Guest lectures, conferences, symposiums and performing arts

2022 9th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture & Environment (EASLCE). Universidad de Granada, Spain, 12-15 September. Invited Speaker for Arboreal Imaginaries Panel. 13 September.

2022 Jungle Jam – Arboreal Narratives 2022 Symposium. Bankstown Art Centre, Sydney. Invited Speaker. 20 August.

2021  Requiem. A scheduled event of the Sydney Festival 2021. In association with Janet Laurence and the Sydney Environment Institute. Performance in association with the Tree Veneration Society Inc.  21 January

2020 Venerating Trees Seminar. Invited Speaker. AEGIS Art & Ecologies Research Network. RMIT University, Melbourne. November 30. 

2019 The Secret Life of Trees. Eco-Art workshops performed by the Tree Veneration Society Inc. Sydney Science Festival. Royal Botanic Gardens Living Laboratory Event, Sydney, Australia. 18 August

2019 Tree Veneration in India. Art in the Anthropocene. An International Conference in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 7- 9 June

2019 The Eco-artist Tree Veneration collective and community engagement. Third National EcoArts Australis Conference. Using the Visual and Performative Arts to encourage Pro-Environmental Behaviour. University of Wollongong. Wollongong, Australia. 26-28 May

2018  Adorned and Adored: India’s Sacred Trees. Session 1740, ‘Ancestral Roots: Memory and Arboreal Imagery across Cultures, III - Origin and Appropriation’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, England. 2-5 July

2016 EcoArts Australis 2nd National Conference – Building Sustainability with the Arts. University of Wollongong, Australia, 14-16 February.

2015 ACUADS Conference 2015: Art and Design Education in the Global 24/7. University of South Australia. 24-25 Sept. Paper delivered, The Importance of Cross Disciplinary Collaboration in Education and beyond, for the Future of our Environment, Adelaide, Australia.

2015 Into the Woods: An ‘Emotions and Environment’ Symposium. The University of Melbourne, Australia. July 22. Paper presented, Sacred Trees and Sacred Tree Groves

2014 Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions. The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture, Australia & New Zealand. June 19-21. The Australian National University. Paper Delivered, Rethinking Mine Remediation through environmental art practice, Canberra, Australia.        

2012 Imaging Nature II Conference, Tarraleah, Australia. The Arts & Environment Research Group, Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania. 20-22 June. Invited speaker. Paper presented, Re-Cognising the Land – The role of Perception in a New World.

2012 Environment & Spirituality Forum, Wakayama University, Wakayama Japan. January 18. Keynote speaker.

2012-16 Beams Arts Festival, Chippendale Creative Precinct, Chippendale, Australia. September     

2013 Balance-Unbalance 2013 International Conference. Central Queensland University. Noosa. QLD. Future nature, future culture(s) [electronic resource]: Peer-reviewed papers for Balance- Unbalance 2013 International Conference, May 31 – June 2, 2013 Noosa, Australia ; editor: Susan Davis. Noosa, Qld.: Noosa Biosphere Limited & CQ University, Noosa, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-921047-73-2 (online) Paper delivered,  The Importance of Perception to Environmentalism.

2011 “Italic 6 – Science and Technology of Biomasses: Advances and Challenges.” Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy. September 5 – 8. Paper delivered.

2011 “Alberi Sacri”. Conference. Castello Brancaccio, San Gregorio da Sassola. Italy.  3 September. Paper delivered.

2010 The 2010 International Association for Environmental Philosophy Conference, "Geo-Aesthetics in the Anthropocene”, program (pdf) . Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, USA. Paper delivered. New Perceptions – Sacred Trees.

2009 The Sacred in Trees of India and Australia. Casa delle Culture, Rome and Sala Espositiva Comunale, Spello, Italy. Paper delivered.

2009 Re Cognising the Land- ILIRI, the Creative Laboratory and the Sacred Tree. A scheduled event of the six-month Land/Art Conference, University of New Mexico, USA.  November. Paper delivered.

2007 ILIRI International Symposium, Fowlers Gap Research Station, Fowlers Gap, Australia. Paper delivered, Re-Cognising the Land. 5 – 14 September

2006 Alliance en Resonance – Australie. Alliance Francaise, Paris, France. March 20 to April 14. Paper delivered, Reunion d'information sur la residence ILIRI

2006 The Zangsporen and the Venen Arts Project. The Artificial Land – an International Exchange between Dutch and Australian Artists, Architects, Landscape Architects, Regional Planners and students, Utrecht, Holland. September 18 – 23. Symposium on 21st century issues around the land. Paper delivered on ILIRI.

 

Fertility Tree, Chennai, India

Fertility Tree, Chennai, India