COCE 2025 Program

This session is fully virtual. Zoom Moderator: Emma Francis Bloomfield

Virtual Sessions

This session is fully virtual. Zoom Moderator: Patrick Jamar

Virtual Sessions

This is a fully virtual session. Zoom Moderator: Emily Montgomerie

Virtual Sessions

This session is fully virtual. Zoom Moderator: Valentina Martinez

Virtual Sessions

Join renowned activist John Seed of The Rainforest Information Centre and Deep Ecology Network for a convivial chat with Tema Milstein, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), about his life and work. Participants will have an opportunity to try a Deep Ecology activity and take part in the chat.

Chair: Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Idrees

In this double session, several filmmakers from all over the world will share portions of their film and lead question and answer sessions on their projects. *Please note the film session runs from 9-11:45

Chair: Tania Leimbach

This is a hybrid session. Zoom Moderator: Katie Hunt Environmental issues and disasters know no boundaries; their solutions—and the communication to address them—must also operate globally, across borders. As multiple scholars have argued, researching and working in and across languages and cultures is important for dealing with environmental problems but also presents unique challenges and considerations that we take up in this workshop (e.g., see Banerjee & Sowards, 2023; de Onís, 2024; Sowards, 2019). Part of these considerations concern the etic/emic approaches to community-based research, who the best representatives/participants are for the researcher AND the community, and ways to inhabit ethical interloper identities in such research. These considerations also show the inherent interconnections between language and knowledge, how multilingualism involves both the ability to listen to and speak other languages, and also how to understand diverse forms of knowledge (Glissant, 1997; Scott, 1967).This panel seeks to encourage and provide support for scholars and practitioners working in multilingual field contexts.

Hybrid Sessions

Chair: Meera Baindur

(Chair: Travis Holland)

This is a hybrid session. Zoom Moderator: Katie Hunt The aim of this co-creation research workshop is to share and map eco-centred participatory practices for collaborating with more-than-human entities. We invite academics, artists and activists engaged in using diverse methods for bringing more-than-human voices into participatory practices, policy, and decision-making to join this collaborative session. For example, people working with approaches such as Rights of Nature, Earth Ethics, Animal-Computer Interaction, Deep Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Compassionate Conservation, Multispecies Studies, Life-Centred Design, Futures Studies and more.

Hybrid Sessions

Please eat lunch first before proceeding to the venue for this session Hobart, UNESCO City of Literature as well as an Antarctic gateway, is the ideal place for a conversation about writers on/and ice. In this event, chaired by Professor Elizabeth Leane, writers of poetry, fiction, history and memoir will read from their Antarctic focused works and discuss the issues facing contemporary writers who turn their attention south. How can writers grapple with a continent that is often considered ‘beyond representation’ (Leane 2012)? What techniques are available to convey the impact of global heating on the Antarctic environment - both in terms of urgency and scale? Does the rapid expansion of Antarctic tourism - producing an equally rapid expansion in tourist blogs and the like - make the first-person narrative of Antarctic travel redundant? What are the particular challenges of different genres and forms when it comes to writing Antarctica? Do you have to ‘go there’ to be able to write credibly about Antarctica? Free to all those registered for the conference. One additional step of registration is required for this event -- see the registration desk for the link.

Professor Tema Milstein (Conference Chair) will facilitate a shared reflection with all gathered participants about COCE 2025, bringing the main conference experience to a close. Representatives of the announced international host for the next conference will preview COCE 2027.