SYMPOSIUM: Environmental Humanities Symposium

This symposium will highlight the potential of the environmental humanities in Western Australia today by bringing together a diverse group of scholars to exchange ideas about interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary ecological research in the Southwest region, the State and internationally.

Programme

PART I: Environmental Humanities Presentations

*Tony Hughes-D’Aeth (UWA) - Wolf Willow and Wild Card: Memoir and Ecology in Southwest Australia and Southwest Saskatchewan

*Andrea Gaynor (UWA) - Perth in Declining Rainfall: A More-Than-Human History

*Laura Skates (UWA) - Beauty and Horror: The Cultural History of Carnivorous Plants

PART II: Forest Family Presentations

*Rod Giblett (Deakin) - Family Trees: Jarrah, Karri and the Gibletts of the Balbarrup-Dingup Area

*John Ryan (UWA, UNE) - From Burls to Blockades: Artistic Interpretations of Karri Trees and Forests

*Robin Ryan (WAAPA, ECU) - Sing the Karri, Sculpt the Jarrah: Sustaining Old-Growth Forest Through the Arts

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