In December 2021 Dr Rosalie Chapple represented the BMWHI in a collaboration with UNSW and the Anthropocene Transition Network to host TransCultural Conversations for Troubling Times.

The public was invited to hear North American cultural ecologist David Abram in conversation with the leading voices of Australia’s First Peoples as they explored our place in the more-than-human world. Taking place online on December 6, 8 and 10, the series of three yarning circles probed how our thinking and acting in the world is shaped by cultural understandings of language, place and time.

The video recording of each webinar is available to view below.

You can learn more about the Institute’s Indigenous Knowledge program here.

Session 1: LANGUAGE & CULTURE • 6th December 2021
Guests: Mary Graham, Jakelin Troy, Payi Linda Ford, David Abram
Moderator: Tema Milstein, UNSW Environment & Society Group

Session 2: COUNTRY & CULTURE • 8th December 2021
Guests: Bruce Shillingsworth, Bruce Pascoe, Kevin Lowe, David Abram
Moderator: Rosalie Chapple, Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute.

Session 3: DEEP TIME • 10th December 2021
Guests: Anne Poelina, Tyson Yunkaporta, David Abram
Moderator: Kenneth McLeod, Anthropocene Transition Network