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2019 Events
Highlights from our 2019 event program
2019 highlights
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13/03/2018
Reading Environments series
Reading Environments is a new series of gatherings sponsored by the Sydney Environment Institute and open to staff and students from across the University of Sydney.Explore -
15/02/2018
HumanNature series
In this landmark series of talks, the Australian Museum is proud to host a stellar line up of leading Australian and international scholars.Explore -
02/06/2019
The Inaugural Iain McCalman Lecture
Join the Sydney Environment Institute in celebrating the career of retiring Co-Director, and distinguished historian, Professor Iain McCalman AO, as we launch ‘The Iain McCalman Lecture’.Explore -
15/02/2019
The law is in the land
The Law is in the Land is a mini-symposium intended to provide the opportunity for exploring and experiencing multiple ways of knowing and relating to natural environments and their governance implications.Explore -
21/02/2019
Culture, trust, and systems: local and democratic politics for the Anthropocene
This Sydney Environment Institute and Sydney Ideas event examines a variety of ways of rethinking local politics for more sustainable and democratic ends.Explore -
06/03/2019
Making Space series
Making Space is the latest public program from the Sydney Environment Institute, and this time, we’ve added a twist. Curated by Michelle St Anne, this off-campus series partners with 107 Projects to ask what happens when performers, artists and academics approach the act of ‘making space’ hand in hand.Explore -
15/03/2019
Tiwi+Jazz: Ngarukuruwala – we sing
‘Ngarukuruwala means we sing songs. The Tiwi Strong Women’s Group don’t really ‘rehearse’ or ‘perform’ – they come together to sing. They don’t really see themselves as a choir. They are a group of women who share a connection through the songs they know, create and sing together nearly everyday.’Explore -
19/03/2019
Film screening: Wild Waters
The Great Australian Bight is at risk from experimental oil drilling and seismic blasting that has the potential to deafen whales, displace fish and destroy smaller marine life.Explore -
23/04/2019
The Great Australian Bight workshop
The Great Australian Bight represents one of the last remaining and most valuable pristine marine ecosystems in Australia – home to diverse marine life, aquaculture and ecotourism resources.Explore -
14/05/2019
Writing the Pacific in critical and creative practice
A workshop with Craig Santos PerezExplore -
16/05/2019
Thinking like (and for) a planet
Join visiting scholar Professor Frank Biermann (Utrecht University), along with Professor David Schlosberg, Professor Glenda Sluga, and Associate Professor Susan Park for an interactive public panel discussion.Explore -
22/05/2019
Business making of climate change series
Join a panel of academic experts & practitioners to discuss how businesses might move beyond inadequate approaches to environmental sustainability.Explore -
19/06/2019
Biodiversity and extinction: can we achieve justice for all?
Climate change, resource extraction and increasing levels of extinction present unprecedented challenges. How can the humanities and social sciences help us to respond to the biodiversity crisis in a more just way, which transforms how we protect the foundations of life on our planet?Explore -
08/07/2019
Culture in conversation: creating inclusive food communities
This event is run in partnership with FoodLab Sydney, YARN Australia, and the University of Sydney Union. It is part of the Sydney Environment Institute’s NAIDOC Week celebrations and our ongoing Food [at] Sydney Series.Explore -
11/07/2019
The re-(e)mergence of nature in culture II
This event is part of the Sydney Environment Institute’s NAIDOC Week celebrations.Explore -
26/09/2019
Mining legacies
Join a panel of experts as they challenge Australia’s current approach to managing mining legacies, embracing ethical, economic, environmental and social perspectives in an exploration of responsible mine closure.Explore -
24/10/2019
Unsettling ecological poetics
A symposium and workshop sponsored by the Sydney Environment Institute in collaboration with the Visiting Indigenous Writers Program.Explore -
29/10/2019
Swimming into the blue humanities
Join SEI in welcoming visiting scholar Professor Steve Mentz for his keynote lecture, Swimming Into the Blue Humanities.Explore -
21/11/2019
Environmental disasters symposium
We are living in a rapidly changing world. Temperatures are rising around the globe, the frequency and intensity of weather extremes is increasing, and human and natural systems are interacting and compounding with exponential complexity and unpredictability.Explore