Talking with Professor Kate Rigby about her academic journey in Ecological Humanities

Looking back over an almost 40 years-long academic career, moving from Melbourne (Melbourne and Monash Universities) to the UK in 2016 (Bath University) and since 2022 in Germany, as Chair of the University of Cologne Research Hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities, Kate Rigby talks with Jacques about the evolution of her endeavours to integrate our ways and means of being and thinking as 'humans' into the relational reality of our ecology, of Mother Earth. The conversation implicitly also opens up questions about Australia's Tertiary Education and whether it remains fit and prepared to play its role in the necessary thinking and practice our times demand. Below are links to some of her publications. 2023: Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction, New York: Orbis Books. ('Day Three' available open access here)2020: Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization, London: Bloomsbury Academic (open access)2015: Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times, Charlottesville: U of Virginia P.(Chapter Two available open access here)2004: Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism, Charlottesville: U of Virginia P.Other links:Manifesto of Australian National Working Group for the Ecological Humanities (c. 2001)Environmental Humanities JournalUniversity of Cologne Research Hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH).Sophia's Spring Eco-feminist Church Community, CERES, Brunswick (if interested in attending service on December 22, at which Kate will be speaking, please contact the coordinator, Christina at [email protected])