The SEI Podcast Series

By Sydney Environment Institute

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The Sydney Environment Institute, based at the University of Sydney, brings together thought leaders from across the University and beyond to tackle the greatest challenges of our time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The SEI Podcast Series episodes:

05.21.2024
We can't save the climate by destroying nature
In this instalment of the SEI podcast series, it is discussed how the biodiversity crisis is inextricably linked to the climate crisis, and we can’t save the climate by destroying nature in the process. In fact, we need to repair...
04.29.2024
Oceanic narratives: interweaving past, present and future
In this instalment of the SEI Podcast Series, writer Dr James Bradley joins new scholarship that reckons with humanity’s complex relationship to the natural world. Through the lens and narratives of the ocean, it offers vital new ways of understanding...
03.12.2024
The 2024 Iain McCalman Lecture: Multispecies mourning - grief and resistance in an age of ecological undoing
At the 2024 Iain McCalman lecture, Dr Sophie Chao considered how mourning has become a necessary disposition of our times: one that enables us to create and commemorate connections by recognising the vulnerability and finitude of non-human others. Dr Chao...
11.16.2023
Sustainability@Sydney x SEI: Threads of life
How can we balance the need to halt biodiversity loss against human needs for shelter, fuel, and nutrition? Could a more multidisciplinary approach help? This discussion was hosted by Sustainability at Sydney in partnership with the Sydney Environment Institute. Learn...
11.03.2023
Episode 4: Critical mineral mining for renewable energy: how the EU is shaping regulation
In the final episode of the Unearthing Critical Minerals series, Professor Susan Park sits down with Dr Jewellord (Jojo) Nem Singh, an Assistant Professor in International Development, to understand the role the European Union (EU) is playing to reduce the...
11.03.2023
Episode 3: Comparing mining industries: Australia, Canada and South America
In this episode, Professor Susan Parks sits down with political scientist Dr Donald Kingsbury as they delve into the contrasting experiences of mining communities in Canada, Australia, and South America. Explore the influences of mining company dynasties, extractive processes, and...
11.03.2023
Episode 2: Navigating the impacts of global critical mineral supply chains
In this episode, Professor Susan Parks sits down with geographer Dr Lian Sinclair to understand how critical minerals impact the communities and environments they interact with along their global production networks. They’ll discuss the geo-economic politics, power struggles and conflicts...
11.03.2023
Episode 1: Unearthing the importance of critical minerals
In this episode, Professor Susan Park will unpack what are critical minerals and why they are key in our fight against climate change? Renewable energy is vital for the rapid global decarbonisation needed to reduce global warming. Yet renewable technologies...
11.02.2023
The power of multidisciplinary research in addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals
University of Sydney researchers discuss the recent United Nations Global Sustainable Development Report and how multidisciplinary research can help achieve a sustainable world. Learn more about the event here. Timestamps: 03:00 How the University of Sydney supports researchers in working alongside...
10.24.2023
Building power within and beyond the university
In this instalment of Grounded Conversations, political theorist Alyssa Battistoni joins Sydney Environment Institute researcher Anna Sturman to discuss the practical transformation of unjust systems in relation to climate change and critical scholarship. They will reflect on the role of...
10.05.2023
Preparing for the unpredictable: communities reducing disaster risk
In recent years, Australia has been battered by catastrophic bushfires and floods exacerbated by climate change. It is also clear from these shock events that community organised actions fulfil an essential role in disaster preparation, response and recovery. With science...
08.10.2023
Adapting our food systems
Industrial agriculture is a key contributor to the climate crisis, which threatens the resilience of our food systems. A panel of farmers and researchers explore farming practices that can help restore our ecosystems. This discussion is part of the Sydney...
08.07.2023
Stories of courage: Part one – caring for wild animals during bushfires
In the face of worsening climate disasters, the Sydney Environment Institute's Shoalhaven project seeks to understand the work being done by communities to protect animals during catastrophic fires, and how this can be better supported. As a way of reflecting...
08.07.2023
Stories of courage: Part two – caring for domesticated animals during bushfires
In the face of worsening climate disasters, the Sydney Environment Institute's Shoalhaven project seeks to understand the work being done by communities to protect animals during catastrophic fires, and how this can be better supported. As a way of reflecting...
08.07.2023
Stories of courage: Part three – caring for farmed animals during bushfires
In the face of worsening climate disasters, the Sydney Environment Institute's Shoalhaven project seeks to understand the work being done by communities to protect animals during catastrophic fires, and how this can be better supported. As a way of reflecting...
07.25.2023
Nobel Prize laureate Steven Chu on paths to a sustainable future
Professor Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize laureate and former U.S. Secretary of Energy during the Obama administration, presents new data on climate change that indicates that the Earth’s climate is more sensitive than previously thought. How we can transition from...
06.29.2023
Indigenous philosophies and practices of multispecies justice
What if politics were reoriented to take responsibility for planetary flourishing? Such an orientation has been labelled multispecies justice. While it is ‘new’ to modern Anglo-European philosophical and political traditions, multispecies justice grounds Indigenous approaches to ethical living. Hear from...
06.23.2023
Financing adaptation or adapting finance
Financial experts discuss the rapidly transitioning landscape of climate finance to explore how a variety of public and private financial actors are responding to climate change risks and opportunities, and what role finance can play in adaptation solutions. This discussion...
06.19.2023
Critical minerals: Can Australia mine its way out of the climate crisis?
A panel of experts and climate activists discuss Australia’s race to mine critical minerals for renewable technology and the consequences of an unregulated approach. The transition to renewables such as solar, wind and lithium-ion batteries is vital to decarbonise our...
06.09.2023
Capitalism, colonialism and multispecies justice
How has capitalism and colonialism rendered multispecies injustice business as usual? A panel of experts unpack this issue and consider what alternative structures could support conditions for justice. To understand the production of multispecies injustices requires widening the frame beyond...
06.02.2023
Grounded Conversations: Farhana Sultana
SEI Director Professor David Schlosberg sits down with multidisciplinary scholar Professor Farhana Sultana to discuss a broad range of pressing climate topics from political ecology to nature-society relationships. SEI’s Grounded Conversations Series highlights the potential of low-carbon academic networking and...
04.27.2023
Just adaptation and the role of social capital
How can we adapt all sectors of society to respond to climate pressures? In the first event of SEI’s Climate Adaptation series, leading political scientist Daniel Aldrich delves into the meaning of climate adaptation and the role of social capital...
04.19.2023
Reimagining our future: communities confronting the realities of climate change
Many of us understand the gravity of the climate crisis and what needs to be done, so what’s standing in our way? What will it take for our future to be reimagined to enable all life to flourish? In this...
03.27.2023
The 2023 Iain McCalman Lecture: Harnessing the transformative potential of climate governance
How can Australia successfully transition and adapt its interconnected social and technological systems as the climate crisis intensifies? Environmental law and governance expert, Dr Kate Owens, presents the 2023 Iain McCalman Lecture on how we can effectively harness climate governance...
01.27.2023
Multispecies economic justice: property in focus
Property and ownership are at the core of global crises so how can we rethink our relationship with property and redistribute it in the interests of justice and the flourishing of life? Learn more about this event here. Timestamps ...
11.28.2022
Building resilience in Australia's electricity infrastructure: planning for resilience
Hear from a multidisciplinary range of experts as they assess the stability and resilience of our electricity grid in the face of increasing climate disasters. Panel 3: Using the planning framework to build resilience: a national perspective “Will Australia’s current...
11.01.2022
The politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering
Hear from experts as they unpack how responses to the climate crisis have been organised by business, government and civil society, and what possibilities of transformation lie ahead. For more information about this event click here. Timestamps 0:50 Introduction...
10.24.2022
Reducing climate disaster risk: insights from communities, government and industry
What will it take for communities, the private sector, and government, to build preparedness and resilience in the face of increasing disasters? For more information about this event click here Timestamps 00:50 Introduction – David Schlosberg 4:15...
08.30.2022
Reimagining Environmental Responsibility After the State of the Environment Report
In response to the dire findings of the recent State of the Environment Report, this panel will explore the political, economic and ideological constraints that got us here, and the ways forward to ensure meaningful environmental protection.Timestamps00:52 Introduction –...
08.17.2022
Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice
Sociologist and SEI’s 2023 Environmental Humanities Visiting Fellow Sebastián Ureta, explores how the waste produced from mining interacts with human and non-human ecologies. In this talk, Sebastián Ureta will draw on his recently published book with Patricio Flores, 'Worlds of...
08.12.2022
A Disorderly Transition: What Technologies Do We Need?
A panel of chemists and social scientists unpack current alternative technologies on the path to decarbonisation and the complex social implications that surround them. For more information about this event click here. Timestamps 00:50 Introduction - Katherine Owens 06:18...
07.05.2022
Redefining Who Matters: Institutionalising Multi-species Justice
In a time of environmental crisis and heightened social and political tension, a panel of SEI experts call for institutionalising justice for all species through key areas of innovation such as international laws on ecocide and the expansion of personhood...
06.23.2022
Renewables and Rural Australia: Community Experiences in NSW
Hear from MPs and the authors of a major study on the social impact of large-scale renewable energy in rural communities as they launch their ground-breaking report and discuss the local and national policy implications of this research. Read the...
06.08.2022
The Battle for a Future - Farming and Extraction
In the third event of SEI’s Communities on the Frontline Series, in partnership with University of Sydney's Institute of Agriculture, SEI research lead Professor Susan Park sits down with farmer Tabitha Karp, gas expert Dr Madeline Taylor, and agriculture expert...
05.11.2022
Conversations With Coal Miners about Climate Change
In the second event of SEI’s Communities on the Frontline Series, filmmaker Kim Nguyen sits down with coal industry representatives and climate activists to view his film, Conversations with Coal Miners about Climate Change, and unpack how we can support...
05.02.2022
Why Can’t We Talk About a Just Transition From Coal in Australia?
How is the concept of a ‘just transition’ understood? In the first event of SEI’s Communities on the Frontline Series, we hear from researchers and community on why a ‘just transition’ from coal remains a challenging idea to discuss and...
12.22.2021
Building Communities of Care for Food Systems Change
SEI Postdoctoral Fellow on the FoodLab Sydney project, Kate Johnston, explores the potential of care to address our broken food systems and inform our approach to designing food systems of the future. Care is not usually associated with our food system,...
12.21.2021
Never Again or Never? Environmental Justice in Australia
The Usyd Philosophy Society (PhilSoc) in partnership with Sydney Environment Institute present a discussion on the legal and philosophical limits to environmental justice in Australia and transnationally. A panel of researchers who sit at the intersection of law and Indigenous...
12.17.2021
Book Launch: Subjects of Intergenerational Justice
Leading environmental scholars highlight the value Indigenous philosophies have for solving global environmental problems as we launch Christine Winter’s new book, 'Subjects of Intergenerational Justice: Indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships'. To whom (and what) do we owe responsibilities of...
12.06.2021
Emotion and Anxiety in Environmental History
Environmental historians, like others who study and write about the environment, have long worked with the emotional and psychological impact of environmental change, including grief, anxiety, rage, and despair. What do we do with that emotion? How do we write...
11.30.2021
How Can Finance Address Climate Change?
In public discussion, climate finance is often bandied around with banks positioning themselves as positive actors in addressing climate change. But what do they do? This panel examines how the finance sector is shifting to incorporate climate modelling into its...
11.10.2021
The Toxic Greed of Australia’s Gas-Led Recovery
NSW communities have for decades battled against an influx of large-scale resource extraction projects and fossil fuel industry adjacent developments. The 2020 formalisation of the Morrison government’s ‘gas-fired recovery plan’ has now solidified that the state and national reliance on...
10.19.2021
From Denial to Delay: Moving Beyond Australia’s Fossil Fuel Addiction
Why is the Australian Government accelerating the expansion of coal and gas exports as other nations commit to emission reduction targets, and what could our future look like instead? In this panel discussion, leading climate and energy experts explain where...
09.12.2021
Unravelling The Capitalist State
In this PhD Seminar, SEI Doctoral Fellow Anna Sturman draws upon her thesis to explore the capitalist state as a key terrain of inquiry for environmental and social justice movements. This analysis draws upon both the contemporary revival of state...
09.06.2021
Heal Country Series: Law of the Land
Lecturer in Environmental Politics, and SEI Postdoctoral Fellow-Multispecies Justice, Dr Christine Winter explores this year's NAIDOC week theme 'Heal Country, Heal the Nation' in a four-part podcast series. The series asks Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to explain what ‘Heal Country,...
07.08.2021
The Invisible Now: Writing Crisis and the Future Imaginary
Warning: The podcast contains explicit language. Just as COVID-19 has laid bare the racial, gender, and economic inequalities upon which our societies are built, the accelerating climate catastrophe has made the violence of capitalism and colonialism inescapable. Yet as social...
07.05.2021
Heal Country Series: Heal the Nation and Secure the Future
Lecturer in Indigenous, intergenerational, environmental and multispecies justice, and SEI Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Christine Winter explores this year’s NAIDOC week theme ‘Heal Country, Heal the Nation’ in a four-part podcast series. The series asks Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to explain...
06.30.2021
Writing The More-Than-Human
Today, a range of disciplines are discovering or perhaps acknowledging the many and marvelous capacities and qualities of beings other than humans, the complexity of their relationships, and the twin fallacies of human exceptionalism and individualism. Yet even as what...
04.27.2021
USU Enviro Week: Changing Our Food System From Within
Eating ties us to the social and environmental challenges inherent in our food system. It is a system that is currently unsustainable and rife with injustices: from exploitative labour practices to the pressures of climate change, loss of farmland and...
03.08.2021
The Aesthetics Of Violence
We can’t call out violence in its myriad of forms if we don’t know what it looks like, what it sounds like, or what it feels like. This panel discussion will explore the power of the creative and performing arts to...

What's The SEI Podcast Series about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The SEI Podcast Series episodes:

We can't save the climate by destroying nature

Oceanic narratives: interweaving past, present and future

The 2024 Iain McCalman Lecture: Multispecies mourning - grief and resistance in an age of ecological undoing

Sustainability@Sydney x SEI: Threads of life

Episode 4: Critical mineral mining for renewable energy: how the EU is shaping regulation

Episode 3: Comparing mining industries: Australia, Canada and South America

Episode 2: Navigating the impacts of global critical mineral supply chains

Episode 1: Unearthing the importance of critical minerals

The power of multidisciplinary research in addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals

Building power within and beyond the university

Preparing for the unpredictable: communities reducing disaster risk

Adapting our food systems

Stories of courage: Part one – caring for wild animals during bushfires

Stories of courage: Part two – caring for domesticated animals during bushfires

Stories of courage: Part three – caring for farmed animals during bushfires

Nobel Prize laureate Steven Chu on paths to a sustainable future

Indigenous philosophies and practices of multispecies justice

Financing adaptation or adapting finance

Critical minerals: Can Australia mine its way out of the climate crisis?

Capitalism, colonialism and multispecies justice

Grounded Conversations: Farhana Sultana

Just adaptation and the role of social capital

Reimagining our future: communities confronting the realities of climate change

The 2023 Iain McCalman Lecture: Harnessing the transformative potential of climate governance

Multispecies economic justice: property in focus

Building resilience in Australia's electricity infrastructure: planning for resilience

The politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering

Reducing climate disaster risk: insights from communities, government and industry

Reimagining Environmental Responsibility After the State of the Environment Report

Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice

A Disorderly Transition: What Technologies Do We Need?

Redefining Who Matters: Institutionalising Multi-species Justice

Renewables and Rural Australia: Community Experiences in NSW

The Battle for a Future - Farming and Extraction

Conversations With Coal Miners about Climate Change

Why Can’t We Talk About a Just Transition From Coal in Australia?

Building Communities of Care for Food Systems Change

Never Again or Never? Environmental Justice in Australia

Book Launch: Subjects of Intergenerational Justice

Emotion and Anxiety in Environmental History

How Can Finance Address Climate Change?

The Toxic Greed of Australia’s Gas-Led Recovery

From Denial to Delay: Moving Beyond Australia’s Fossil Fuel Addiction

Unravelling The Capitalist State

Heal Country Series: Law of the Land

The Invisible Now: Writing Crisis and the Future Imaginary

Heal Country Series: Heal the Nation and Secure the Future

Writing The More-Than-Human

USU Enviro Week: Changing Our Food System From Within

The Aesthetics Of Violence

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