Action Today for Tomorrow Series: A Journey to Climate Activism
On his journey from science education to starting a community organic farming initiative, Togolese activist Folli Herbert Amouzougan found his…
From a Transformative Election to Transformative Action: Institutionalising Care For Our Earthly Home
SEI researchers Danielle Celermajer and Erin Fitz-Henry consider why now is the time for continued hope, resistance and transformative action…
News
13 November 2019
INCUBATE is Sydney University’s award winning startup and entrepreneurship program, supporting innovation by students, alumni and researchers. The INCUBATE accelerator…
Opinion
11 November 2019
Instead of mitigating further development of high-risk coastal areas, adaptation policy in Australia has gone in the opposite direction, writes…
We sit down with our new postdoc Blanche Verlie, who has joined the Institute this week, to talk about her…
Congratulations to SEI Director David Schlosberg on his election to the Academy of Social Sciences this week, in recognition of…
07 November 2019
Steve Mentz reflects on swimmer poetics, his recent return to Australia and his hopes for a blue humanities that imitates…
05 November 2019
Video recordings from the 2019 MSJ Symposia are now available online, featuring local and international academics discussing the future of…
31 October 2019
PhD researcher Gemma Viney reflects on the September 26 event Mining Legacies, which brought together a panel of experts in collaboration…
24 October 2019
Honours Research Fellow Hal Conyngham reflects on the concept of Weltschmerz, a sense of melancholic pain precipitated by witnessing, and…
21 October 2019
Eduardo De Oliveira Barata from the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning talks with SEI Editor Liberty Lawson about computational…
17 October 2019
“Tiny snapping shrimp make a punctuated vibration that sounds to human ears like a snapped finger or a dropped pebble……
16 October 2019
Mark Bosch explores the concept of the Australian Gothic as more than an aesthetic; instead, as a diffuse, miasmic quality…
SEI is delighted to congratulate our Postdoctoral Research Fellow Kate Johnston and her partner on the birth of their daughter.…
14 October 2019
Liv Arkell speaks with social development specialist and host of the Good Will Hunters podcast Rachel Mason Nunn ahead of The…
10 October 2019
For the next instalment of the Living Lab series, SEI editor Liberty Lawson sits down with operations manager Ben Pinney…
04 October 2019
We know how bad our modern appetites are for the planet, but diet-shaming evades more difficult questions about how we…
02 October 2019
Are you a University of Sydney student applying for Honours in 2020? Are you interested in researching the impacts of…
The giant panda is a conservation icon, an anthropomorphised star of advertising campaigns that tells a fascinating story of affective force…
25 September 2019
Following World Rhino Day on September 22, Benjamin Thompson asks whether the upcoming ‘rhino bond’ will be enough to help…
19 September 2019
Associate Professor Ruth Barcan reflects on the origins of the ‘Living Lab’ model of sustainability — as a vibrant innovative…
18 September 2019
Accepting an award from Amnesty International on Monday, Greta Thunberg rightly said, “Activism works — so act“. And as we…
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…
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…
11 September 2019
Kirsty Nepomuceno and Tafadzwa Mushonga from the University of Pretoria reflect on a recent colloquium hosted by the African Observatory…
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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