THREE Postdoctoral Research Associate positions in human geography to start in 2011. The posts, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, are for researchers whose work is linked to issues relating…
National Museum of Australia Student Prize 2011
The National Museum of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science through its National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science invite submissions for the 2011 National Museum of Australia…
The Cold War and the Anthropocene: 1945-25,945 A.D.
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…