Writing in the Midst of a World in Peril
In the lead up to the publication of her new book Summertime, Deputy Director Danielle Celermajer reflects on the process of…
Understanding Nature with Dr Dalia Nassar
SEI editor Liberty Lawson sits down with the 2021 Iain McCalman Lecture keynote speaker Dr Dalia Nassar to talk about…
Storying Extinction: A Reflection on Loss, Crisis, and Co-existence
Sophie Chao meditates on the power of storytelling as a means of remembering and repairing multispecies connections in times of…
Opinion
14 January 2020
The Prime Minister’s stalwart coal fetish has driven us into the arms of disaster, and his new stance, a flailing…
09 January 2020
Fires incarnate in vivid ways the double meaning of the Anthropocene – an era of unprecedented human control and of its…
News
08 January 2020
At the dawn of this new decade, few words sound so hollow as ‘Happy New Year’. Over the past few…
19 December 2019
After a huge twelve months, we reflect on a few of our favourite collaborations, from local sustainability initiatives to community…
After a huge twelve months we reflect on a few of our favourite collaborations, from local sustainability initiatives to community…
18 December 2019
Congratulations to our incredible Project and Communications Officer, Eloise Fetterplace, who welcomed her new baby Francesca Isla Chan last week.…
12 December 2019
SEI Editor Liberty Lawson sits down with Dr Dinesh Wadiwel, who will be presenting the Iain McCalman Lecture in February…
Get to know the SEI’s two new PhD research fellows, Anna Sturman, from the Department of Political Economy, and Liberty…
09 December 2019
HDR students Anna Sturman, Blanche Verlie, Omar Elkharouf, Gemma Viney and Catherine Donnelley reflect on November’s masterclass workshop with visiting…
04 December 2019
Congratulations to the USYD staff and SEI researchers, including David Schlosberg, Beck Pearce, Sophie Chao and Elspeth Probyn, who have…
SEI Researcher Christine Winter asks whether the frameworks that grant environments like Aotearoa’s Whanganui River legal personhood should include a…
02 December 2019
Following on from the Sunlit Noir Roundtable in October, composer Heather Shannon reflects on the concept of the Australian Gothic,…
28 November 2019
“We wonder: can this kind of immersive emplaced practice move us—tourists and uninvited strangers in this place—beyond passive knowledge acquisition and…
26 November 2019
We are delighted to announce Dr Dinesh Wadiwel as the 2020 Iain McCalman Lecture keynote. The Sydney Environment Institute’s annual…
13 November 2019
Sydney Law School students Felicity Macourt, Catherine Ku, Max Vishney and Sam Alexander-Prideaux propose a series of policy recommendations for…
INCUBATE is Sydney University’s award winning startup and entrepreneurship program, supporting innovation by students, alumni and researchers. The INCUBATE accelerator…
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…
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