From 28 May to 1 June the Centre for Environmental History welcomed fifteen doctoral students from around the world to its ninth Biennial Environmental History PhD workshop. International guest Professor Christof Mauch joined workshop teachers Professor Tom Griffiths, Professor Heather Goodall, and Professor Libby Robin. 

Students are taught in the tradition established on the ANU campus by the distinguished historian, Professor Greg Dening (1931-2008), with whom we were fortunate to teach in his ‘Challenges to Perform’ workshops from 1998 to 2006. Students are encouraged to reflect on their responsibility to communicate what is important to them, think deeply about the craft of history writing, as well as explore different modes of communication, or ‘performance’, for different audiences.

 

In conversation with Christof Mauch
Libby Robin in conversation with Christof Mauch
Heather Goodall on cultures of water
Marg Hickey on The Pastoral and Rural Place in Contemporary Australian Literature
Amy Way on the History of Antiquity in Australia
Exploring Marion Marrison’s photography
Exploring Marion Marrison’s photography
Marion Marrison on Exploring a Local Landscape through Photography
Marion’s photography
Marion’s photography
Tianna Killoran on The Deep North and the Near North
Max Findley Rationalizing Disaster
Christof and Tom
Susanne, Harriet and Amy pitching an Anthropocene exhibition
Tianna, Briohny and Marg pitch their Anthropocene exhibition
Jesse, Leith and Jasper on their Anthropocene object
Melissa, Sarah, Max, and Johanna
Tom
Samantha Lang on Brown Lake
Tom reads at the soiree
Bernadette’s cooking
Bernadette’s cooking
Literary soiree
Literary soiree
Saul Cunningham enjoying the soiree, Marg prepares to give a reading
Literary soiree
Book table
Environmental History group therapy
Returning to Environmental History
Class of 2018
Tom planning a field trip

 

The workshop is sponsored by the Centre for Environmental History (School of History, RSSS, ANU), the Fenner School of Environment and Society (ANU), the National Museum of Australia, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (LMU, Munich).