Sustainable Research for a Sustainable Planet

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre 

To date, several academics, including academic historians, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This talk will explain how historians and other academic researchers tend to put certain things into a box labelled ‘environment’, without acknowledging that in fact, everything, including ourselves, belongs inside the box. Intellectuals have an important role to play in raising awareness among the diverse communities with whom they engage – from other academics to funders to students to the general public – that nothing we do happens outside of the living earth’s systems.