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This inaugural lecture recognises the inquisitive and critical research of Killian Quigley, whose fellowship at the Institute will leave a remarkable legacy. Through his scholarship and his colleagueship, Killian has become an internationally-recognised figure in the oceanic humanities, with his research spanning literary history to aesthetic theory and delving deep into the environmental humanities.

Under the surface of the sea, encrusting marine life-forms take shape among and upon diverse substrates, 鈥渁rtificial鈥� as well as 鈥渘atural鈥� 鈥� shipwrecks clad in sponges, oil platforms adorned with cup corals, aquaculture cages 鈥渇ouled鈥� by hydrozoans. Unlike the depth and stability evoked by soily rootedness on land, encrustation frequently connotes the superficial, the ornamental, the accidental, and the even the invasive.

This talk, which draws primarily on the discourses of Western science, aesthetics, and environmental humanities, asks how these encrusting lives challenge received impressions of place, relation, motility, and even life.

This event was presented online and at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 1 December.

Speakers

Killian Quigley聽is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sydney Environment Institute. His聽research spans literary history, aesthetic theory, the history of science, colonial and postcolonial studies, historical geography, and the environmental humanities. He is co-editor of聽, author of articles on聽plastic,聽marine pastoral, and other subjects, and was聽, recently, with Works on Water/Underwater New York. He is the Research Lead on聽Unsettling Ecological Poetics聽and聽Ocean Ontologies.

David Schlosberg聽(chair)聽is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute.聽

Head image: Demamiel62, via Shutterstock.