<div dir="ltr"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:10px 0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-position:0px 0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:700;background-position:0px 0px">Anthropocene Campus Melbourne</span></h3><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:10px 0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-position:0px 0px"><span style="font-weight:700">Dates: 3-6 September 2018</span></h3><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:10px 0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-position:0px 0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:700;background-position:0px 0px">Location: Deakin Downtown and other venues, Melbourne, Australia</span></h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-position:0px 0px">Hosted by Deakin University’s <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/adi" style="color:rgb(46,110,176);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-position:0px 0px">Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation</a> and <a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/science-and-society-network/" style="color:rgb(46,110,176);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-position:0px 0px">Deakin Science and Society Network</a> in partnership with the University of New South Wales <a href="https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/" style="color:rgb(46,110,176);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-position:0px 0px">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences</a> and <a href="http://cigiden.cl/en/" style="color:rgb(46,110,176);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-position:0px 0px">Centro de Investigación para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres</a> (CIGIDEN) and with support from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-position:0px 0px">Debates over the past decade about the existence and start date of ‘the Anthropocene’ – or, the age of the human – have provided an important prompt for academics, artists and others to critically reconsider how knowledge is produced and reproduced. What forms of critique, knowledge-making and collaboration are needed to meet the challenges we now face? Building on the success of other campuses in <a href="http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2015/curriculum_campus_technosphere/campus_the_technosphere_issue.php" style="color:rgb(46,110,176);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-position:0px 0px">Berlin, </a><a href="http://drexel.edu/coas/news-events/events-calendar/details/?eid=14467&amp;iid=44259" style="color:rgb(46,110,176);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-position:0px 0px">Philadelphia</a> and elsewhere, Melbourne will be the stage for an Anthropocene Campus in 2018 following the meeting of the <a href="https://4s2018sydney.org/" style="color:rgb(46,110,176);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-position:0px 0px">Society for Social Studies of Science</a> (4S) in Sydney on 29 August–1 September 2018. Across the four days of ACM18 participants will engage in a range of lectures, field trips, and workshops in Melbourne and the wider area exploring the theme of ‘The Elemental’.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-position:0px 0px">Applications to participate in ACM18 will open in early 2018. PhD candidates, Humanities, Arts and Social Science scholars at all levels, as well as artists, physical scientists, engineers, and other practitioners, will be encouraged to apply. For now, sign up for updates and news about ACM18 here: <a href="http://eepurl.com/deSecz" style="color:rgb(46,110,176);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-position:0px 0px">http://eepurl.com/deSecz</a> Or contact us at: <a href="mailto:anthrocampusmelb@gmail.com">anthrocampusmelb@gmail.com</a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-position:0px 0px"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-position:0px 0px"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr Timothy Neale</span></b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,serif;background-position:0px 0px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:9pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Research Fellow | Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation | </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:9pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Deakin University | Melbourne | Australia</span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><a href="mailto:t.neale@deakin.edu.au" style="color:purple"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">t.neale@deakin.edu.au</span></a></span></p></div></div>