Commemoration of the life and work of Deborah Bird Rose
When: Sunday 24 March, 1-4pm Where: Fitzpatrick Park, Georges River National Park (details below) Please RSVP online by Saturday 16 March: Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018) was an…
Writing the Country
The CEH's Tom Griffiths and Cameron Muir have essays in the environment edition of Griffith Review, 'Writing the Country', edited by Julianne Schultz and Ashley Hay. The planet is alive: Radical…
Still Smouldering? Black Saturday 10 Years On
Black Saturday left deep scars on our landscapes and our lives. Ten years on, how do we remember the events, navigate the accompanying trauma, and prepare for future fires? As the…
Daniel May on Black Friday bushfires anniversary
Daniel May will be talking on ABC Overnights on Monday 20 Janurary about the 80th anniversary of the Black Friday bushfires of 1939. What happened? Why were they significant? What's changed? Tune in…
The Environment: A History of the Idea
Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin Johns Hopkins University Press (2018) Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the…
An event to honour Tom Griffiths
History, nature, and nation: Tom Griffiths and Australian history symposium This symposium honoured Tom’s move from full-time academic life to a full-time writing life. Papers from eminent…
Archives of the Anthropocene
Harriet Mercer writes about the ways historians incorporate geological and natural history evidence in the Anthropocene in an article for History Workshop Journal. "By embracing the archives of the…