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Thom van Dooren

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New multimedia essay

  • September 19, 2024September 19, 2024
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A howling lamentation

A howling lamentation

July 24, 2019May 14, 2022

This text, co-authored with Isabelle Stengers, is a preface for the forthcoming French translation of Deborah Bird Rose’s Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction.

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Curating with care: A response to Michael Wang’s “Extinct in the Wild”

Curating with care: A response to Michael Wang’s “Extinct in the Wild”

October 12, 2018November 25, 2020

This blog post is the text of a short article written for the magazine of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, focused on Extinct in the

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HumanNature: The Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series

HumanNature: The Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series

December 18, 2017January 2, 2022

We have just finalised the lineup for HumanNature, the inaugural Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series. The series includes nine esteemed international and domestic speakers. There

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The Participatory Environmental Humanities – workshop

The Participatory Environmental Humanities – workshop

August 7, 2017November 25, 2020

Last month we held a workshop at UNSW on the Participatory Environmental Humanities. The workshop explored some of the many public faces of the Environmental

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New Book : Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

New Book : Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

May 5, 2017November 25, 2020

I’m delighted to announce that our new book is now out: Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations. This collection was co-edited by Deborah

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Multispecies Studies (edited collection)

Multispecies Studies (edited collection)

July 18, 2016November 25, 2020

This week our new special issue on “Multispecies Studies” appeared in Environmental Humanities. The issue was co-edited by six of us: Thom van Dooren, Ursula

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Two exciting French translations

Two exciting French translations

July 2, 2016November 25, 2020

I’m very happy to announce two recent French translations of my writing.

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A few photos from a recent research trip to the Mariana Islands

A few photos from a recent research trip to the Mariana Islands

June 10, 2016January 2, 2022

In May and June of 2016 I travelled to Guam and Rota in the Mariana Islands on a research trip. My focus was the critically

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Crows in the Innenhof

Crows in the Innenhof

February 6, 2016January 2, 2022

As my time in Munich is coming to an end I thought I’d share a few photos and an audio clip of the fantastic corvid

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On Ferals

On Ferals

December 5, 2015November 25, 2020

This blog post is the text of a discussant paper that I was delighted to deliver at the 2015 meeting of the American Anthropological Association

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I acknowledge the traditional custodians of Country in Australia,
including the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples of the Blue Mountains where I live,
and the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation where the University of Sydney is located.

I pay my respects to elders, past, present and emerging
and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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