Keynote Speakers

Noel Castree

The Anthropocene, Earth writing and anticipatory semantics

Noel Castree is a Professor of Geography at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales. His research and teaching interests are three-fold. First, he has a long-standing interest in understanding human-environment relationships in ways that problematise the apparently 'common-sense' concepts......Read More>>
John Chappell

Geographic Research & Responsibility in the Anthropocene

Research - Quaternary sea levels & climate; coral reefs and tropical lowlands; coastal processes; applications of radiometric dating & cosmogenic isotopes to geomorphic processes & history in arid and temperate regions....Read More>>

Ruth Fincher

Making the Case for Geography

If we accept, as I do, the desirability of Geography as a discipline in its own right and with its own name (as opposed to a field of studies merged with others and under a different name) then there is......Read More>>
Marcia Langton

University of Melbourne

Marcia Langton, AM, is a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara peoples of Queensland. She was born in Brisbane and raised in small towns, a native camp, and in Brisbane....Read More>>

Eric Pawson

Classrooms without borders: new places and spaces of learning

Eric Pawson is Professor of Geography at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has research interests in environmental history and biological economies, co-authoring Seeds of Empire (IB Tauris 2011) about biotic networks of grass seed exchange and landscape transformation,......Read More>>
Lauren Rickards

Fay Gale annual Lecture: Spaces of governance in the Anthropocene

Lauren Rickards is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, where she also co-convenes the research cluster on Sustainability in the Anthropocene....Read More>>