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Strategies for an Environmental Humanities: Where To Now?<BR>
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1 July 2016<BR>
Southern Cross University, Gold Coast campus
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The symposium will address strategies for an environmental humanities responding to the environmental crisis as an urgent demand. What kind of environmental humanities can best address the pressing issues of climate change and the challenge to think and act in the right way? Can the environmental humanities afford to stay within the limits of the traditional humanities, posing questions of the human-nature relation through its textual, critical, creative, interpretive and aesthetic approaches, or does it reach beyond itself to forge a rapprochement with the sciences to address the challenges and threats of anthropogenic climate change? What are the consequences for taking these options? What is gained and what is lost? <BR>
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In addressing these questions, this interdisciplinary symposium will draw together researchers from across the humanities as well as researchers working in scientific disciplines. The symposium also includes the launch of <I>The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World</I>, edited by Patrícia Vieira, John Ryan and Monica Gagliano, published by Rowman and Littlefield. Discussion at the symposium will feed the development of a special issue of the <I>Transformations</I> journal addressing strategies for the environmental humanities.<BR>
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This symposium will take place at the Southern Cross University Gold Coast campus, Building A, A2.20, Southern Cross Drive, Bilinga QLD (turn left off the Gold Coast Airport entrance).<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">9.30am – 10.00am Introductory address: A/Prof Grayson Cooke<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">10.00am – 10.30am Presentation: Adjunct A/Prof Warwick Mules<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">10.30am – 11.00am Presentation: Adjunct A/Prof Rod Giblett<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">11.00am –11.30am MORNING TEA<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">11.30am –12.00pm Presentation: Dr John Ryan<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">12.00pm – 12.30pm Presentation: A/Prof Monica Gagliano<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">12.30pm –12.45pm Book launch: <I>The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">12.45pm – 1.30pm LUNCH<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Symbol">· </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">1.30pm – 3.00pm Round table discussion<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B>RSVP: <a href="editor@transformationsjournal.org">editor@transformationsjournal.org</a><BR>
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