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Closure for Whom? When 10,000 Years Isn’t Enough

31 October 2019

PhD researcher Gemma Viney reflects on the September 26 event Mining Legacies, which brought together a panel of experts in collaboration…

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The Non-Human Gaze: Mutual Vision and the Fatigue of Injustice 

24 October 2019

Honours Research Fellow Hal Conyngham reflects on the concept of Weltschmerz, a sense of melancholic pain precipitated by witnessing, and…

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Living Lab: Thinking Outside the HexBox

21 October 2019

Eduardo De Oliveira Barata from the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning talks with SEI Editor Liberty Lawson about computational…

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HfE Series: Listening for Coastal Futures

17 October 2019

“Tiny snapping shrimp make a punctuated vibration that sounds to human ears like a snapped finger or a dropped pebble……

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Ghostly Landscapes: Reflecting on Sunlit Noir and the Australian Gothic

16 October 2019

Mark Bosch explores the concept of the Australian Gothic as more than an aesthetic; instead, as a diffuse, miasmic quality…

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SEI Congratulates Kate Johnston!

16 October 2019

SEI is delighted to congratulate our Postdoctoral Research Fellow Kate Johnston and her partner on the birth of their daughter.…

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Enacting Corporate Social Responsibility with Rachel Mason Nunn

14 October 2019

Liv Arkell speaks with social development specialist and host of the Good Will Hunters podcast Rachel Mason Nunn ahead of The…

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Living Lab Series: Ben Pinney on Championing Sustainability in the USU

10 October 2019

For the next instalment of the Living Lab series, SEI editor Liberty Lawson sits down with operations manager Ben Pinney…

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Looking Beyond our Plates: Food in a Changing Climate

04 October 2019

We know how bad our modern appetites are for the planet, but diet-shaming evades more difficult questions about how we…

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Call for Applications: SEI’s 2020 Honours Research Fellowship

02 October 2019

Are you a University of Sydney student applying for Honours in 2020? Are you interested in researching the impacts of…

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MSJ Series: The Atmospheric Politics of Lively Capital

02 October 2019

The giant panda is a conservation icon, an anthropomorphised star of advertising campaigns that tells a fascinating story of affective force…

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Rhino Roulette: Impact Investors Set to Gamble on New ‘Rhino Bond’

25 September 2019

Following World Rhino Day on September 22, Benjamin Thompson asks whether the upcoming ‘rhino bond’ will be enough to help…

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The Evolution of the Living Lab

19 September 2019

Associate Professor Ruth Barcan reflects on the origins of the ‘Living Lab’ model of sustainability — as a vibrant innovative…

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See You in the Streets: The Climate Strike and Extinction Rebellion

18 September 2019

Accepting an award from Amnesty International on Monday, Greta Thunberg rightly said, “Activism works — so act“. And as we…

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No Wonder the Children Are Mad

16 September 2019

We have failed the next generation, and while many children are speaking out, many more are still forcibly engaged in the very…

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How to Talk About Climate Change (Without Losing Friends)

12 September 2019

Ahead of the Global Climate Strikes on September 20 and 27, twelve-year-old climate activist Belle shares a speech she gave…

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HfE Series: Extraction and the Environment at the African Observatory

11 September 2019

Kirsty Nepomuceno and Tafadzwa Mushonga from the University of Pretoria reflect on a recent colloquium hosted by the African Observatory…

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Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions

10 September 2019

Coiled up in the tiny shells of snails lie stories of loss and the struggle for ongoing life, of meaning…

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Living Lab Series: Sustainability Across Campus, From Wave Flumes to Waste Fighters

05 September 2019

Lisa Heinze takes us on a journey through the University as she explores past projects and future plans for the…

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Useless Beauty: Re-Politicising Australian Wildflowers

04 September 2019

Art historian and SEI researcher Ann Elias heralds the start of spring with a history of flowers in Australian art…

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Researchers Call For Equinor’s Environmental Audit To Be Made Public

29 August 2019

In an open letter to the Minister for the Environment, Professor Tina Soliman-Hunter, Professor Andrew Hopkins, Dr Madeline Taylor and…

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Questioning the Sustainability of ‘Clean Meat’

29 August 2019

Is cellular agriculture the way of the future, or is it just another techno-fix that avoids the bigger issues? As…

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Stealing Worlds Into Being: On Crows

28 August 2019

An excerpt from SEI Researcher Thom van Dooren’s new book, The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds,…

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Digital Geographies: Exploring the Shadows of Our Technological Landscapes

26 August 2019

Editor Liberty Lawson sits down with SEI Research Affiliate Jess McLean to talk about the material impact of technology, and…