Flight Ways on the New Books Network seminar
A great interview on Flight Ways has just been posted on the New Books Network seminar. Thanks so much to Carla Nappi for taking the time to read the book and chat with me.
Encountering Crows: Living with wildlife in a changing world
I am currently beginning work on a new 3-4 year research project focused on crows around the world. Below are a few excerpts from a recent grant application, stitched together to give a sense of ...
Sheep on Svartsö
Here’s a little film of some beautiful sheep on the island of Svartsö in the Stockholm archipelago in the early morning. They’re using the supporting wires of a power pole to scratch their heads and ...
Care: Some musings on a theme
This short paper was written for a collaborative project that is working to develop a lexicon for the environmental humanities (yet to be published). It was presented at the Affective Habitus conference in Canberra in ...
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
My new book, Flight Ways, is now out. You can read more about the book here. It is available for sale from all of the big online book sellers and even in the odd bookshop.
Undoing Forever – CBC Ideas
I participated in this fascinating radio documentary on de-extinction and the resurrection of extinct species. The program includes a range of scientists and a little bit of historical and philosophical input. It is an engaging ...
Vulture lovers of the world unite!
Please sign this petition to help protect Europe’s vultures.
Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene
I’m very excited to announce a symposium to be held in Stockholm later this year: “Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities.” The event is co-organised by Michelle Bastian (University of ...
Back from the brink – an interview on ABC Radio National
On Monday morning I appeared on a short program on the ABC Radio National program ‘Life Matters‘. We talked about extinction, conservation and ethics. You can listen to the full audio here. Image: A Distant ...
Some forthcoming papers: conservation and extinction
For the last couple of years my research on ethics, extinction and conservation has focused on Hawai’i, and the Hawaiian crow (or alala) in particular. I seem to have accumulated a fair few articles and ...