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From community responses to the devastating NSW floods to the new technologies driving our energy transition, engage with current events and our latest research through our public talks and seminars, available on demand.
2024 Events
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13/02/2024
Listening to earth
Created by sound artist Diana Chester, composer Damien Ricketson and artist Fausto Brusamolino, Listening to Earth explores the vibrational interplay between the sea and the land. Recordings of NSW coastal environments captured with microphones, hydrophones, geophones as well as custom-built listening instruments have been recomposed and configured for a specially designed listening room.Explore -
03/11/2024
The 2024 Iain McCalman Lecture
As climate change intensifies and resource extraction erodes complex ecosystems, many people are experiencing profound grief over the loss of species, landscapes and their cultural connections. Environmental anthropologist, Dr Sophie Chao, presents the 2024 Iain McCalman Lecture exploring the Indigenous Marind People’s practice of ‘multispecies mourning’ in West Papua. Join us in exploring how commemorating lives lost and forging multispecies solidarities can be an act of resistance to the ongoing ecological upheaval.Explore -
25/03/2024
Biodiversity, Conservation, and Culture meet and greet
“Biodiversity, Conservation, and Culture” is one of the core research themes of the Sydney Environment Institute. Please join the Sydney Environment Institute for a meet and greet among biodiversity researchers.Explore -
04/08/2024
Oceanic narratives: interweaving past, present and future
James Bradley’s latest book, Deep Water, joins new scholarship that reckons with humanity’s complex relationship to the natural world. Through the lens and narratives of the ocean, it offers vital new ways of understanding and being in the world, and how we anticipate our climate future.Explore -
04/11/2024
The radical work of mourning: the power of grief in a time of extinction
This event explored the surprising and moving possibilities for radical care, hope, and action in an unlikely place: the work of mourning. Our panel will discussed the activities of some of the many scholars, artists, and activists embracing mourning as a form of transformative ethical and political work in the extinction crisis.Explore -
17/05/2024
We can’t save the climate by destroying nature
Hear from leading voices as they explore the intersection of the climate and biodiversity crises and share how we can achieve a unified approach to planetary challenges.Explore -
21/05/2024
Collaborative Grant Impact Forum
We would like to invite you to join us for SEI’s Collaborative Grant Impact Forum.Explore -
31/05/2024
Measuring Energy Insecurity workshop
The workshop aims to convene stakeholders from academia, government, and community sectors to explore more effective methods of measuring energy accessibility and insecurity, fostering discussions to enhance policymaking and support for underserved populations in energy transition efforts.Explore -
20/06/2024
Centring nature in the transformation of urban spaces
In partnership with Henry Halloran Trust, an expert panel discussed how concepts of multispecies justice can inform planning for nature-based solutions, striving to rebalance the relationship between human development and the environment.Explore -
21/06/2024
Multispecies Justice and Urban Transitions workshop
SEI hosted a multidisciplinary workshop on Multispecies Justice and Urban Transitions with visiting scholar Professor Christopher Raymond from the University of Helsinki.Explore -
07/02/2024
Re-imagining the laws of nature
In this seminar, Dr Michelle Lim, Sydney Law School's George Flannery Fellow, argues that rewriting legal systems to include more-than-human perspectives and employing creative writing in legal scholarship can help address global biodiversity loss, reimagine law, and foster hopeful, normalised human-nature relationships.Explore -
07/04/2024
More Than a Fish Kill
Join us for a special screening of More than a Fish Kill, a documentary exploring how artists, fishery managers, and First Nations custodians processed the 2019 and 2023 fish death events along the Darling River.Explore -
24/07/2024
Environmental justices: developing multidisciplinary research meet and greet
This “meet and greet” session aims to foster multidisciplinary understanding and collaboration among researchers working on environmental, climate and multi species justice at the University of Sydney.Explore -
31/07/2024
Biodiversity, conservation, and culture: developing Multidisciplinary Research workshop
This workshop aims to bring together diverse perspectives and expertise, in order to start a discussion on where multidisciplinary research can help answer questions or address gaps in key documents and reports that are influencing current policy, programs and funding for biodiversity, conservation, and culture.Explore -
20/08/2024
University of Sydney Climate Research Forum
The Climate Research Forum is an opportunity to bring together researchers working on climate change research at the University of Sydney for a day of inspiring conversations, network building and shaping the University’s climate narrative.Explore -
22/08/2024
Natural solutions: seawalls are not the only climate buffer
Explore the critical role of nature-based solutions in protecting communities from climate-driven disasters, with experts from Australia, the Philippines, and Fiji sharing insights on integrating justice and biodiversity into climate adaptation.Explore -
18/09/2024
Will putting a price on nature protect it?
Join us as leading voices from business, conservation and academia explore if valuing nature economically can lead to responsible environmental stewardship or if it undermines its innate value.Explore -
25/09/2024
Socio-ecological transitions from indigenous contexts: Mobile resurgences of Mapuche communities in Wallmapu, Chile
Join us for a hybrid seminar featuring Associate Professor Gonzalo Salazar Preece, currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Gonzalo's seminar will be followed by a Q&A.Explore -
16/10/2024
Meeting the moment: lessons from the 'once in a lifetime' investment of the Biden Administration in Environmental Justice
Renowned scholar Kyle Whyte will share his experiences serving the Biden administration, environmental justice organisations, and Tribal nations.Explore -
16/10/2024
The polycrisis in the critical minerals supply chain
Speakers from SEI will be featured in this plenary session exploring the complex implications of mining critical minerals for the global energy transition. As demand for minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel grows, so do the ecological, social, and political challenges tied to their extraction.Explore -
16/10/2024
Roundtable on democratic experimentation and sustainability transformations
This roundtable session explores the role of democratic experimentation in driving sustainability transformations, comparing insights from diverse case studies across regions.Explore -
28/10/2024
Climate justice: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development's insights on loss and damage
As climate disasters intensify, join us for a rare chance to hear UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development Professor Surya Deva unveil his Climate Justice: Loss and Damage report, just days after its presentation to the UN General Assembly.Explore