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2017 Events
Highlights from our 2017 event program
2017 highlights
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02/06/2017
Human health and climate change: risks and responses in low- and middle-income countries
In partnership with Sydney School of Public Health & School of Business, Interoperability in Extreme Events Research Group (IEERG)Explore -
02/07/2017
Climate change and climate politics: where to now?
In this workshop intellectuals, commentators and activists consider the question: where to now for meaningful climate action?Explore -
02/08/2017
The madhouse effect: climate change denial in the age of Trump
How climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy.Explore -
20/02/2017
Ecological democracy – looking back, looking forward
Examining the contributions of theories of ecological democracy and evaluate how (or if) they might respond to the current set of ecological, and democratic, challenges.Explore -
31/03/2017
Global warming and the mass bleaching of corals
Discussing the future of the Great Barrier Reef in the face of climate-induced coral bleaching.Explore -
26/04/2017
Food at Sydney series
SEI explores how individuals and communities can redesign their food systems in this series. Join us to learn how to tackle food insecurity and create healthier, more sustainable food systems in different spaces.Explore -
30/05/2017
Climate change and the quest for transformative fictions
Cli Fi aspires to envision a climate change culture for readers who are in some caseslosing their sense of what it means to be human, to strive for a common good, and tolove.Explore -
26/07/2017
Climate change in the city
Examining the effects of climate change on urban environmentsExplore -
05/09/2023
How humans made the Anthropocene biosphere
What does the geological record reveal about where we are headed?Explore -
27/09/2017
Renewable reinvention – global green shift?
What does a renewable energy future look like?Explore -
16/10/2017
Coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef with screening of ‘Chasing Coral’
Join us for a film screening followed by a panel discussion, including researchers from the University of Sydney’s One Tree Island Research Station, located in the Great Barrier Reef.Explore -
06/11/2017
Environmental justice 2017 – looking back, looking forward
A retrospective look at environmental justice scholarship and activism and the prospects and themes for current and future work in the field.Explore -
07/11/2017
The future of environmental justice
Reflecting on the meaning, and potential, of environmental justice as an idea, as an organising discourse, and as a political demand.Explore -
09/11/2017
Food justice in the city: toward a just and sustainable food system
How can we build fairer urban food systems in the face of growing climate challenges?Explore -
28/11/2017
Beyond the climate elephant: from climate denial to public engagement
This event is funded by the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre, as part of the POP-UP Research Lab, ‘Communicating heat & climate vulnerability through performance’.Explore -
04/12/2017
Carbon capitalism and communication, confronting climate crisis
A panel discussion and book launchExplore