Thom van Dooren

This is the slightly revised text of a talk that I have presented at a few conferences over the last couple of years. It draws substantially on stories told in my book A World in a Shell, but does so in an effort to draw out and clarify the particular approach to multispecies storytelling that I have taken in much of my larger body of research.

In April 2024, I co-organised a roundtable discussion of on the role of mourning and grief in a time of extinctions with Zoe Sadokierski and

Living on the Edge is a multi-year collaborative project being developed by the National Museum of Australia and the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. The project brings together cultural researchers, writers, curators, traditional custodians and artists, as well as policy-makers, scientists and community conservationists, to share knowledge and explore ideas about how best to care for threatened places.