Emily O’Gorman

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Environmental History | More-than-human Geography | Environmental Humanities | A/Prof, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University, Australia | Australian Research Council Future Fellow


Latest book: Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (University of Washington Press, 2021)
 

Working on a history of international wetlands conservation post-1945


#EnvHist #EnvHum #Histodons
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Websitehttps://emilyogorman.net/
Latest book - Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basinhttps://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295749150/wetlands-in-a-dry-land/

CHESS 2023: Call for Participants – NiCHE #histodons #envhist

The annual Canadian environmental history summer school is back after 3 years. The highlight is a field trip exploring Canada’s early oil industry and two great keynotes. And I’m running a workshop called “Why We Count” with Colin Coates, Ruth Sandwell and Andrew Watson.

https://niche-canada.org/2023/01/13/chess-2023-call-for-participants/

CHESS 2023: Call for Participants

We're back! CHESS 2023 will take place at Western University in London, Ontario from 26-28 May 2023.

NiCHE

If you've ever wondered what megafauna we used to have in Kansas, I've got a video for you! Coming tonight, Kansas’ Lost Wildlife will give you a brief introduction our historic wildlife that I'll expand on throughout the year.

#kansas #histodons #envhist #blackbear #elk #grizzlybear

📷's from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service

Just out in early view: "Wayilwan Women Caring for Country: Dynamic Knowledges, Decolonising Historical Methodologies, and Colonial Explorer Journals" in the Journal of Australian Studies.

A privilege to co-author with Wayilwan woman Danielle Carney Flakelar.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14443058.2022.2153378

#envhist #envhum

Feel free to DM or email me for a copy.

Wayilwan Women Caring for Country: Dynamic Knowledges, Decolonising Historical Methodologies, and Colonial Explorer Journals

This article presents research from an ongoing collaborative project between two women—an Aboriginal woman and senior Wayilwan cultural knowledge holder, and an academic of European descent—that ai...

Taylor & Francis
Looking forward to this! Call for Panels for the Fourth World Congress of Environmental History 2024 (Oulu, Finland) http://wceh2024.com. Deadline for session abstracts 3 April 2023 #envhist #envhum
WCEH2024 Conference

World Congress of Environmental History, August 2024 in Oulu, Finland

The flood necklace piece represents the Loire river floods data btw 1800 and 2003, by water heights. The white spheres are the 2 "big ones" of 1856 & 1866 that lead to a national new policy for river management in France. #envhist. Tangible & Sensible historical knowledge about landscapes can be conveyed through #datartefacts & #datasculpture . Slow making of such #dataviz also impacts the relationship btw the data and the maker, allowing for better appropriation, as well as tactile memory.

look at that gorgeous poster!
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RT @CarsonCenter
Do you want to write for our workshop "Black and Green? Towards an Environmental History of the Oil Industry"? The aim is to unpack the concept of greenwashing through a study of the #environmentalhistory of oil.
More information: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_events/2022-news/cfa_black-and-green-workshop/index.html

#envhist #envhum #cfp
https://twitter.com/CarsonCenter/status/1603066184219377664

Call For Papers: Black and Green? Towards an Environmental History of the Oil Industry - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

Open Call for Authors “Future Directions in Environmental History” — ICEHO

Afterword for the Routledge Handbook of Environmental History Editors: Emily O’Gorman, Mark Carey, William San Martín, and Sandra Swart     The editors of the Routledge Handbook of Environmental History (under contract and expected for publication in 2023) invite graduate s

ICEHO

#Histodons, please help us spread this opportunity for early-career environmental historians (PhD candidates included). The editors of the upcoming 𝘙𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 are looking for emergent scholars to write the book's afterword!

https://www.iceho.org/news/2022/12/12/open-call-for-authors-future-directions-in-environmental-history

#EnvHist @histodons #EnvHum

Open Call for Authors “Future Directions in Environmental History” — ICEHO

Afterword for the Routledge Handbook of Environmental History Editors: Emily O’Gorman, Mark Carey, William San Martín, and Sandra Swart     The editors of the Routledge Handbook of Environmental History (under contract and expected for publication in 2023) invite graduate s

ICEHO

Were you affected by flooding in NSW/Qld between Jan-July this year? An online survey is now open to share your story so that we can improve community safety in future floods.
Learn more + participate here:

https://www.naturalhazards.com.au/news-and-events/news-and-views/have-your-flood-story-heard-online-survey

Have your flood story heard in online survey | Natural Hazards Research Australia

Have your flood story heard in online survey

Honoured to have recently been awarded the Faculty of Arts 2022 Research Excellence Prize at Macquarie University!

Photo courtesy of @fionamiller