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Dear List members,</div>
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we are delighted to announce the Call for Participation in the Podcast Series (2021) and Symposium (24-25 February 2022) "<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">@RISK: Knowledge Practices, Environmental Crisis & Environmental Action".</span></div>
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span>@RISK is a project funded by
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/x9aiCVARKgCxzEW8MhGfL92?domain=theseedbox.se">The Seed Box</a> – A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory and the ARC
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/NUJMCWLVXkU5NQM80FxQbGi?domain=coesb.com.au">Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology</a>, and is supported by the Institute for Culture and Society, WSU.<br>
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@RISK provides a platform for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and activists who want to engage with this topic outside of their disciplinary or institutional constraints, are already doing so, and/or, have always done so. Why is this? And at what
risk to them, and the expertise of those disciplines and their professional roles, do they do so?</div>
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We invite anyone who may be interested to participate as a symposium presenter, panelist, poster creator and/or podcast interviewee, and contribute your risk concerns in relation to one or more of the following interrelated themes:</div>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify"><b>Knowledge practices</b> - what risks do we take with
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/cAfICXLW2mUXkg8ZmfDilKt?domain=sciencedirect.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">what we know
and how we know it</span></a></span>? Examples include working beyond one’s disciplinary expertise,
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RdoQCYW8NocLjvnX5uVV9ZA?domain=sciencedirect.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">generating un/stable
facts</span></a></span>, harnessing/rejecting the creative arts, and making reflexivity
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/F69bCZY1Nqi5XwkYzFxdFkH?domain=sciencedirect.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">more accountable</span></a></span>. <span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify"><b>Environmental crisis</b> - the existential risks posed not only
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AJTwC1WLPxcML0PX8T1btT9?domain=mitpress.mit.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">to humans</span></a></span>, but to the
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rvTHC2xMQzip04BQ7fXKf0b?domain=cambridge.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">more-than-human
world</span></a></span> as a result of human action. How can we identify them and learn from them? Let alone understand and respond to them
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/EsS9C3QNPBipWPyvZfEwgZq?domain=tandfonline.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">appropriately</span></a></span>? <span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify"><b>Environmental action</b> - what risks arise from seeking to take meaningful action? Including in
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/a8etC4QOPEiBRnDxrF3-BH2?domain=sciencedirect.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">our institutions</span></a></span>,
amongst colleagues, and with our social and biophysical environments. For example, asserting Indigenous peoples’ authority in
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/IX0wC5QPXJiZwzX1AU9Labu?domain=adastracomix.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">contexts
framed otherwise</span></a></span>.</li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify">
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Technoscientific interventions</span></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"> - what promises, potentials and pitfalls arise from seeking action through technoscience? In such arenas as
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nOdJC6XQ4LfrZgpJXIvHOl5?domain=mdpi.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="8"><span style="color:#1155CC">synthetic biology</span></a><span style="color:black">,
</span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6dgMC71R2NTAn08YLcPNxpJ?domain=conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="9"><span style="color:#1155CC">assisted evolution</span></a><span style="color:black">, &
</span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nHTuC81V0PT6BA2g9iyk0VK?domain=journals.sagepub.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="10"><span style="color:#1155CC">climate engineering</span></a><span style="color:black">.
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Please find the detailed Call for Participation attached to this message.</div>
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The Symposium will be held at the WSU Parramatta CBD campus, or, pending any COVID-19 restrictions, online. Virtual presentations can be pre-recorded or live.</div>
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Co-conveners: Dr Josh Wodak & Dr Jessica Weir, Institute for Culture & Society, WSU<br>
Keynote Speakers: A/Prof Katerina Teaiwa (ANU) and Prof Juan Salazar (WSU)</div>
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For symposium inquiries contact Daniele Fulvi: <a href="mailto:D.Fulvi@westernsydney.edu.au">
D.Fulvi@westernsydney.edu.au</a> <br>
For podcast inquiries contact Gretchen Miller: <a href="mailto:gretchenmillermedia@gmail.com">
gretchenmillermedia@gmail.com</a></div>
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Thanks,</div>
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Daniele Fulvi</div>
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@RISK Symposium co-ordinator and Research Officer, Institute for Culture and Society – Western Sydney University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology<br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt"><i><em>I acknowledge that the land on which I live and work is stolen land. That the Darug People of the Darug Nation have never ceded their sovereignty on these lands, and that treaties are yet to be negotiated.</em></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><i><em>I additionally acknowledge the Darug People's living culture, knowledge and struggle in this region.</em></i></span><i><em><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt"><i><em>I pledge my ongoing solidarity with the traditional owners, and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples, in their struggle for recognition of sovereignty, historical truths and justice.</em></i></span><i><em><br>
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