Join Prof John Morrissey for a discussion about his recent Fellowship research focused on the environmental writing of renowned Australian poet and author Judith Wright.
Prof John Morrissey is a 2025 National Library of Australia Fellow, supported by the Stokes family.
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Entry to this event is free but bookings are essential.
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The conversation will also be available online. Please make a booking and the Library will send you a direct link to the livestream event via email. Or you can join through the Library’s YouTube channel .
About Prof John Morrissey’s Fellowship research
During his Fellowship, Prof John Morrissey explored Wright’s archives to uncover her writing on human life in a wider ecosystem and her inspiring efforts to communicate a pathway to a more ecologically responsible world.
In discussing Wright’s writing and activism, Prof Morrissey aims to show how she wrote brilliantly and presciently about how to be ‘true to the earth’ through ‘values beyond the economic’ and how her environmental vision can give vital direction and hope to contemporary environmental campaigns.
About Prof John Morrissey
John Morrissey is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Galway. His research has been focused on archival examinations of key concerns of human geography and international relations, spanning geopolitics, security and development. For the last 15 years, he has been Programme Director of University of Galway’s award-winning MA in Environment, Society and Development, which addresses core challenges of development, sustainability and environmental and social justice, and involves students working with the United Nations in Bosnia.
His current research is concerned with human security from a critical political ecology perspective, which has led to his interest in Australian poet, Judith Wright, whose writings on ecology have been largely overlooked.
About National Library of Australia Fellowships
The National Library of Australia Fellowships program offers researchers an opportunity to undertake a 12-week residency at the Library. This program is supported by generous donors and bequests.
Image credit: Terry Milligan, Portrait of Judith Wright, c. 1998, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1891350
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