06 Nov ABR Environment Issue
Australian Book Review has just released its first issue devoted to theme of 'the environment'. Highlights include Tom Griffiths' essay 'Coming of age in the great acceleration', Alison Pouliot’s superb...
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06 Nov CFP Human migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention (Durham, UK) – 2015
28 June-1 July 2015, Durham University Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor David Held (Durham University) Professor Wendy Brown (UC, Berkeley) Professor Claire Colebrook (Penn State) Professor Walter Kälin (University of Bern) Conference website: http://dogweb.dur.ac.uk/costconference New submission deadline: 12...
29 Oct Lecture: The Lie of the Land. Prof John Dixon Hunt
This is a rare opportunity to hear one of the world's leading garden historian's speak. The presentation explores the 'feigned truth' of landscape architecture by invoking six different designs from...
24 Oct Heaven & Earth Writers Festival, Sydney (25 October 2014)
The 2014 Heaven & Earth Writers Festival will be held on Saturday 25 October 2014 at the Chevalier Resource Centre, 1 Roma Ave, Kensington, Sydney. Join us in celebration of all things literary,...
24 Oct The Anthropocene Slam: Cabinet of Curiosities (Madison, Wisconsin) – 8-10 Nov. Livestreamed
WISCONSIN INSTITUTES FOR DISCOVERY DELUCA FORUM MADISON DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI All events are free and open to the public and livestreamed from this site: http://nelson.wisc.edu/che/anthroslam/about/index.php We...
23 Oct Life after the Anthropocene Seminar Series (Oxford) – Nov 2014 – May 2015
An interdisciplinary seminar series for 2014-2015 (http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/anthropocene) Organisers: Jamie Lorimer and Jamie Castell Theme The Anthropocene heralds a new epoch, initiated once humans became a geological force. It marks a planetary event: the moment...
23 Oct CFP Animal Publics: Emotions, Empathy, Activism (AASG, Melbourne: July 12-15, 2015)
6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Animal Studies Group (AASG): July 12-15, 2015. Convened by the Australian Centre and the Human Rights & Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE), University of Melbourne. Call for Papers Open...
22 Oct Sawyer Seminar on the Environmental Humanities (UCLA) – November 2014 to June 2015
Organizers: Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann This Mellon Sawyer Seminar on the Environmental Humanities will bring visiting scholars from around the US and the world to UCLA for...
22 Oct AGRIFOOD XXI: Food Planet People
Never in human history has our interconnected global food system faced the diversity, intensity, and urgency of challenges that it faces today. Our global population has exploded, with an unprecedented...
21 Oct Animal Publics: Emotions, Empathy, Activism
6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Animal Studies Group (AASG): July 12-15, 2015. Convened by the Australian Centre and the Human Rights & Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE), University of Melbourne. The human/nonhuman animal...