The Swamposium Reading Group is an initiative of the project Surfacing Urban Wetlands, which is working to visualise connections between watery places in relation to urbanisation.

Each session, we read a piece of scholarship on water and a creative piece (a zine, visual essay, a website or another visual mode)

Our format builds on other reading groups we have been part of such as the Composting Feminism Reading Group (https://compostingfeminisms.wordpress.com/). Magnetic Topographies (https://magnetictopographies.com/Introduction) and the Place, Race and Critical Theory Reading Group (https://prctrg.wordpress.com/).

Invitation to Join: The Swamposium reading group is open to everyone — readers, writers, researchers, postgrad students, undergrad students, artists, poets, activists, designers. It is especially suited to anyone whose projects or research intersects with urban wetlands or waterways in some way.

Bi Monthly (every 2 months) reading group on Wednesday afternoons, 5-7pm at Field Rooms. 

If you are interested in joining please email holly.oneil@uts.edu.au to receive emails about the readings and further details.

The schedule:

Swamposium RG 1: February  11

Swamp City (zine by Monty Hancock)

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Leah M. Gibbs (2009) Water Places: Cultural, Social and More-ThanHuman Geographies of Nature, Scottish Geographical Journal, 125:3-4, 361-369, DOI: 10.1080/14702540903364393

Reading Group RG 2: March 11

The river ends as the ocean Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor, Astrida Neimanis and Clare Britton, Shanghai Biennale Phrase 2 – An Ecosystem of Alliances, Power Station of Art, Shanghai and along the river in Sydney. Printed in Sydney by Pinch Press, 2020.

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McLean, J., Lonsdale, A., Hammersley, L., O’Gorman, E., & Miller, F. (2018). Shadow waters: Making Australian water cultures visible. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(4), 615-629.

Reading Group RG 3: TBC