AELA Events

2024 Events

ETHICAL FUTURES FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET

Start date: May 1, 2025
End date: May 3, 2025
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Griffith EcoCentre, Brisbane

SAVE THE DATES!

Thursday 1st May to Saturday 3rd May 2025
Griffith Ecocentre (Griffith University),
Building N68, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan (Brisbane) Qld 4111

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2024 Past Events

EXPLORING BIOREGIONALISM: First Peoples’ governance systems and the Relationist Ethos

Date: December 5, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our December webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Dr Mary Graham, to discuss how First Peoples' governance systems and the Relationist Ethos have inspired - and can guide - bioregionalism and biocultural governance.

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EXPLORING BIOREGIONALISM: Western science, bioregions and boundaries – with Professor Ian Lowe AO

Date: October 24, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online via Zoom

Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our October webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO, to discuss what Western science can tell us about bioregions, boundaries and 'bioregionalism'.

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EXPLORING BIOREGIONALISM: Re-inventing bioregionalism and bioregioning in the 21st Century – with Sam Wearne

Date: September 19, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online via Zoom

Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our September webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Dr Sam Wearne, UTS, to explore how 'bioregionalism' is being interpreted, re-invented and reinvigorated in the 21st Century, in theory and practice around the world.

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EXPLORING BIOREGIONALISM: Can bioregionalism solve our housing crisis?

Date: August 29, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online via Zoom

Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our August webinar, we ask: can bioregionalism solve Australia's housing crisis?

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Exploring Bioregionalism: Earthy governance stories from India

Date: July 25, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online via Zoom

 

Join us for AELA's "Exploring Bioregionalism" webinar series! In our July webinar, AELA Convenor and Greenprints creator, Dr Michelle Maloney, will be joined by Shrishtee Bajpai, from Kalpavriksh and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, to explore bioregionalism from the perspective of different communities and projects in India.

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Why localising our economies is good for people and planet

Date: June 21, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

What is 'localisation' and why does it offer so many benefits to people and the environment? Join us this World Localisation Day to discuss how the localisation of our economies, societies and environmental protection strategies, can bring multifaceted benefits to our people and planet.

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Course: Earth-Centred Futures 2024

Start date: May 7, 2024
End date: June 25, 2024
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Course: Introduction to Earth Laws 2024

Start date: March 5, 2024
End date: March 26, 2024
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Introduction to Deep Ecology

Date: February 24, 2024
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

2023 Events

2023 NENA Conference

Start date: November 17, 2023
End date: November 19, 2023
All-day event
Location: Ann Harding Centre, Canberra, ACT

For more information, visit the NENA website.

Integral Ecology – Faith and Environment

Date: September 29, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Making ecocide a crime – international update

Date: September 28, 2023
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

2023 Rights of Nature Symposium

Date: September 28, 2023
Time: 9:00 am - 8:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

The Human Right to a Healthy Environment: Recognising the Right in Australia

Date: September 26, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Nature, Our Medicine: How the Natural World Sustains Us

Date: September 25, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Sublime Toxics with Christopher Wright

Date: September 22, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Women’s Environmental Leadership in Australia

Date: September 19, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Climate change update with Brendan Mackey

Date: September 18, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

The future of ecological economics

Date: September 14, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: technological, socioeconomic and political change

Date: September 14, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Designing Regenerative Cultures – with Daniel Christian Wahl in conversation with Michelle Maloney

Date: September 13, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Degrowth in Australia – What’s Possible?

Date: September 12, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Indigenous philosophy and ‘Relationist Economics’ with Mary Graham

Date: September 12, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

The Work that Reconnects

Date: September 8, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Decolonising our thinking, feelings, and actions

Date: September 7, 2023
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Deep listening to nature – with Andrew Skeoch

Date: September 6, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Join us as Andrew Skeoch shares his observations from decades of making sound recordings of nature. Andrew will discuss his recent book - "Deep Listening to Nature" - in which he explores our relationship with nature and what we can learn from listening to the wondrous communications within the natural world.

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The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: how to make it operational and effective

Date: September 5, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Join us for a special presentation by the Honourable Justice Brian J Preston, Chief Judge of the NSW Land and Environment Court. Judge Preston will share insights into how legal concepts can be turned into reality, and how we can operationalise a right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

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Earth Laws Month 2023

Start date: September 1, 2023
End date: September 30, 2023
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Welcome to Earth Laws Month! AELA will again be hosting a huge month of events throughout September 2023 - webinars, public lectures, workshops, virtual art exhibitions and more - to explore and celebrate our relationship with the living world.

See all the events here!

AELA’s Creative Conversations: with Jude Roberts and Helen Hardess

Date: August 8, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Trends in Climate Litigation in Australia – with Justice Brian Preston

Date: June 27, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Join us for an important discussion with Justice Preston, Chief Judge of the NSW Land and Environment Court, about current trends in climate litigation in Australia.

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Carbon and Nature Offsets: In the Market for Ecocide?

Date: May 18, 2023
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Caring for our oceans – exploring cultural connections and kinship with whales

Date: May 10, 2023
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Ocean Rights and Kinship Alliance (ORKA)

Please join ORKA (the Ocean Rights and Kinship Alliance) for our 2023 webinar series, which explores our connections and kinship with the ocean and our interconnected community of marine life.

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Repairing our relationship with rivers: the role of law, with Dr Erin O’Donnell – Earth Laws Webinar Series

Date: May 4, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Since 2017, rivers around the world have experienced a profound transformation in law: they have become legal persons and/or living entities. This alchemical transfiguration from legal object to legal subject renders the river uniquely visible, and legible, to the law in ways it has not been before, and often brings with it new legal rights and powers.

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Protecting Future Generations – with Sophie Howe, former Welsh Future Generations Commissioner

Date: April 21, 2023
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series

Join us for a fascinating webinar and inspiring conversation with Sophie Howe, outgoing Future Generations Commissioner in Wales.

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The Well-being of Future Generations Act was passed by the Government of Wales in 2015 and gave the government the mandate and legal obligation to improve social, cultural, environmental and economic well-being in Wales.

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AELA’s Creative Conversations: with Merete Megarrity and Renata Buziak

Date: April 12, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

AELA's Earth Arts program connects with artists and creatives around Australia, and in 2023/2024 we're inviting amazing artists to share stories about their work and what inspires them.

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Should the Moon have legal rights?

Date: April 12, 2023
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Corporations and governments around the world are making plans to return to the Moon, and not just to visit our celestial neighbour, but to mine its minerals, extract its water and create permanent settlements for further space exploration.

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Caring for our Oceans – exploring cultural connections and kinship with whales

Date: March 9, 2023
Time: 11:00 am (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Please join ORKA (the Ocean Rights and Kinship Alliance) for our 2023 webinar series, which explores our connections and kinship with the ocean and our interconnected community of marine life.

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AELA Education: Introduction to Earth Laws 2023

Start date: February 7, 2023
End date: February 28, 2023
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

4 week ONLINE course, from 7th to 28th February, 2023

Live classes: 4pm - 6pm Brisbane Time [AEST]
5pm - 7pm [AEDT] || 4:30pm - 6:30pm [ACDT] || 2pm - 4pm [AWST]

For more information click here