About

Welcome to the New Ecological Discourses – Discussion Group (NED)

We are an independent group of scholars who meet monthly in Melbourne to sample and reflect critically on emerging ecological discourses and publications for the purpose of maintaining our literacy within this burgeoning trans-disciplinary field.

Readings

Our readings archive starting from 2015 can be found here.

Meetings

We work to a semester cycle of four monthly discussions, followed by a day-long reflection on implications of the readings for our current and emerging projects.

Monthly meetings are held in the evening in a central venue in the Melbourne CBD, currently at the Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre, 251 Faraday Street in Carlton.

Images

As the pre-Raphaelites looked back to the medieval era for aesthetic inspiration, so too do we, seeking to ground our explorations of post-materialist discourses in that premodern, pre-mechanistic phase of Western civilisation.