text: Biodiversity and Extinction: Can We Achieve Justice for All? — Sydney Environment Institute
  Climate change, resource extraction and increasing levels of extinction present unprecedented challenges. How can the humanities and social sciences help us to respond to the biodiversity crisis in a more just way, which transforms how we protect the foundations of life on our planet?
  Professor Danielle Celermajer (Chair), University of Sydney
  Marisol de la Cadena is Professor at the Department of Anthropology Sociocultural Wing at the University of California, Davis. Currently her field sites are cattle ranches and veterinary schools in Colombia. There she engages with practices and relations between people, cows, and 'things' in general. Her most recent book, Earth Beings. Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds (2015), is based on conversations with two Quechua-speaking men who lived in Cuzco (Peru).
  Ravi Agarwal has an inter-disciplinary practice as an artist, environmental researcher and campaigner, writer and curator. His work, explores key contemporary questions around ecology, society, urban space and capital. He works with photographs, video, installations, and public art and has been shown widely in events, like the the Kochi Biennial (2016), Sharjah Biennial (2013) and Documenta XI (2002). Ravi is also the founder of the Indian environmental NGO Toxics Link which has pioneered work in waste and chemicals in India, and campaigns on conserving rivers and the forest in Delhi.
  Thom van Doorenis Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017-2021) in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, and founding co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (Duke University Press). His research and writing focus on some of the many philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places. He is the author of The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (2019), and co-editor of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (2017), published by Columbia University Press.
  Danielle Celermajer's professional life has been characterised by moving between organisations whose principal focus is human rights policy, advocacy and scholarship, and seeking a greater integration between these dimensions of human rights work. Since joining the University of Sydney in 2005, she has established two postgraduate human rights programs aimed at forging precisely this type of integration between the best of scholarship and effective human rights practice. The Master of Human Rights and Democratisation (Asia Pacific Program) was established with a 1.5 million euro grant from the European Commission, and now runs from Mahidol University in Thailand and is an integral part of the Global Campus of Human Rights.
  Sophie Chao is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney's School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and the Charles Perkins Centre. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Macquarie University and previously worked for international indigenous rights organization Forest Peoples Programme. Sophie's current research explores the impacts of climate change on indigenous foodways and on indigenous phenomenologies of hunger and satiety.