The Cold War and the Anthropocene: 1945-25,945 A.D. John McNeill Georgetown University Public Lecture Tuesday 26 October 2010 5-6.30 pm Venue: Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1, ANU We live in an era of unprecedented human impact on earth systems and the biosphere, sometimes called the Anthropocene. This lecture explores the ways in which international political [...]

Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, Mandy Martin CSIRO PUBLISHING, 352 pages, Hardback, Colour illustrations, ISBN:9780643097490, $59.95. Desert Channels is a book that combines art, science and history to explore the ‘impulse to conserve’ in the distinctive Desert Channels country of south-western Queensland. The region is the source of Australia’s major inland-flowing desert rivers. Some of Australia’s [...]

The National Museum of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science through its National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science invite submissions for the 2011 National Museum of Australia Student Prize for the History of Australian Science or Australian Environmental History The Prize will be a certificate and $2,500 Please note: the revised closing [...]

The next issue of the Journal of the History of Biology is a special issue on Environmental History. Libby Robin and Jane Carruthers are the guest editors, and there is a strong Australian and South African focus. Authors are Brett M. Bennett, Etienne Benson, Karen Brown, Laura Cameron & David Matless, M. Timm Hoffman & [...]

The winner of the 2010 NMA Student Prize in Australian Environmental History and the History of Australian Science is Luke Keogh of the University of Queensland for an essay entitled ‘Duboisia Pituri – A Natural History’. The prize was presented on Thursday 6 May by Dr John Passioura FAA, on behalf of the Australian Academy [...]

Pictures of Time Beneath: Science, Heritage and the Uses of the Deep Past by Kirsty Douglas Pictures of Time Beneath examines three celebrated heritage landscapes: Adelaide’s Hallett Cove, Lake Callabonna in the far north of South Australia, and the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region of New South Wales. It offers philosophical insights into significant [...]

Seminar by Brett Bennett Tuesday 29th June, 5-6pm Lecture Theatre, Forestry Building (48) Linnaeus Way (comes off Daley Road) Charles Lane Poole (1885-1970) and Edward Harold Swain (1883-1970) are perhaps the two most influential foresters in Australia’s history. Born in Britain and trained in France, Lane Poole served as the conservator of forests in Western [...]

Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra, 25-29 October, 2010 Applications for the 2010 workshop have closed. The next workshop will be held in 2012 Are you writing a PhD in some aspect of environmental history? For five days in October this year, the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University will [...]