The ANU Centre for Environmental History is pleased to announce that Professor Sandra Swart will present the 2024 Robin-Griffiths Environmental History Lecture. This Lecture honours the Centre’s founders, and AANZEHN members, Emeritus Professors Libby Robin and Tom Griffiths, who have generously fostered the field of environmental history and cultivated a community of scholars across Australia and beyond.

The lecture, entitled Kinship: how to live in a more-than-human world, will explore the deep connections between people and animals, troubling the persistent and dangerous idea that human-wildlife relationships are ancillary to ‘pristine’ or nonhuman interfaces in how we envision ‘Nature’ more broadly. Professor Swart will show how historicising elephants and human-wildlife relations helps to avoid romanticising them. Ultimately, Professor Swart argues that animals have history, and these histories are vital to their futures.

This event will be hosted at 6-8pm on Tuesday 24 October in the ANU’s RSSS Auditorium. For more information, and to register for this free event, see here.