Environmental Exchanges: Jakobina Arch
Seminar
Mitigating Risks of Coastal Sailing: Adaptations to Oceanic Dangers in Early-Modern Japan Associate Professor Jakobina Arch, Whitman College This presentation by Dr Jakobina Arch is part of Environmental Exchanges, a seminar series organised by the Centre for Environmental History to…
Deep Conversations: Restoration, Recovery, and Repair
Seminar
Deep Conversations: Restoration, Recovery and Repair Part I: Repatriation Amid a climate of crisis and ‘unprecedented times’, moments of destruction and devastation are intertwined with those of respite and renewal. By exploring these moments—their mechanisms and tensions—scholars can…
Environmental Exchanges: Sarah Bendall
Seminar
Whaling, Consumer Culture and Changing Understandings of the Natural World in Early Modern Europe Dr Sarah A. Bendall, Australian Catholic University This presentation by Dr Sarah A. Bendall is part of Environmental Exchanges, a seminar series organised by the Centre for…
Historians on Planetary Futures: Prof. Libby Robin
Webinar/Online
Join the Centre's Professor Emerita Libby Robin for her seminar, '"World-mindedness" and the Local: National Parks for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics'. The idea of “the environment”, a multi-faceted new understanding of the natural world, emerged in the 1940s. It was an integrating idea with…
Environmental Exchanges: Coll Thrush
Seminar
‘Wakes: Maritime Violence, Colonial Origin Stories, and Unfinished Business on the Northwest Coast’ Professor Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia This seminar is the first in the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges series. Please note that…
ICEHO Global Conversations: Prof. Grace Karskens
Webinar/Online
Join us for the latest ICEHO Global Conversations seminar, featuring Emeritus Professor Grace Karskens (UNSW) in discussion with Centre Director, Associate Professor Ruth Morgan. Professor Karskens will reflect on her latest award-winning book, People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia (…
Telling History through Country
Webinar/Online
How might history be told through Country? In what ways might Country speak? Country is more than the backdrop for history; it is an active participant within both its stories and their telling. In this roundtable discussion chaired by Rebe Taylor, historians Lorina Barker, Peter Read, and Ann…