Ninth Biennial Environmental History PhD workshop

Participants in the Environmental History PhD Workshop

Tuesday 3 July 2018
From 28 May to 1 June the Centre for Environmental History welcomed fifteen doctoral students from around the world to its ninth Biennial Environmental History PhD workshop. International guest Professor Christof Mauch joined workshop teachers Professor Tom Griffiths, Professor Heather Goodall, and Professor Libby Robin.  Students are taught in the tradition established on the ANU campus by the distinguished historian, Professor Greg Dening (1931-2008), with whom we were fortunate to teach in his ‘Challenges to Perform’ workshops from 1998 to 2006. Students are encouraged to reflect on their responsibility to communicate what is important to them, think deeply about the craft of history writing, as well as explore different modes of communication, or ‘performance’, for different audiences.     The workshop is sponsored by the Centre for Environmental History (School of History, RSSS, ANU), the Fenner School of Environment and Society (ANU), the National Museum of Australia, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (LMU, Munich).

Image Gallery

In conversation with Christof Mauch|Libby Robin in conversation with Christof Mauch|Heather Goodall on cultures of water|Marg Hickey on The Pastoral and Rural Place in Contemporary Australian Literature|Amy Way on the History of Antiquity in Australia|Exploring Marion Marrison's photography|Exploring Marion Marrison's photography|Marion Marrison on Exploring a Local Landscape through Photography|Marion's photography|Marion's photography|Tianna Killoran on The Deep North and the Near North |Max Findley Rationalizing Disaster|Christof and Tom|Susanne, Harriet and Amy pitching an Anthropocene exhibition|Tianna, Briohny and Marg pitch their Anthropocene exhibition|Jesse, Leith and Jasper on their Anthropocene object|Melissa, Sarah, Max, and Johanna |Tom|Samantha Lang on Brown Lake|Tom reads at the soiree|Bernadette's cooking|Bernadette's cooking|Literary soiree|Literary soiree|Saul Cunningham enjoying the soiree, Marg prepares to give a reading|Literary soiree|Book table|Environmental History group therapy|Returning to Environmental History|Group shot|Class of 2018|Tom planning a field trip