Description
Join Natasha Mitchell and guests for a poetic discussion on the ways you can create space to grieve for species that are going, going, gone. Powerful interests collude to tell us that expressing emotion is hysterical, and that humans are separate from Nature, but proper mourning paves the way for what to do next — and places us right back where we belong.
Speakers
Professor Thom van Dooren Environmental philosopher
Professor of Environmental Humanities
Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney
Author, Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds
A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions
Dr Blanche Verlie
Climate change educator, sociologist
Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies
Sydney Horizon Fellow, University of Sydney.
Author, Learning to Live With Climate Change: From Anxiety to Transformation
Associate Professor Zoe Sadokierski
Book designer, writer, creative producer
Co-director, Visualisation Institute, University of Technology Sydney.
Author, Father, Son and Other Animals
You wouldn't be human if you hadn't from time to time wondered what the meaning of all of this is. Who am I? Is there a purpose? Why am I here? And how can I live a good life? Well of course you're not alone – some of history's biggest thinkers have been coming up with answers to these questions...
Published 06/27/24
Leading Australian climate scientist Dr Joelle Gergis takes a timely look at Australia's perilous future in a warming world.
"Most Australians aren't aware how bad things are and how much worse they will get." — Joelle Gergis
This event was recorded at Gleebooks in Sydney on Tuesday June 4,...
Published 06/25/24