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Greenhouse Gaslighting: Scott Morrison’s Emotional Manipulation From Climate Apathy to Fake Empathy

14 January 2020

The Prime Minister’s stalwart coal fetish has driven us into the arms of disaster, and his new stance, a flailing…

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A World of Ashes

09 January 2020

Fires incarnate in vivid ways the double meaning of the Anthropocene – an era of unprecedented human control and of its…

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2020: The Climate Has Changed

08 January 2020

At the dawn of this new decade, few words sound so hollow as ‘Happy New Year’. Over the past few…

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2020: The Climate Has Changed

08 January 2020

At the dawn of this new decade, few words sound so hollow as ‘Happy New Year’. Over the past few…

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Sydney Environment Institute 2019: Our Year In Review

19 December 2019

After a huge twelve months, we reflect on a few of our favourite collaborations, from local sustainability initiatives to community…

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Sydney Environment Institute 2019: Our Year In Review

19 December 2019

After a huge twelve months we reflect on a few of our favourite collaborations, from local sustainability initiatives to community…

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SEI News: Congratulations Eloise Fetterplace!

18 December 2019

Congratulations to our incredible Project and Communications Officer, Eloise Fetterplace, who welcomed her new baby Francesca Isla Chan last week.…

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Congratulations Eloise Fetterplace On Her New Baby Girl!

18 December 2019

Congratulations to our incredible Project and Communications Officer, Eloise Fetterplace, who welcomed her new baby Francesca Isla Chan last week.…

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Dinesh Wadiwel on Labour, Dominance and Animal Agriculture

12 December 2019

SEI Editor Liberty Lawson sits down with Dr Dinesh Wadiwel, who will be presenting the Iain McCalman Lecture in February…

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Introducing New PhD Research Fellows Anna Sturman and Liberty Lawson

12 December 2019

Get to know the SEI’s two new PhD research fellows, Anna Sturman, from the Department of Political Economy, and Liberty…

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Knowledge Equity, Not Extraction: Reflections on Contemporary Injustice

09 December 2019

HDR students Anna Sturman, Blanche Verlie, Omar Elkharouf, Gemma Viney and Catherine Donnelley reflect on November’s masterclass workshop with visiting…

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SEI News: Congratulations ARC Discovery Project Recipients

04 December 2019

Congratulations to the USYD staff and SEI researchers, including David Schlosberg, Beck Pearce, Sophie Chao and Elspeth Probyn, who have…

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MSJ Series: Georegional Justice from Legal Personhood to Democratic Agency

04 December 2019

SEI Researcher Christine Winter asks whether the frameworks that grant environments like Aotearoa’s Whanganui River legal personhood should include a…

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SEI Researchers Receive 2020 ARC Discovery Project Grant

04 December 2019

Congratulations to the USYD staff and SEI researchers, including David Schlosberg, Beck Pearce, Sophie Chao and Elspeth Probyn, who have…

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On The Australian Gothic

02 December 2019

Following on from the Sunlit Noir Roundtable in October, composer Heather Shannon reflects on the concept of the Australian Gothic,…

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Everyday Militarisms in O’ahu: Feel-ed Work and Toxic Sovereignties

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…

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Dinesh Wadiwel Presents The 2020 Iain McCalman Lecture

26 November 2019

We are delighted to announce Dr Dinesh Wadiwel as the 2020 Iain McCalman Lecture keynote. The Sydney Environment Institute’s annual…

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Policies for Just Transition: Reducing Public Fears, Reducing Emissions

13 November 2019

Sydney Law School students Felicity Macourt, Catherine Ku, Max Vishney and Sam Alexander-Prideaux propose a series of policy recommendations for…

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INCUBATE Business Accelerator Grants Now Open

13 November 2019

INCUBATE is Sydney University’s award winning startup and entrepreneurship program, supporting innovation by students, alumni and researchers. The INCUBATE accelerator…

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The Perils of Protecting Coastal Property

11 November 2019

Instead of mitigating further development of high-risk coastal areas, adaptation policy in Australia has gone in the opposite direction, writes…

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Introducing New Postdoctoral Research Fellow Blanche Verlie

11 November 2019

We sit down with our new postdoc Blanche Verlie, who has joined the Institute this week, to talk about her…

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David Schlosberg Elected to the Academy of Social Sciences

11 November 2019

Congratulations to SEI Director David Schlosberg on his election to the Academy of Social Sciences this week, in recognition of…

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Oceanic Sydney

07 November 2019

Steve Mentz reflects on swimmer poetics, his recent return to Australia and his hopes for a blue humanities that imitates…

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Launching the Multispecies Justice Video Series

05 November 2019

Video recordings from the 2019 MSJ Symposia are now available online, featuring local and international academics discussing the future of…