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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…

Opinion

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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SEI Launches 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…

Opinion

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…

Opinion

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…

Opinion

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…

Opinion

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…

Opinion

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…

Opinion

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…

Opinion

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…