We have recently co-produced a multimedia essay on the decline of the critically endangered regent honeyeater. The piece is the product of a collaboration between scholars in the humanities, design, and biology: Thom van Dooren, Zoë Sadokierski, Myles Oakey, Timo Rissanen, Samuel Widin, and Ross Crates. You can read/view the full essay here. The south-eastern…

Environmental humanities scholar and anthropologist Dr. Sophie Chao (University of Sydney) has published a monograph with Duke University Press, titled Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger. The book draws on Chao’s ethnographic fieldwork in West Papua and examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in the context of mass deforestation…

In April 2024, we co-organised a roundtable discussion on the role of mourning and grief in a time of extinctions. The panel comprised Unworlding Collaboratory members Blanche Verlie and Thom van Dooren with our colleague Zoë Sadokierski. The event was a collaboration with ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas program, produced by Natasha Mitchell. An edited recording of…