Shé Mackenzie HAWKE (CV 2024)
CONTACT DETAILS
Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University (St Marks National Theological Centre), 15
Blackall Street, Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country Canberra ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA
Email: she.hawke@yahoo.com.au
Address: School of Humanities (SOH formerly SOPHI School of Philosophical and Historical
Inquiry) MAILROOM, A14 Main Quadrangle, The University of Sydney, Broadway. Eora Country,
NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA
Email: she.hawke@sydney.edu.au
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Shé Mackenzie HAWKE is an interdisciplinary scholar. Her research interests include: Environmental
and Feminist Philosophy; Gender and Cultural Studies, Pedagogy; Ancient Greek Philosophy;
Theology; Sociology; Social Justice and Peace; Posthumanism, and Poetry.
Shé is invested in bringing Citizen Scientists to the table with Governance, Business and Academic
Research together with creative industry to make good things happen. She is also an award winning
Australian poet whose works have been translated into Greek and Slovene.
EDUCATION
2018
Charles Sturt University – Graduate Diploma of Theology
2013
The University of Sydney – Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
2008
The University of Sydney – PhD Department of Gender & Cultural
Studies, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
Title: Aqua Mater: Towards a Genealogy of the Impossible.
Supervisors: Elspeth Probyn; Vrasidas Karalis; Clifton Evers.
Examiners: Alison Bartlett (UWA); Katrina Schlunke (UTS) and
Péter Gyorgy Hars (Pecs, Hungary)
2004
Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW
BA Honours, First Class & University Medal (English/Writing)
Title: Depot Girl and the Navigational Tools of Desire and Exile
1996
Training for Health and Community Services (TRHACS) Workplace
Trainer and Assessor Certificate IV (Adult Education Teaching
Certificate)
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GRANTS RECEIVED
Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University, Canberra. Australian Government Research
Training Program (AGRTP) PhD Grant 2021-2024:
Grant Value
AUD $88,500
2021-22 Co-investigator and Co-Lead Partner, EU Commission H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020
Topic: LC-CLA-13-2020 Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities
(SCORE 2021-2025 Slovene component 347.000 Euros) https://score-eu-project.eu
Grant Value
€ 10 Million
Co-investigator, and Senior Researcher ARRS Grant (J71824), ZRS Koper, Slovenia for Surviving the
Anthropocene through Inventing New Ecological Justice and Biosocial Philosophical Literacy (20192022)
Grant Value
€ 300,000
Australian Post Graduate Award (APA) with stipend (2004-2007), AUSTRALIA
$ 63,000
The University of Sydney Post Graduate Research Scheme (PRSS) in 2006, AUSTRALIA $2,000
Inaugural Alumni Scholarship Grant from Southern Cross University (2004-2005), AUSTRALIA
INVITED KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
2019 “Mutually co-evolving: Nature, Culture and the value of Inter-disciplinary Research” 4th
International Ocean Governance for Sustainability– Challenges, Options & the Role of Science,
Dinner Keynote Speaker, National Institute of Biology (NIB), Piran, Slovenia, 25 November 2019
2018 “A Toxic Love Affair: Polluted Leisure in Blue Spaces” Ex Libris Gallery (Curated by
Clifton Evers and James Davoll) School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle Upon Tyne University, 21
September 2018, United Kingdom
2015 “Cross-Cultural Water Values, Literacy and Diplomacy: Policy Challenges in Australian Intra
and Trans Boundary Water Management” at the Mitigating Transboundary Water Conflict, Arava
Institute of Environmental Science, November 2016, Ketura, Israel 7-9 September 2015.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
The University of Sydney, Cadigal, Eora Country, Australia
2008-2025
Honorary Associate, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, School of
Humanities (SOH), formerly School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
2008-2013
Lecturer B, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, School of Philosophical and
Historical Inquiry.
Unit Coordinator/ Lecturer/Tutor in following courses:
Sex Violence & Transgression; Masculinities; Consumer Cultures; Introduction to
Media & Popular Culture; Genres in Cultural Context; Bodies, Sexualities and
Identities; Everyday Cultures; Introduction to Gender Studies
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2012-2013
Lecturer B, the Writing Hub, School of Art, Communication and English.
Lecturer/Tutor in the following course: Writing and Rhetoric
2004-2007
Lecturer A, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, School of Philosophical and
Historical Inquiry.
Lecturer in the following courses:
Bodies, Sexualities and Identities; Introduction to Gender, Media and Popular
Culture
2013
Tutor in Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS), Cadigal Student Support
Services, The University of Sydney
Visiting Professorships and Community Consultation and Research
2019-2020
Visiting Professor at Alma Mater Europaea (AMEU ISH), Maribor, Slovenia in the
Department of the Humanities
2009-2017
Cross-cultural water literacy, eco-philosophical value, and transboundary water
management Rous Water/Widjabul – The Water Walk Rocky Creek Dam; Research
collaboration with Kamilaroi Scientist Bradley Moggridge, NSW Office of Water –
Aboriginal Water Initiative; Collaboration on water with Arava Institute, Israel
2016
Visiting Professor at the Arava Institute of Environmental Science, Ketura, Israel,
hosted by David Lehrer and Shira Kronich
2010-2012
Research Associate
Department of Modern Greek Studies, School of Languages and Cultures (SLAM),
for Associate Professor Vrasidas Karalis and Professor Anthony Dracopolous
2005-2013
Research Associate
Media & Communication, School of Letters and Media, for Professor Gerard Goggin
Science and Research Centre (ZRS) Koper, Slovenia
2019-2022
Research Associate/A/Prof: Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies
Studies (MIOS)
2019-2021
Inaugural Director of Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies (MIOS)
Charles Sturt University, Wiradjuri Country Australia
2019-2024
Adjunct St Marks National Theology Centre, Canberra CSU Campus
2018-2022
Lecturer in Theology, St Marks Theology Campus, Canberra: Lecturer for Christian
Spirituality; Examiner for Being the Church; Honours Examiner
The University of Canberra, Ngunnawal/ Ngambri Australia
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2016-2019
Professional Associate, College of Adjuncts – Centre for Creative and Cultural
Research
The Australian National University, Ngunnawal/ Ngambri Country Australia
2014-2016
Lecturer B, School of Sociology, College of Arts and Social Sciences
Lecturer and tutor for:
Self and Society; Unit Coordinator/ Lecturer/ Tutor for Sex, Gender and Identities:
Introduction to Gender
The University of Technology, Cadigal Eora Country, Sydney
2012-2013
Research Associate
Transforming Cultures, Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, for Dr
Catherine Robinson on the ‘Failure to Feed’ Project
Other
2010
Tutor and Guest Lecturer University of Western Sydney (UWS), School of
Humanities and Languages, For Course: Women in Contemporary Society
2004
Tutor/External Studies/Online Coordinator Southern Cross University (SCU) For
Course: Australia, Asia and the World
NON- ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Age of Fishes Museum of Devonian Fish (AOFM), Wiradjuri Country/ Canowindra NSW,
Australia
2022-2024
AOFM Board Secretary
Casual Tourism Officer
Calvary John James Hospital, Ngunnawal /Ngambri Country Canberra, Australia
2016-2018
Mission Integration Officer
Co-designer CHA Supplementary Papers Workshops and Ethics Training for internal
Professional Development
Designer of Inservice Training and Development for staff in Catholic Social
Teaching Workshops
Principal Consultant with Affinity Consultants Noongar Land, West Australia & Eora Country,
Sydney
1991
1991-2023.1
Founder
CEO/Project Director
- Creative Writing,
- Speech Writing
- Poetry workshops
- Professional Editing & Proof Reading
Education and training, workshop design and delivery to private and public sector in:
- Staff Development/Effective Communication and Training
- Social Justice and Human Rights
- Peace Education and Conflict Resolution
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Anti-discrimination, & Antibias training
Trauma Debriefing
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2020 Hawke, Shé. Biti s Teboj/Being with You. Bilingual Slovene/English Collection. Translation
by: Pesmi sta prevedli Barbara Korun in Iva Jevtić. Foreword/Spremno besedo sta prispevala by
Barbara Korun in Aleksander Peršolja. Društvo Konstructivist, JSKD Sežana, and Apokalipsa Press:
Slovenia.
2020
Hawke, Shé and Jen Webb. Flight Mode. Canberra: Recent Work Press.
2014
Hawke, Shé. Aquamorphia: falling for water. Brisbane: Interactive Publications.
2008
Hawke, Shé. Depot Girl. Cardiff NSW: Picaro Press.
2007
Hawke, Shé and Carolyn van Langenberg. Tender Muse. Cardiff, NSW: Picaro Press.
1986 Hawke, J. M. Living Peaceful Relationships: a resource manual for primary teachers. Illus.
by J. Blythe. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Education Centre Press.
Editor of Edited Books & Special Issue Journals
2022 Hawke, Shé. M., and Reingard Spannring (21 December Winter Solstice). Editorial: “Critical
Inter-disciplinary and Inter-species Approaches to Water Sustainability and Climate Change, in
Visions for Sustainability: Special Issue “Critical Issues For Water Sustainability And Climate
Change, Vol. 18. 3-190 https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions.
2022 Paulsen, M., j. jagodzinski, and S. M. Hawke (Eds.) (13. March) Pedagogy in the
Anthropocene: Re-wilding Education for a New Earth. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. [endorsed
by Professor Will Steffen and Professor Makere Stewart-Harawira]
2021 Shé M. Hawke & Škof, L., (Eds.), Gender, Shame, Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice.
Lexington Books an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. [endorsed by Clifton Evers and Kelly Oliver]
2018 Cirocco, A., & Hawke, S., (Eds. and Authors., Reflections Practice for Everyday Life: A Book
of Living Resources. Sydney. CHA https://www.calvarycare.org.au/wpcontent/uploads/2020/11/vd606-calvary-reflections-a5-booklet-november-2020-web.pdf
Book Chapters
2025 Hawke, Shé, M. Re-storying the Planet through Porous Entanglements and Elemental
Literacy In: Crosscultural Ecoliteracy. Michael Paulsen, and Nanna Jordt Jørgensen (Eds.)
Forthcoming from Routledge.
2024 Hawke, Shé. ‘Re-membering Personal and Political Intersections: The trans-Australian ‘Bike
Ride for Peace’ and under-told protest and activist stories in 1980s West Australia.’
in A Collection on Global Activism at the Margins, Vol. 2. Victoria Grieve-Williams, and Sonjah
Stanley Niaah (Eds.) Forthcoming Bloomsbury.
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2022 Hawke Shé. M., Spannring R. “Embodying the Earth: Environmental Pedagogy, Re-wilding
Waterscapes and Human Consciousness”. In: Paulsen M., Jagodzinski, j., M. Hawke S. (eds)
Pedagogy in the Anthropocene. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Pp. 197-215. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90980-2_10 .
2022 Paulsen, Michael, jan jagodzinski and Shé M. Hawke. “A Critical Introduction” in Paulsen
M., jagodzinski , M. Hawke S. (eds) Pedagogy in the Anthropocene. Palgrave Studies in Educational
Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Pp. 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90980-2_10 .
2022 Paulsen, Michael, jan jagodzinski and Shé M. Hawke. “Outro” in Paulsen M., jagodzinski ,
M. Hawke S. (eds) Pedagogy in the Anthropocene. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave
Macmillan, Cham. Pp. 359-367.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90980-2_10 .
2018 Hawke, Shé. ‘Graft versus Host: Waters that Convey and Harbors that Reject Liminal
Subjects—Towards a New Ethics of Hospitality’ in Borders and Debordering, Eduardo Mendieta, L.
Škof, and T. Grušovnik (Eds.) Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books: Rowman &
Littlefield. pp. 193-214
2012 Hawke, S.M. and Offord, B. ‘Querying Pedagogy and Cultural Studies: Critical Reflections
on teaching Sexuality’, in B. Scherer and M. Ball (eds.) Queer Paradigms Vol. 11: Interrogating
Agendas. Oxford: Lang Publishers. pp. 191-208.
Peer-reviewed Articles
Journal articles:
2023 Hawke, Shé, M. “The Liberating Theology of a Planet’s Beneficence: A Possibility”, in
Special 10th Anniversary Issue of Visions for Sustainability. Solstice December 2023. Vol. 20, No. 2
Pp. 497-514.
2022 Hawke, S.M. and Spannring, R., “Editorial: Critical Inter-disciplinary and Inter-species
Approaches to Water Sustainability and Climate Change”, In Hawke, S.M., and Spannring, R., eds.
Special Issue: “Critical issues for water sustainability and climate change”. Visions for
Sustainability, 18, 3-10 https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions
2022 Meulenberg, C.J.W., Shé M. Hawke, Irina Cavaion, Peter Kumer, Blaž Lenarčič
“Understanding Interdisciplinarity through Adriatic Mariculture and Climate Change Adaptation” In
Special Issue: “Critical issues for water sustainability and climate change”, Visions for Sustainability
Vol. 18, 11-36. https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions
2022 Hawke, S. M. “A Part of Nature or Apart from Nature” In Visions for Sustainability Vol. 18,
125-144. https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions Published online/Open Access, 29 April,
2022 https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions/article/view/6713
2021 Spannring, R. and S. Hawke “Anthropocene Challenges for Youth Research:
Understanding Agency and Change through Complex Adaptive Systems”. In Journal of Youth
Studies (ahead-of-print, open access) Submitted December 2020, Accepted May 2021 Published
online first Open Access June 2021 1-17.
2021 Hawke Shé Mackenzie “Re-evaluating the Role of Early Church Women as non-heretical, but
Holy” In ETIAM - Revista Agustiniana de Pensamiento - ISSN 1851-2682 impreso // ISSNe 27816296 Vol. XV Nro. 16. 93-119.
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2021 Kopnina, H. Spannring, R. Hawke, S. Robertson, C. Thomasberger, A. Maloney, M. Morini,
M. Lynn, W. Zakari Muhammad, N. Santiago-Ávila, F.J. Begovic, H. and Baranowski, M.
“Ecodemocracy in Practice: Exploration of Debates on Limits and Possibilities of Addressing
Environmental Challenges within Democratic Systems” In Visions for Sustainability Vol. 15. June
22, 2021. https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions Article history: Submitted May 10, 2021.
Accepted May 21, 2021. Published online: May 22, 2021. 44-58.
2021 Hawke, Shé M. “Izginula Metidina himna : izvor izgube”. In: Furlan-Štante, N. (ed.), Škof, L.
(ed.), Bjelica, Maja (ed.). Pravičnost, sram, nasilje in feminino : filozofski in večdisciplinarni
vpogledi. Koper: Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Annales ZRS, 2021. Str. 51-69. ISBN
978-961-7058-53-6. (Authorized translation of “The Missing Hymn of Metis: An Origin of Loss” in
Annales Special Issue)
2020 Hawke, Shé. “Seeking Matrology: A Reconsideration of the Under-/Misrepresentation of
Early Church Women” Studies in Spirituality Vol.30, 229-251. doi: 10.2143/SIS.30.0.0000000
Peeters Publishers, Belgium.
2020 Hawke, Shé M. “The Missing Hymn of Metis: An Origin of Loss” Sophia Journal of
Philosophy and Traditions: Vol. 59, Special Issue No. 1. Shame and Absence: Feminist and
Theological Reflections. 69-81. Published online May 6, 2020
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-020-00769-6
2018 Hawke, Shé. “The Exile of Greek Metis: Recovering a Maternal Divine Ontology” In
Poligrafi: Special Edition on Ontologies of Asylum Vol. 23. No 91/92 December, Pp. 41-76.
2017 Hawke, S. and G. Palsson. ‘Water Futures, Biosociality and Otherwise Agency’, Journal of
Associazone Nazionale Universitaria Antropologi Culturali (ANUAC) Vol. 6, No. 1. 233-252
(ITALIA)
2016 Hawke, S.M. ‘Aquanomics’, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism DOI:
10.1080/10455752.2016.1140385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2016.1140385.
2013 Hawke, S.M. ‘Aquamater: A Genealogy of Water’, Feminist Review (Special Issue on
Water), 103, 120-132.
2012 Hawke, S.M. ‘Water Literacy: An ‘other wise’, active and cross-cultural approach to
pedagogy, sustainability and human rights’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies,
26(2), 235-247.
2011 Hawke, S.M. ‘Evolutionary Water: Wombs, Seas, Tears and their Utraquistic Relation’,
Altitude: An e – Journal of emerging humanities work, 9, 1-25.
2010 Hawke, S.M. ‘The Ship Goes Both Ways: Cross-cultural Writing from Joy Damousi, Eleni
Nickas, Antigone Kefala and Beverley Farmer’, Modern Greek Studies: A Journal for Greek Letters,
Australia and New Zealand, 14, 41-56.
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/MGST/article/view/5990/6555
2008 Gibbs, A. and Hawke, S.M. ‘Sándor Ferenczi’s Thalassal Trend and the Role of Affect in the
Psychosomatic Relation’, Thalassa: Hungarian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 19 (1), 37-57.
2007 Hawke, S.M. ‘Infinity and Other Possibilities; Following the Footfall of Charmian Clift,
Beverley Farmer and Sue Woolfe’, Literature and Aesthetics: the Journal of the Sydney Society of
Literature and Aesthetics. 17 (2), 51-65.
https://openjpurnals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/LA/article/view/4924/5616
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2005 Hawke, S.M. ‘Dancing with the Ghost of Charmian Clift: A Ficto-critical Requiem’, Modern
Greek Studies: A Journal for Greek Letters, Australia and New Zealand, 13, 106-121.
Book reviews
2024 Review of Gísli Pálsson, The Last of its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the
Discovery of Extinction Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press 2024. In Visions for
Sustainability (forthcoming Solstice December 2024)
2023 Review of Veronica Strang, Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis
London: Reaktion Books 2023. In Special 10th Anniversary Issue of Visions for Sustainability.
Solstice December 2023. Vol. 20, No. 2 Pp. 489-593.
2017 “Woman Tip Your Lid” review of Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter. Kathy
Jetñil-Kijiner. Arizona, USA: University of Arizona Press. 2017. 82 pages, ISBN 13:978- 0-81653402-9. World Literature Today; Lives Interrupted/Migration Stories Sep- Oct 2017, worldlit.org
2016
“Sharing the Airs” review of Breathing with Luce Irigaray, E. A. Holmes et al (Ed.)
Bloomsbury: London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney. In Sophia: International Journal of
Philosophy and Traditions DOI: 101107/s11841-015-0502-0.
2014 “Old Beings New Becomings: Neo Darwinism and Descartes Dualisms are dead – Again!”
review of Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology, Tim Ingold and
Gisli Palsson (Eds.), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. In Journal of Associazone Nazionale
Universitaria Antropologi Culturali (ANUAC, ITALIA), Vol.3 No.1, pp. 126-128.
2013
“Remembering Memories” review of Remembering Television: Histories, Technologies,
Memories, Kate Darian-Smith and Sue Turnbull (Eds), Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle
Upon Tyne. In: Media International Australia, No. 148 – August 2013, p. 162.
2003
“Travelling Borderlands” review of The Teetotaller’s Wake by Carolyn van Langenberg,
Indra Publishing: SA. In: Australian Women’s Book Review, Vol. 15.2 – November 2003, pp. 37-38.
Journal Editor/Peer Reviewer/Editorial Boards
2024
Springer Nature/Routledge Peer Reviewer
2021-present
Visions for Sustainability (https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions/people)
Editorial Board
2019-2020
Sophia International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (Springer) Peer Reviewer
2015
Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, monograph reviewer Short Title book series
2012-2016
Altitude Journal: An e journal for emerging humanities work
2005-2012
Modern Greek Studies: A Journal for Greek Letters, Australia and New Zealand 14,
2009/10; 15, 2011/2012 The University of Sydney
2009-2011
Kurungabaa: a journal of literature and history of ideas from the sea
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INVITED GUEST SEMINARS/LECTURES/SPEECHES
2023 “An Edge of Chaos Story: Complex Adaptive Systems and Social Change” Guest Lecture for
Masters Course: ‘Development and Education in Young People and Adults 603872’
Department of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck/ Leopold Franzens University, 6
November 2023. Hosted by Dr Reingard Spannring
2021 “Spirituality and Justice and Spirituality and Ecology”. Guest lecture for UNIT THL 216
“Christian Spirituality” for School of Theology, Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt
University, Canberra, 17 May 2021.
2020 “Resistance: from street marches to the poets' pen”. Guest Lecture for UNIT CG 350
"Narratives of Resistance: From the Greek War of Independence to the Resilience against the
Coronavirus," for the Department of Classical Studies, Boston University, [online], 18 November.
Hosted by Dr Vassiliki Rapti
2020 “Writing Water Story: Water Literacy and the Aqua App” Guest Lecture co-designed with Dr
Reingard Spannring for: Compulsory Modul 6: Universal Values - Education for Sustainable
Development (990006), Department for Educational Sciences, Leopold Franzens/University of
Innsbruck, 21 October.
2019 “Mutually co-evolving: Nature, Culture and the value of Inter-disciplinary Research” 4th
International Ocean Governance for Sustainability– Challenges, Options & the Role of Science,
Dinner Speaker, National Institute of Biology (NIB), Piran, Slovenia, 25 November 2019
2018 “Biosocial Confluence: Mapping Futures Down a Complex Adaptive Stream” to National
Institute of Biology, Piran, Slovenia, 27 September 2018
2016 “The Play of Water from Mythic Metis to the Contemporary Beach: The Poetics of
Aquamorphia”, Ludics Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University. USA, 14
November 2016
2016 “The Quest for God (or something like it): Jung, Yoda and the Hero Archetype” at the
Canberra Jung Society, 7 October 2016, Australia.
2014 Research School of Social Sciences, Seminar Series, Semester II, The Australian National
University, “The Social Worlds of the River, as an Agent in its own Becoming: The
Cotter/Murrumbidgee River Corridor” October.
2014 Research School of Social Sciences, Seminar Series, Australian National University,
“Reading Water Futures: Resilience Thinking, Biosociality and Complex Adaptive Systems Theory”
24 February.
2014 Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU ENVS1001, Australian National University,
“Reading Water Futures and Values on the panel: “Water and People’s: The Importance of
Community Participation in Sustainability Governance”, 6 May.
2011 Inspired Voices Seminar Series, Philosophy Department, The University of Sydney Convenor Professor Rick Benitez. “The Transfiguration of Metis” 12 May.
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CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIA PAPERS
2022 “Launch of the AquaMOOC” Hosted by Reingard Spannring (University of Innsbruck, Faculty
of Education, Austria) and Shé Hawke (Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies, Koper,
Slovenia) 8 April. https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/info/2022/launch-of-the-aquamooc.html
2021 “Changing the Face of the Earth and its Waters” at In the Swirl of Change: Water, Life and
Climate Symposium: Hosted by the National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 14-15 October.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf2y2NHuhyw
2021 “Re-wilding Waterscapes Through a Renewed ‘Ecology of Mind’” at International workshop:
Water Epistemologies: Trans-cultural and Trasnspecies Knowledge, Ethics and Citizenship in
Waterscapes: Hosted by Reingard Spannring (University of Innsbruck, Faculty of Education, Austria )
and Tomaž Grušovnik (University of Primorska, Faculty of Education, Slovenia) 21 June.
2021 “Re-Stor(y)ing a World: Porous Entanglements and Elemental Literacy” paper on panel:
“Cross-cultural, Elemental Consciousness and Embodied Cohabitation” at Surviving The Anthropocene
Towards Elemental Literacy And Interdisciplinary Partnerships: An Interdisciplinary Symposium 26
May, 2021 – Hosted by University of Iceland; Science and Research Centre, Slovenia; University of
Innsbruck, Austria and Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia. (Funded by ARRS J71824)
2021 “End on Sea” paper on panel: “Creating with Polluted Seas: Toxic Wellbeing, Terrible Beauty,
and New Water Literacies” at Living in End Times Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pancrises in Fiction, Film and Culture: A (Virtual) Interdisciplinary Conference
14 January, 2021—Cappadocia University, Turkey (Funded by ARRS J7-1824)
2020
“A Critical Need for Environmental Literacy – Re-wilding Human Consciousness”, paper at
Anthropocenes: Reworking the Wound, University of Katowice, Poland in Association with European
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, 19 June 2020 (Funded by ARRS J71824, Slovenia)
2020 "Becoming Eco-fluent: Being with Nature" paper at Surviving the Anthropocene: EcoPedagogy and Eco-philosophy: Public Lectures, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 17 April, 2020.
(Funded by ARRS J71824, Slovenia)
2020 “From the Future we Want to the Future we Need” paper at From Environmental Concerns to
a European Green Deal: An Integral Framework of Learning for Sustainability. Maribor, Slovenia,
13-14 March 2020 (Funded by ARRS J71824)
2019 “Anthropocene Survival through Inventing New Ecological Justice and Biosocial
Philosophical Literacy” paper at Integral Green Economy for a Better World (IGE), Poljčane,
Slovenia, 22 November 2019 (Funded by ARRS J71824)
2018 “An Origin Of Loss: Dissolution Of Divine Metis from Sacred Mysteries to Relinquishing
Mother of Athena in Common Myth” paper at: Terrors of Injustice: Gender Violence and Ethics of
Shame, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 4-5 October 2018
2016 “Host Versus Graft: Waters That Convey And Harbours That Reject Liminal Subjects –
Towards A New Ethics Of Hospitality” paper at: borders / debordering: Towards a New World
Culture of Hospitality, ZRS, Slovenia, 3 July.
2014 “Becoming Water, and more-than-human Currents in Irigaray’s Marine Lover & Divine
Women” paper on panel: Water Topologies: Irigaray’s More than Human Becomings” at Irigaray
Circle Conference, RMIT, Melbourne 11 December.
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2014 “Affective River Readings: Intersecting Bourdieu’s Agency, Field and Habitus with a
Psychological History of Human and non-human Becoming through Water Relations” at:
Environmental Humanities (AZLEC/ANZ) Conference: Affective Habitus: Hosted by Humanities
Research Centre, ANU, 21 June.
2012 Bloom Where You Are Planted, Sacra Coeur International Conference, Sancta Sophia
College, The University of Sydney. “Cross-Cultural and Elemental Literacy and Rhetoric: The
Widjabul/Rous Alliance” 7 July.
2010 “Water: A Scholarly, Cross-cultural, Canonical Approach” paper at A Scholarly Affair,
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Byron Bay/ Southern Cross University, NSW 7-9
December.
2010
“Water Literacy: A Missing Link in Darwinism Recovered in Eco-Criticism and CrossCultural Knowledge” paper at Literature and Science Conference, Fourth annual conference of The
Australasian Association for Literature, University of New South Wales, 5-6July.
2008 “Literary & Cultural Odyssey’s” paper at (panel with Arnold Zable and Angela Costi)
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Greek Studies Conference for the Modern Greek Studies Association
of Australia and New Zealand, 9th BiennialConference,LaTrobeUniversity,Melbourne,11–13
December.
2008 “The Displaced Heart in Translation: A Liminal Place” paper at (panel with Judy Singer
[refugee health], Susan Andrews [children overboard], and Dave Corlett [climate change refugees])
Activating Human Rights Conference: Universal Responsibility, Southern Cross University, Byron
Bay NSW, 1-4 July.
2008 “Writing the Region: Belonging and Betrayal in the Hinterland” – paper at Critical
regionalism: Realising the Local Mini-Conference of the Australian Society for the Appreciation of
Literature (ASAL), Curtin University, WA, 9-10 February.
2007 “The Ship Goes Both Ways: an appreciation of textual and cultural diversity in the narrative,
memoir and history of Joy Damousi, Helen Nickas, Antigone Kefala and Beverley Farmer” –at ASAL
Conference, The Colonial Present: Australian Writing for the 21 Century, The University of
Queensland. 14 July.
2006 “Infinity and Other Possibilities: Expatriate Australian Women Writing on Greece –
Charmian Clift, Beverley Farmer and Sue Woolfe” paper at (panel with Beverley Farmer) Conference
on Minorities and Minority Discourses in the Greek World. Sponsored by The Modern Greek Studies
Association of Australia and New Zealand, The University of Sydney, 14-16 December.
2006 “The Epistemology of Tenderness: Attending to the Unattended” paper at (panel with Anna
Gibbs) Psychoanalysis and Psychosomatics: Mind, Body and the Bridge Between at the Clinical
Sándor Ferenczi Conference, Baden Baden, Germany, sponsored by the Association for the
Advancement of Psychoanalysis. 2-6 August.
2005 “Unfixed in Fluids”, Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)
University of Technology, Sydney. 22 November.
2004 “Re-Mapping Mateship” paper at The Politics of Friendship - A Symposium on Friendship,
Gender and Nation in Australia, Britain and The Empire, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies,
University of London, 26-27 June.
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INVITED PERFORMANCES AND BOOK LAUNCHES
2021 Invited Australian Poet, reading new and selected work at That Poetry Thing that Happens at
Smiths on Monday Nights. 7 June, 2021, including excerpts from “Biti s teboj/Being with You” (2020),
Flight Mode (2020), Aquamorphia (2014), and Depot Girl (2008).
2021 “Biti s teboj/Being with You” Launch event of bilingual poetry collection (Apokalipsa, JSKD,
Društvo Konstruktivist, Slovenia 2020) hosted by Kosovel Memorial Room Curator Mateja Krajl and
JSKD and Apokalipsa Press 8 February. Speakers: Pesmi sta prevedli Barbara Korun in Iva Jevtić.
Spremno besedo sta prispevala Barbara Korun in Aleksander Peršolja.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg0WWwZOZbQ
2020 Zoom Launch of Flight Mode, co-authored with Jen Webb, at Smith’s Bookshop, Alinga St,
Civic, Canberra, hosted by Recent Work Press, Canberra, launched by Shane Strange. 2 November.
2020 “Sezana” and “Winded” at Sosed Tvojega Brega 2020, Metlika, Slovenia. Book launch of
Paralele 30 and workshops 30 August. 42nd Slovenian National Meeting of authors writing in their
mother tongue, The Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities, in cooperation
with the Metlika Regional Branch, Slovenia.
2020 “The Breath of Trees/ Dih Dreves”; “Sežana”; “Winded” at Sosed Tvojega Brega Poetry
Reading for Migrants and Neighbours of Slovenia, Ljubljana, 21 February 2020.
2014 Launch of Aquamorphia: Falling for Water (IP 2014) by Dr Gavin Smith (ANU) and
Kamilaroi Scientist Mr Brad Moggridge at Smiths Bookshop, Canberra 14 December.
2014 Launch of Aquamorphia: Falling for Water (IP 2014) by Professor Vrasidas Karalis & Helen
Nickas at the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia & New Zealand 12th Biennial
Conference: Un-Framing Hellenism: Greek Culture After the Crisis, The University of Sydney, 4
December.
2013 Now Hear This Stories that Celebrate the Centenary of Canberra 23 May, ABC Radio 666
“Hawkey’s Daughter: How’s Your Father”.
2009 Feast Festival South Australia: On The Lounge Meet the Author, Adelaide. Shé Hawke and
Susan Margery. Creative producer Kerry Ireland 14-19 November.
2008 Peter Skrzynecki and Shé Hawke “Outsiders In” Poetry Reading- Other Worlds and Depot
Girl, Kirribilli Books, 7 December.
2008 Depot Girl – coming soon to a stop near you launched by Elspeth Probyn, Katrina Schlunke
and Vrasidas Karalis, Coop Bookshop, The University of Sydney, 19 September.
2007 Tender Muse – launched by Anna Gibbs, The Feminist Bookshop, Lilyfield, Sydney, 22
September.
2005-07 Poetry Performances: new and selected work. Brett Whitely Studio, Surrey Hills, Sydney.
2000-04 Lismore Live Poets performances at The Rous Hotel, Lismore.
2004
“Driving Desire” Byron Bay Writers’ Festival Poetry Cup (winner)
2004
Poetica-Australia’s Far East Poets produced by Mike Ladd (7 February) Shé Hawke reads
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2003 Special Guest on Life Matters with Julie McCrossin and Geraldine Doogue, “Depot Girl Goes
to London University” July, ABC Radio.
2002 Performance Poetry – “The Shed” at the launch of The School of Arts and Social Sciences,
Southern Cross University, Lismore, November.
PhD SUPERVISION
PhD Supervision: Emma Shae Davies, “Ecological Subjecthood” Doctorate conferred October 2019,
Australian National University (ANU), Australia.
PhD Mentor: Sr Hildegard Ryan (OSB) Obsculta Listen Carefully: A Study of Benedictine Continuity
of Charism and Tradition with a Focus on the Benedictine Nuns of Subiaco, Rydalmere, New South
Wales. (Sydney College of Divinity), Australia. 2018-2021
CONTRIBUTION TO RESEARCH COMMUNITY
HDR Member of Faculty of Arts and Education (FOAE) Research Committee, Charles Sturt
University , NSW 2024 -)
Secretary of the Age of Fishes Museum Executive Board, Canowindra NSW, AUSTRALIA (20232024)
Member of the European Rights of Nature Hub (2020-) https://therightsofnature.org/what-is-rights-ofnature/
Co-investigator on EU Commission project H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020 Topic: LC-CLA-132020 Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities. Led by It Sligo, Ireland.
(SCORE 2021-2025 Overall value Euros 10 million) (2021-2025) https://score-eu-project.eu Grant
Agreement No. 101007142.
Co-author and Co-Investigator of Slovenian Research Agency Grant (ARRS J7-1824) Mediterranean
Institute for Environmental Studies MIOS (and Institute for Philosophy) ZRS Koper, Slovenia (value
300,000 Euros) for Surviving the Anthropocene through Inventing New Ecological Justice and
Biosocial Philosophical Literacy (2019- 2022)
Co-convenor with Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies, of the Symposium Surviving
The Anthropocene: Through Elemental Literacy and Inter-disciplinary Partnerships, ICELAND May
24-26 2021, co-funded by the Science and Research Centre (ZRS) Koper, SLOVENIA, and the
Slovenian Research Agency
International collaboration with Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, ISRAEL on
Transboundary Water Management and Policy, ongoing (2012-2024)
Convened Transboundary Water networking meeting in the Byron Bay Hinterland/ Widjabul Country
NSW, with Shira Kronich (Arava Institute, Israel), and Anthony Acret representing Rous Water and
the Widjabul people, 2016 AUSTRALIA
Higher Degree Research Supervision/Mentoring – PhD, Masters and Honours (USYD & ANU 20122018); St Marks Theological College, Charles Sturt University, Canberra ACT, AUSTRALIA, 2019.
Science and Research Centre, Koper Slovenia 2020.
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Honours Degree Research Examination, ANU, Canberra 2015; St Marks Theological Centre,
Canberra CSU, AUSTRALIA, 2019.
Established the George Lewin Alumni Scholarship for Honours students inaugurated on 27 July 2004,
securing 4x$5,000 scholarships for Honours students suffering financial or social hardship. Southern
Cross University, NSW, AUSTRALIA, Value-to-date: $400,000
Collaboration with Rous Water (Lismore), and the First Nations Widjabul people of the Northern
Rivers on water management and cultural values [Uncle Roy Gordon and Anthony Acret], NSW,
AUSTRALIA (2010-2016), and with First Nations Kamilaroi man Bradley Moggridge (2014-2017)
from the Aboriginal Water Initiative NSW, AUSTRALIA
Co-convenor of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference – A Scholarly Affair,
hosted by Southern Cross University (SCU), Lismore, 7- 9 December 2010, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Co-convenor of the Australian Greek Studies Conference hosted by the Department of Modern Greek
Studies, The University of Sydney 14-16 December 2006, AUSTRALIA
SELECTED MEDIA & NON-SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS & PERFORMANCES
Radio, Digital & Print Media
2023 Giving Rivers a Voice
The Aqua MOOC learning platform (Spannring and Hawke)
In zukunft forschung 02/23 Story by: Andreas Hauser pp. 18-19. 9 November 2023
2022 Shé Hawke on Water and Fire, on The Sea and Us/ Morje in mi program
Povezava: https://www.rtvslo.si/radio/podkasti/morjeinmi/173250778/174890268
Radio Koper. Episode 280.
Oddaja "Morje in mi" 1 August 2022
2021 Piran a Coastal City Living Lab on SCORE European Commission Project
https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-koper/prispevki/novice/piran-bo-zivi-laboratorij-iskanja-trajnostnihresitev-za-omilitev-posledic-podnebne-krize/597879
2021
Score European Commission Project on Coastal City Living labs (CCLL) SHINK2C
interview with Lea Širok https://www.rtvslo.si/youngvillagefolk/novice/piran-bo-zivi-laboratorijiskanja-trajnostnih-resitev-za-omilitev-posledic-podnebne-krize/597879
2021 RAZISKOVALCI ZRS KOPER SODELUJEJO V POMEMBNEM PROJEKTU: Piran bo
postal eden izmed živih laboratorijev evropskih obalnih mest, 22 September
https://www.regionalobala.si/novica/raziskovalci-zrs-koper-sodelujejo-v-pomembnem-projektu-piranbo-postal-eden-izmed-zivih-laboratorije
2021 The Canberra Times: LIT BITS- Geoff’s Poetry at Smith’s. Shé Hawke reading new and
selected poetry. 7 June https://www.smithsalternative.com/events/geoff-s-poetry-at-smith-s72706?d=7%2F06%2F2021+7%3A00%3A00+PM
2020 NAGRADA ZA POEZIJO SODELAVKI ZRS KOPER: Uspeh dr. Shé Mackenzie Hawke na
državnem srečanju manjšinskih pesnikov in pisateljev September 3, 2020 Regional News Koper,
Slovenia https://www.regionalobala.si/novica/nagrada-za-poezijo-sodelavki-zrs-koper-uspeh-dr-shemackenzie-hawke-na-drzavnem-srecanju-manjsinskih
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2020 PRIMORSKI ČEBELAR BOŠTJAN TROBEC OB SVETOVNEM DNEVU ČEBEL: "Obeti
za prihodnost so zaskrbljujoči" May 19, 2020 Regional News Koper
https://www.regionalobala.si/novica/primorski-cebelar-bostjan-trobec-ob-svetovnem-dnevu-cebelobeti-za-prihodnost-so-zaskrbljujoci2020 50. OBLETNICA DNEVA ZEMLJE: Naj bo svetovni dan Zemlje vsak dan!/ 50th
Anniversary of Earth Day: May Earth Day be every day! https://www.regionalobala.si/novica/50obletnica-dneva-zemlje-naj-bo-svetovni-dan-zemlje-vsak-dan- April 22, Regional News, Koper Slovenia,
Editorial from Dr Shé Hawke, Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies, ZRS, Slovenia.
2020 50 Years of Earth Day on Radio FM 103 or 104,1 or 88,1
Monday 27the April Produced by Lea Širok at 13.30 hrs
https://www.rtvslo.si/radiokoper
https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/morje-in-mi/174689121
2020 Hawke, Shé M and L. Škof “Podnebne Spremembe in naša skupna človečnost” Climate
Change and our Shared Humanity” in DELO, www.delo.si March 22 2020.
https://www.delo.si/novice/okolje/podnebne-spremembe-in-nasa-skupna-clovecnost-290047.html
2015 Sunday Brunch with Greg Bayliss & Jolene Laverty 12 July ABC Radio 666 “Aquamorphia:
water, love and the history of the loo”
2013 Now Hear This ABC Radio 666, (produced by Melanie Tait) “Hawkey’s Daughter” 23 May
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/nowhearthis/shehawke/4993812
2012 All the Best: Coast to Coast, FBi Radio (produced by Kate Montague and Belinda Lopez)
“The Summer of ‘75” 23 September
Television
2008 Special Guest on Compass ABC TV: “More than the 3R’s: Choosing a High School for your
Child” Sydney, Host: Geraldine Doogue, produced by Deb Bourne August.
Podcasts
2024
Wheelchair basketball participant interview with Wheelchair Sports NSW/ ACT
2012 Tell me a Story: Pipped at the Post (produced by Kathryn Bendall) “Hello Christian!”
Podcast of performance November 4 Roxbury Hotel, Sydney
2006-07 1001 Nights: A durational performance produced by Barbara Campbell
Night 468 (01/10/06) “To the Outside World” Shé Hawke
Night 616 (21/02/07) “Looking for Examples”
Night 843 (11/10/07) “Six Days in the Sheraton”
Non-Scholarly Publications, Poetry & Editorships
2022 “Breathing with Horses”; “Being with Trees” in Sosed Tvojega Brega PARALELE, May 29
August (Funded by The Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities, Slovenian)
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2022
“Falling Trees” in EREMOS, April 2022, No. 154 pp 10-13.
2020 “Sežana”; “Winded” in Sosed Tvojega Brega PARALELE, August 2020, pp. 131-132 (Funded
by The Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities, Slovenian)
2017 “Round River”, and “The Willing”, in Just Off Message: A 20th Year Anthology. David P.
Reiter (ed.) Interactive Press: Carindale. Pp. 80-82.
2015
“Brief-Cased Girl”, in Meniscus, August, Vol. 3. No. 2. P. 19.
2010 Eleni Nickas, Athina’s Daughters: A memoir of two worlds, Owl Publications, Melbourne
(English co-editor with Gillian Bouras).
2010 “Reading Water: The Amniotic Sea of Metis” in Kurungabaa: a journal of history and ideas
from the sea, Vol 5, (1) pp. 49-50.
2009 “The Origin of Species needs a feminist take” Newcastle Herald Feature Article by Shé
Hawke, Sydney University 18/02/2009.
2009
“l’ appassionata del l’acqua” in Kurungabaa: a journal of history and ideas from the sea,
Vol. 2, (2) pp. 74-78.
2009 “Beaching Water: 1975-2007” in Kurungabaa: a journal of history and ideas from the sea,
Vol. 2 (1) pp.73-78.
2009 “Tidal Pull” in Kurangabaa: a journal of history and ideas from the sea
http://kurungabaa.net/2009/03/31/tidal-pull-by-she-hawke-2/.
2009 “Little Wategos” in Kurangabaa: a journal of history and ideas from the sea
http://kurungabaa.net/2009/02/27/excerpt-from-depot-girl-by-she-hawke/.
2003 Wingbeats: Poetry from Byron Bay and Beyond: Dangerously Poetic Press: Byron Bay (Coeditor)
2001 Coastlines 2: New Writing from Southern Cross; Southern Cross University Press, (Co-editor
with I. Curteis, D. Prussian, C. Yarrow et al)
AWARDS
Scholarly
2018
Deans Citation for Academic Excellence (Grad Dip Theology) Charles Sturt University
2004
University Medal (BA Arts With First Class Honours) Southern Cross University, Lismore
Community & Peace Building
1986 International Year of Peace Award (co-awarded with Alyn Ware - Mobile Peace Van
Education, Ministry of Education), Aotearoa/New Zealand
Poetry
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2020 Sosed Tvojega Brega/Neighbour of Your Shore, 2020, Slovenia, Gold Award for “Sezana”
and “Winded” Funded by the Slovenian Cultural Fund & JSKD
2004 Byron Bay Writers Festival Poetry Prize, Northern Rivers Writers Centre for “Driving
Desire”
2003
Lismore Poetry Cup People’s Choice Award For “Driving Desire”
Shortlists
2021 Sosed Tvojega Brega/ Neighbour of Your Shore, 2022, Shortlist for “Breathing with Horses”
and Being with Trees” Funded by the Slovenian Cultural Fund & JSKD
2009
Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Colin Roderick Award For Depot Girl
Nominations
2015 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award, & Queensland Premier’s Literary Award &
South Australia Premier’s Literary Award for Aquamorphia: Falling for Water.
2015
Australian National University for Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence.
2009 The Miles Franklin Literary Award, & Victorian Premier’s Literary Award – C J. Dennis
Poetry & Queensland Premier’s Literary Award For Depot Girl
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