[csaa-forum] FW: GRN Seminar invitation: A Conversation with Professor Iain McCalman and Professor Andrea Gaynor

[Amy Dobson]

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the information below for an online seminar for Curtin's Gender Research Network that may be of interest.

Hope everyone is safe and well!  : )



Best wishes,

Amy Shields Dobson (They/them)





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Curtin University

Gender Research Network

Seminar Series









Dear Colleagues,

The Curtin University Gender Research Network (GRN) invites you to an online event, Professor Iain McCalman and Professor Andrea Gaynor in Conversation with Dr Samantha Owen as they discuss "our need as humans to understand the grave implications and responsibilities entailed in sharing our multispecies planet" (p. 6, McCalman 2022). The conversation follows the recent release of Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and Nature<https://upswellpublishing.com/product/delia-akeley-and-the-monkey>. Published by Upswell, in Delia Akeley Iain McCalman tells the story of the casual capture a baby female monkey during an East-African hunting expedition in 1909.

We look forward to welcoming you online!



Speakers

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Professor Iain Duncan McCalman, AO FRHS FASSA FAHA, FRSN was born in Nyasaland, Africa, schooled in Zimbabwe, and earned his BA, MA and PhD in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia. He is currently Research Professor of History and Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has held many Visiting Research Fellowships in Britain and the United States, including at All Souls, Oxford and as a Mellon Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Iain is a Fellow and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Royal Society of New South Wales. He was Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 1995 until 2002. He was awarded the Inaugural Vice Chancellor's Prize for Teaching Excellence at the Australian National University in 1994, and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to history and the humanities in 2007.

Iain has written numerous articles for British, American and European history and literature journals on modern cultural history. He has also written and edited a number of books and book chapters, many of which have been translated into foreign languages. He has been keynote speaker at major humanities conferences around the world and has also been a historical consultant and narrator for a several BBC, ABC and commercial TV and film documentaries.
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Andrea Gaynor is a Professor of History and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at The University of Western Australia. An environmental historian, her research seeks to use the contextualising and narrative power of history to assist transitions to more just and sustainable societies. Her current research encompasses histories of nature in Australian urban modernity, water in Australian urbanisation and community-led land management in Australia. She is Vice-President of the European Society for Environmental History and with Prof. Tony Hughes-d'Aeth she recently established a new minor in Environmental Humanities at UWA.
Event details

Event:

GRN Seminar: A Conversation with Professor Iain McCalman and Professor Andrea Gaynor

Date:
Wednesday, 16 March 2022

Time:
1:30pm - 2:30pm (AWST)

Location:

Online via Zoom<https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZModuqvrzIpGtJv-xgwP3y5-Lu5Q1NCX48t> (Please register in advance)

Password: 971573

RSVP:

Please accept Outlook invitation or email<mailto:elizabeth.baca at curtin.edu.au> to register your attendance



Further information

If you have any special requirements to enable you to participate at this event, please advise when you RSVP. We will contact you to provide assistance.

For information about disability services at Curtin, please visit disability.curtin.edu.au<http://disability.curtin.edu.au/>.







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