory in the south east Kimberly. Martin’s knowledge...
Celebrity chefs exhorting us to eat less and buy local; mobile phone apps promoting ‘swopping not shopping’; supermarkets selling ‘guilt free’, Fair Trade products—wealthy capitalist societies around the world appear...
Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel December 2014. ISBN 9781742233352. UNSW Press, 256pp, PB, 250 × 150 mm, RRP AU$49.99 NZ$59.99 What happens when artists, architects, writers, designers and curators take on the planning of a city? In...
Thinking through the Anthropocene: Museums, Humanities, Art November 2014 has seen some big international events in understanding global change. It is a very exciting time when ‘interdisciplinary’ means Art meets Science...
Deadline for Submissions is December 7. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.aslebiennialconference.com/ Submissions information and online form: http://www.aslebiennialconference.com/submitting-a-proposal.html In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents at an important historical...
Helen Pynor’s new work transverses the thematic currents of art – science collaborations and ‘Human – Animal studies’ in contemporary art, making this exhibition astutely avant-garde. 'The Accidental Primate’ explores human-bat...
Lectures from the Affective Habitus conference (June 2014) are now online at: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/affective-habitus.aspx Further talks will be added as they are edited and uploaded. ...