Sydney Environmental Humanities Network Meet-and-greet

The Network

In 2025, we are (re)launching an environmental humanities network at the University of Sydney. This university, in particular through the Sydney Environment Institute, has played a significant role in establishing and shaping the environmental humanities both nationally and internationally. Alongside the many significant contributions of USyd scholars in this field to research, teaching, and public engagement, as a university we have also taken on a range of significant leadership roles including hosting the Australia-Pacific Observatory of the Humanities for the Environment Initiative (now the Oceania Observatory), serving as a foundational managing partner and playing key editorial roles in the first journal in the field (Environmental Humanities, Duke University Press), co-hosting the Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series, and co-hosting the Australian Environmental Humanities Hub.

The Sydney EH Network will be hosted by the Sydney Environment Institute. It will draw together researchers working in the environmental humanities who are based in a range of different faculties and provide a space for ongoing conversations, collaborations, and mentoring. Membership is open to all University of Sydney staff and students who identify their own research as contributing to the environmental humanities, broadly defined.

The event

The first event of the network will be an in-person ‘meet and greet’ session on Friday 31 October from 10:00am-1:00pm (we will aim to hold an online/hybrid events soon). At this event we hope to bring together as many EH researchers as possible from around the campus.

We will ask participants to make a brief presentation of themselves and their work (5 minutes). Presentations will be followed by a light lunch. The aim of the event is to facilitate a better understanding of the range of EH research on campus, to strike up new connections and conversations, and to lay the foundations for future collaborations.

If you are interested in signing up as a member of the network please let us know here.

In 2025-26, the activities of the network will be co-ordinated by Dr Sophie Chao, Dr Blanche Verlie, and Prof. Thom van Dooren. Please get in touch with any questions.

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