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Review of Curating the Future

Curating the Future, edited by Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin and Kirsten Wehner, recently received a positive review by Rick Torben of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History: ‘I strongly recommend this volume to any

Sentinels of the Anthropocene: Ibis

Cameron Muir has published a short history of why the white Ibis has been displaced from itshabitat in the inland river systems of Australia and forced to migrate to urban environments to survive. Beginning in the 1960s and 70s,

‘Localising the Anthropocene’ in South East Asia

In late October Cameron Muir organised and presented a special panel at the Fourth Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2017). Ten presenters had 7 minutes each to tell a story through an object that illustrated connections between

Article on debate over the term ‘Anthropocene’

Everyday Futures team member Libby Robin has published a research paper in The Anthropocene Review, titled ‘Stratigraphy for the Renaissance: Questions of expertise for ‘the environment’ and ‘the Anthropocene” (written with her international collaborators, Paul Warde and Sverker Sörlin). The

Article on Environmental humanities and climate change

Libby Robin on the role of the Environmental Humanities in the Anthropocene Abstract The task of reconceptualising planetary change for the human imagination calls on a wide range of disciplinary wisdom. Environmental studies were guided by the natural sciences

Essay on migration, borders and the Anthropocene

The remixing of peoples: Migration as adaptation In the summer of 2015, Greek photojournalist Tasos Markou journeyed to Lesvos to cover the story of the ‘great exodus’. What he saw there changed him. He became a volunteer, and then ran

Museums Collaborating Around Climate Change: A workshop

Jenny Newell organised the Third Museums and Climate Change Network workshop, on the topic of ‘Museums Collaborating Around Climate Change,’ held at the Australian Museum on 20 July 2017. The aims were to share what we are all currently doing

Shadow Places: An Anthropocene visual essay

Cameron Muir’s photographic essay uses images to explore Val Plumwood’s concept of ‘shadow places’. These are the physical sites of exploitation, pollution and degradation that are the price we pay for desirable commodities and lifestyles in other parts of the

Anthropocene in museums workshop

Curators and researchers from the National Museum of Australia, Western Australian Museum, Museums Victoria and the Australian Museum met in Canberra on Friday 23 June 2017 to discuss our projects and explore the approaches we are taking to the concept

Participatory Environmental Humanities Workshop

This 2-day workshop was held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, from 18–19 July 2017. The workshop explored some of the many public faces of the environmental humanities, with a particular focus on the