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We invite scholars, experts, policymakers, and community leaders to address key environmental challenges through monthly workshops, seminars, and public events that foster knowledge sharing and community engagement.

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Upcoming events

How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change

Join us for a public conversation, on December 2, with leading thinkers in the field of feminist environmental humanities who ask: What tools can anticolonial feminism offer us for weathering this polycrisis together, differently?

The 2026 Iain McCalman Lecture

The Iain McCalman Lecture celebrates SEI co-founder and former co-director’s dedication to fostering and pioneering multidisciplinary environmental research. In 2026, Dr Rebecca McNaught will present "Communities in an era of compounding disasters: stories of hope from the Northern Rivers"

Podcasts

Past events

Rethinking growth: post-growth, de-growth, donuts and well-being

We unpacked the growth paradigm and heard from thinkers reimagining economies built around well-being, climate justice, and living within planetary boundaries.

What ‘nature positive’ means in practice

‘Nature positive’ is everywhere but what does it really mean? Hear expert insights on its use in policy, conservation, and finance, and who stands to benefit.

Reimagining democracy: how diverse knowledges are creating more-than-human justice

This event brought together leading environmental figures across cultures and geographies to explore how other animals, forests, rivers, ecosystems and so on can be included in decision making practices.

More past events

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Email: sei.info@sydney.edu.au
Donations: lauren.swift@sydney.edu.au
Events team: sei.events@sydney.edu.au