Danielle Celermajer is a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of
Sydney, Acting Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and lead of the Multispecies
Justice project. Her publications include Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apology
(Cambridge University Press 2009) and The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological
Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2018) The Cultural History of Law in the Modern
Age (Bloomsbury 2019) and The Subject of Human Rights (Stanford 2020).
Through the experience of living through the black summer bushfires as part of a multispecies community, she began writing about a new crime of our age, Omnicide. Her latest book, Summertime (Penguin Random House, 2021) was written in recognition of the critical urgency of conveying the complex conceptual recognition of the multispecies harms of the climate catastrophe in ways that can provoke affect and hence action.
Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) Online Conference
In this masterclass, Professor Danielle Celermajer, author of the critically acclaimed work Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Penguin 2021), will explore creative non-fiction as an approach in making sense of more-than-human worlds. Participants will have an opportunity to read sections of Summertime, and also to workshop their own creative non-fiction writing or experiment with this form.