Professor Thom van Dooren

Thom van Dooren is Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Humanities and the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, Australia. Thom is also a Humboldt Research Award funded Fellow at the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) research hub at the University of Cologne and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

He is the author of three widely cited, translated, and award-winning books,  Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia University Press, 2014), The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (Columbia University Press, 2019), and A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions (MIT Press, 2022).

Professor David Schlosberg (Opening remarks)

David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics, Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Co-Theme Lead of the Environmental Justices and Climate Disaster and Adaptation research themes. His work focuses on environmental, ecological, and climate justice; environment and everyday life; and climate adaptation planning and policy. David has worked extensively with local and state governments on just adaptation and resilience planning, the social impacts of climate change, and community-based food systems and policy.

Associate Professor Zoë Sadokierski

Zoë Sadokierski is Associate Professor in Visual Communication and a co-director of the Visualisation Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research explores creative ways to communicate complex issues such as species extinctions, climate futures and nuclear legacies. She has won multiple awards for her book design work, and her artist’s books and works on paper have been exhibited and collected in galleries and libraries around the world. She is author of Father, Son and Other Animals (Cordite 2024).

Professor Dieter Hochuli

Dieter Hochuli leads the Integrative Ecology group at The University of Sydney. The group uses multiscale approaches to examine the mechanisms driving the ecology of a range of species, especially in novel ecosystems. Dieter has been at the University of Sydney since 1995, shortly after completing his PhD.

Dr Jenny Newell

Jenny Newell is Curator, Climate Change at the Australian Museum’s Climate Solutions Centre. She works on the cultural dimensions of climate change. Her collaborative, cross-disciplinary research, publication and outreach projects seek to convene powerful storytelling and build engagement in environmental stewardship. Jenny has worked with communities and collections at the British Museum, National Museum of Australia, the American Museum of Natural History and the Australian Museum to amplify voices and support regenerative practices.

Dr Peter Minter

Peter Minter is a leading Australian poet, editor and scholar, Dr Minter's expertise is concentrated in Indigenous literatures and their interpolations of Australian and transnational modernisms and countermodernisms. His work proposes critical and theoretical affiliations between Indigenous literatures and western cultural formations such as marxism, surrealism, psychoanalysis, economics , ecology, and law. He is particularly interested in comparative and interdisciplinary studies of interactions between Indigenous poetics and cultures of avant-garde experimentalism, the visual arts, cinema, music, resistance politics and ecopoetics. He is uniquely experienced in the history and formation of Australian editing, publishing, critical and archival communities, and is a specialist educator in graduate and postgraduate poetry, poetics and creative writing programs.