highlights from past events

Our events cluster around three main themes:
 

Dialogues: Cross-Cultural, Cross-Disciplinary, Toward Challenge

  • 2001 Roundtable with Peter Harries-Jones, York University, Toronto (April, ANU)
  • 2001 Inaugural Meeting of the Ecological Humanities Working Group (3 August)
  • 2001 Aboriginal Elders Teaching Program (September, ANU, National Museum of Australia, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
  • 2002 Meeting of the Ecological Humanities Working Group (November 5, ANU)
  • 2003 Joint Management in New South Wales and Beyond, Workshop with Aboriginal Elders (2 September, ANU)
  • 2003 ‘Humanities Perspectives on Sustainability’, Roundtable discussion (13 May, ANU; with Fulbright Fellow Paul Faulstich)
  • 2003 New Ideas Workshop (7 August, ANU)
  • 2004 Symposium: Multicentric Materialisations in Environmental Thought, with Anthony Weston, Elon University, (20 July, ANU) 
  • 2008 Climate Change and the ‘Crisis of Reason’: A Symposium to Honour the Life and Work of Val Plumwood, (20 June, ANU)

 
Interspecies Relationships

  • 2000: Workshop: Interspecies Collaborations – Humans and Animals Together (13 December, ANU)
  • 2001 Symposium: Speaking of Danger: Discourses and Debates around Endangered Species (19 October, ANU)
  • 2002 Symposium: Marauding Beasts of the Australian Bush ( 8 November, ANU)
  • 2004 Symposium: Multicentric Materialisations in Environmental Thought (20 July, ANU)
  • 2006 People and Animals in Film ~ Natasha Fijn: ‘The Nadaam’; Matthew Higgins: ‘Echidnarama’ and ‘Winter Road’ (June, ANU)
  • 2006 Death and Extinction in Multi-Species Environments (9 October, ANU)

 
 Place: Connectivity, collaboration, catastrophe

  •  2004 Desecration: A Symposium (14 May,  ANU)
  • 2005 Symposium: Master class on place with Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (10 March, ANU)
  • 2006 Symposium: Flows, Stoppages and Pulses (5 December, ANU)
  • 2007 Symposium: Master class on place with Kate Rigby, Monash University (27 September, ANU)
  • 2007 Symposium in honour of Eric Rolls (4 December, ANU)