Emerging Environment and Media Scholars
In association with the Environment and Media Research Program, we are a loosely affiliated group of HDR and ECR scholars whose research and teaching deal, in different ways, with intersecting concerns for media and environmental issues.
Around the above interests, this group is a platform for:
- Networking across research interests and disciplinary boundaries
- Organising events to cultivate and foster a rich research community
- Finding opportunities to advance environmental concerns in the teaching and research of media
- Exploring the environmental ramifications of media research
In 2022-2023 we are curating a series of events addressing the above themes and aims.
We invite HDR or ECR scholars, whether or not your research explicitly addresses environmental concerns, to be a part of these conversations.
If you are interested in being updated on our activities or want to get involved please email founding convenors Simon Troon and Melanie Ashe: simon.troon @ monash.edu or melanie.ashe1 @ monash.edu.
Envisioning the Environment Reading Group
From 2020 - 2022 during extended lockdowns in Melbourne and Australia we organised a reading group for scholars in Melbourne who were interested in thinking about interconnections between environmental issues and questions of visuality.
The group explored a wide range of methods and perspectives on the environment and the visual that emerged from critical media theory, philosophy, screen studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, and more.
We looked at:
- Elizabeth Povinelli’s ‘Geontologies’ (2016)
- Karrabing Film Collective
- Elizabeth Grosz’s ‘The Incorporeal’ (2017)
- Kathryn Yusoff’s ‘A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None‘ (2018)