[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar Monday 7th November at 5.30pm

Wed Nov 2 11:59:58 AEDT 2022

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:
F10A Law Building Annex, Level 3, Seminar Room 342
Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87929796938 <https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87929796938%20>

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EMILY O'GORMAN (PhD)
Associate Professor, Macquarie University

WETLANDS AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: MORE-THAN HUMAN HISTORIES

Abstract: Ecologists estimate that the most of the world’s wetlands have been lost since 1700, with these losses accelerating from 1900. Wetlands have been drained to prevent disease, encourage urban growth, and diverted to support intensive agriculture. This loss of wetlands has had a range of consequences, from reduced biodiversity to the erosion of cultural sites. Only in the 1960s and 1970s did “wetlands” become an international category and object of conservation amidst growing efforts in global environmental protection. This paper considers these contested wetland histories in more-than-human terms. It first discusses the approach of more-than-human histories in relation to wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. It then examines Australia’s involvement in international wetlands conservation. Here, changing understandings of transcontinental bird migrations, Pacific diplomacy, and ideas of habitats and habitat loss, converged to shape government scientists’ involvement in the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance 1971. This paper examines wetlands as sites defined by and laden with specific sets of values, which were shaped by particular expertise and relationships with certain animals and plants, and were deeply connected with Australasian and Pacific circulations.

Bio: Emily O’Gorman is an Associate Professor at Macquarie University. Her research is situated within environmental history, and the interdisciplinary environmental humanities, and is primarily concerned with contested knowledges within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes. This has been supported by nationally competitive research grants as well as a Carson Writing Fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Munich. She is the author of Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin (2012) and Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (University of Washington Press, 2021). She co-leads the Environmental Humanities research group at Macquarie University, was a founding Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (2012-2014) and a founding co-editor of the Living Lexicon in that journal (2014-2020). She is currently the Convenor of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network.

WHEN:  MONDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 2022
START: 5.30PM
Location:
F10A Law Building Annex, Level 3, Seminar Room 342

Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87929796938 <https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87929796938%20>

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