Environmental Exchanges is the Centre for Environmental History’s regular seminar series. Launched in February 2022, Environmental Exchanges is an opportunity to showcase and discuss innovative new research that engages with key themes in environmental history.

These seminars are open to all and are held in hybrid format, with attendees either gathering in-person in the RSSS Building at the ANU's Acton campus or joining remotely via Zoom. To receive the room location or Zoom link for a specific seminar, follow the registration link on that seminar's event page.  We welcome enquiries related to attending or presenting at seminars in the Environmental Exchanges series. Please contact Ruth Morgan for further information. 

To be notified of upcoming seminars in this series, you can register for the Centre for Environmental History's mailing list. The Centre's mailing list goes out once a fortnight and includes details of upcoming seminars and workshops, new publications, relevant opportunities, and calls for papers.  

Each semester's seminar program is organised around a single broad theme. The theme for our Semester One 2023 seminars was Climate and Semester Two was Extraction. Each seminar engaged with these themes in distinct ways, and we aim to reflect the diversity of times, places, methods, and perspectives that historians explore in their work.
 

Environmental Exchanges Series Semester 2 (2023): Extraction

Wednesday 9th August, 12:30-1:45pm, Belinda Smaill - 'From Extraction to Wilderness: The Last Wild River and Rethinking the Transformations of 1970s Australian Film Culture' [recording available on the CEH YouTube here]

Wednesday 30th August, 1:00-2:15pm, Devika Shankar - 'Freedom of the Fish: Water and Property in Colonial India' [recording available on the CEH YouTube here]

Wednesday 27th September, 12:30-1:45pm, Rohan Howitt - 'Oil from Penguins: Mentalities of Extraction in the Southern Ocean World, 1889-1933'

Wednesday 18th October, 9:30-10:45am, Lianne Leddy - 'Confronting Uranium Extraction on Anishinaabe Territory: A Case Study from Canada'

Environmental Exchanges Series Semester 1 (2023): Climate

Wednesday 8 March, 12:30-1:45pm, Claire Lowrie - ‘Hill station for whom?’: Chinese elites, hill stations and contested racial discrimination in interwar colonial Malaya and the Philippines [recording available on the CEH YouTube here]

Wednesday 29 March, 12:30-1:45pm, Clark Alejandrino - When the female Typoon Mother transformed into a male Wind God: a high-resolution history of typhoons in Qing China [recording available on the CEH YouTube here]

Wednesday 19 April, 12:30-1:45pm, Philip Gooding - Rainfall variability and its effects on 18^th-19^th-century East African history [recording available on the CEH YouTube here]

Wednesday 17 May, 12:30-1:45pm, Ruth Morgan - Climate, diplomacy and development since 1985 [recording available on the CEH YouTube here]

For information about seminars in the 2022 series, please see the Environmental Exchanges Archive page.

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