John McNeill Georgetown University Public Lecture Tuesday 26 October 5-6.30 pm Venue: Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1, ANU We live in an era of unprecedented human impact on earth systems…
The Big Wet: History, Art, Science and Community in the Desert Channels
Friday 22 October 2010, 12.30pm to 2pm Visions Theatre, National Museum of Australia One of Australia’s best known artists, Mandy Martin, together with historian Libby Robin and zoologist Chris Dickman…
Seminar: ‘Sisters of the South’
‘Sisters of the South’: Australian-South African botanic exchange and the origins of comparative climatic forestry in South Africa c.1881-1994 Brett Bennett, University of Texas at Austin/University of Western Sydney Wednesday,…
New book – Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve
Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, Mandy Martin CSIRO PUBLISHING, 352 pages, Hardback, Colour illustrations, ISBN:9780643097490, $59.95. Desert Channels is a book that combines art, science and history to explore the ‘impulse…
The Gifts of the Furies
by Glenda Cloughley A mythic story-song about relations between people and Earth Musical Director – Johanna McBride Inspired by The Oresteia by Aeschylus and Tom Bass’s sculpture Ethos, the spirit…
Gippsland environments and human interaction: past, present and future
Dates: Workshop: Friday 22 October 2010 Conference: Friday 25 and Saturday 26 October 2011 These academic and community events examine the ways in which the people of Gippsland respond to…