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History Matters: Water and Drought Histories The new decade has been heralded in Australia by drought, bushfires and flood capturing the attention nationally and making headlines around the world. Environmental histories in Australia bring into focus our challenging...

MUSHROOM WORKSHOPS NOW ONLINE Although the world is in lockdown, the fungi are running riot out there in the forest! The recent rains could mean we are in for a bumper fungus season.  Why do fungi matter in our forests and gardens?  What makes Australian...

Flows, Histories, and Politics of Pollution in Europe (17–20 Century) 28 August to 29 August 2020, Munich Abstracts due: 1 June 2020 The contamination of air and water with industrial and residual wastes has in many ways influenced the birth of environmental movements...

WEA, Sydney/ Colong for Wilderness Discussion Group course -  Wombats, Wattle, Wilderness, World Heritage and Wellbeing Wombats, Wattle, Wilderness, World Heritage and Wellbeing is now available for study.  This joint initiative between the Colong Foundation...

The DFG Emmy-Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy” welcomes you to the conference “Hazardous Hope: Exploring New Ways of Narrating Toxic Bodies and Landscapes?” The conference will take place at the Rachel Carson Center...

Call for papers Restoring Forests in Times of Contagion We are seeking papers on the history and policy of tree planting to restore Australian and New Zealand forests and landscapes. They will be published on-line concurrently as a collection in...