Requiem discussion panels curated by Danielle Celermajer and Michelle St Anne.

The impacts of the fires of black summer fell unevenly on different human, animal, and plant lives, but they also exposed the shared vulnerabilities of all living beings and ecosystems, and our many entanglements. Never has it been clearer that we humans are embedded in, and ‘in this together’ with all other earth beings. As loss proliferated, we all confronted the truth that the condition for human life, and beyond this, the possibility of meaning in our lives rests on the worlds in which we are embedded. That humans and the more-than-human world do not exist in distinct and separate realms is inherent to the philosophies and lifeways of many peoples, including those of the First Peoples of this nation. The speakers on this panel will share their understandings and practices of what it means to live in and of an entangled world.

Speakers

Sophie Chao, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney

David King, Gundungurra Aboriginal elder from The Gully (Garguree) Katoomba region

Jakelin Troy, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research, University of Sydney

Dinesh Wadiwel (Chair), Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney

View the full Sydney Festival Requiem programme here. Limited registrations are available for panels and performances in accordance with NSW COVID restrictions.

In accordance with NSW COVID Public Health Orders, we ask everyone to please bring a face mask with them and wear it at all times within the space. QR check-ins with the Service NSW COVID Safe Check-In app is mandatory upon entrance. Social distancing measures will be in place along with hand sanitiser stations.