Contextualising the Climate Crisis: Climate change and the beginning of the crisis decades
Workshop
As the planet enters the ‘era of global boiling’, as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres put it in mid-2023, the urgency of arresting the climate crisis has never been greater. Bringing together expertise from geography, history, international relations, law, political science, and…
A Critique of Human Supremacism: Towards a New Sense of Reverence for the Planet.
Lecture
The Third Biennial Robin-Griffiths Lecture in Environmental History, ANU Centre for Environmental HistoryReception: 5.30–6.30pm | Lecture: 6.30–8pmFrom the seventeenth century on, European thinkers developed - often from religious principles - theories of human supremacism that eventually…
Holy Ground? A conversation about religion in environmental history
Lecture
God, and gods, tend to play a muted role in Australian environmental histories. The diverse religious experiences of First Nations and settler peoples grappling with a land once denounced as the ‘most godless place under heaven’ are yet to be fully explored or historicised. Yet religious beliefs…
Licinia Eudoxia: Writing the Life of a Fifth-Century Empress
Seminar
Content warning: this talk includes references to incidents of sexual violence.The Empress Licinia Eudoxia (c. 422–470CE) lived an extraordinary life. Born the daughter of an east Roman emperor at Constantinople, as a teenager she travelled to Italy to marry her cousin, the west Roman emperor, and…
Vulnerable Life Writing: A conversation about the ethics, politics, and craft of telling hardship stories
Seminar
In this special seminar Dr Kim Huynh (ANU) will discuss the ethics, politics, and craft of telling hardship stories in a conversation with Emeritus Professor Christine Helliwell about Kim's latest book, My Old Man and Me: A story of escape, survival and caring.Kim Huynh is an author, senior…
Approaching the International Life of Coral Bell
Seminar
Coral Bell (1923-2012) was a Sydney-born scholar of world politics. Following half a decade as a diplomat in the postwar Australian Department of External Affairs, she sailed to London to start postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics. A distinguished international career followed,…