The Vitalities Lab presents a new salon for sharing arts-led and creative research in the more-than-human worlds we inhabit. This series is organised by Professor Deborah Lupton, Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, and Dr Anastasia Murney.
Each gathering offers a space for lively exchange across disciplines, exploring how creative methods can illuminate the vitalities that emerge when humans encounter non-human entities – other living beings, the four elements of earth, wind, air, and fire, geological features, and human-made objects, including built environments and digital devices.
Bringing together researchers, practitioners, artists, curators, thinkers, and the creatively curious, these salons feature special guests and activities that invite participants to engage with more-than-human entanglements in innovative and surprising ways.
Salon #3: Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Weathering
In this Salon, Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton will briefly sketch the theoretical framework of weathering. This is further elaborated in their recently published book, How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2026),co-authored with Astrida Neimanis and Tessa Zettel. Jennifer will share some concrete examples of their work in practice, including the Community Weathering Station (CoWS), Armidale Climate and Health Project (ACHP) and more recent studies in Shiatsu. They also hope to touch on some of the key concerns of their memoir fragment ‘Modes of Thermoregulation’ (TEXT, 2026) before opening into a discussion about embodiment, affect, the theory/practice nexus and the centrality of process.
Bios:
Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton lives and works on Anaiwan Country as Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of New England (UNE), curator and community organiser. Her research explores climate change adaptation as an embodied process from a queer, feminist and anti-colonial perspective, using creative practice methods, community economies frameworks and close textual analysis. Her most recent publications are ‘Modes of Thermoregulation’ (TEXT, 2026) and co-authored with Astrida Neimanis, How to weather together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). She’s also the 2026 convenor of grassroots community transition organisation Sustainable Living Armidale and curated the group show How to weather together at New England Regional Art Museum November 2025–February 2026.
Professor Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia. Her research is interdisciplinary, spanning sociology, media and cultural studies, and often involves arts-based and other creative methods for research and community engagement. She is located in the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre, leading both the Vitalities Lab and the UNSW Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Professor Lupton is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of NSW and has been awarded two honorary doctorates. She is the author/coauthor of 20 academic books and editor/co-editor of a further 11 volumes.
Dr Anastasia Murney is an artist, researcher, and award-winning educator living on unceded Gadigal land. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Social Research in Health and The Vitalities Lab at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She holds a PhD in Art Theory and Visual Culture (2021) and teaches across contemporary art, social movements, and environmental humanities. Anastasia has published her research in international peer-reviewed journals and edited books published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. She has led creative arts workshops at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Wollongong Art Gallery, and Frontyard Projects in Marrickville, Sydney.
Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris is an Australian-Swedish curator, writer, and researcher based on Dharug and Gundungurra Country. Her expertise lies in eco-aesthetics, curatorial theory, and water-based methodologies. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate at UNSW within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Bronwyn holds a PhD in curatorial theory and maintains an independent curatorial practice. Her research proposing the Hydrocene as a disruptive epoch is internationally recognized and is the focus of her monograph, The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water (Routledge, Environmental Humanities Series 2024).
WHEN: 13 November 2025
TIME: 3pm – 4:30pm
HOW TO JOIN: Via Microsoft Teams. Join the meeting now.
Further information:
How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change
How to Weather Together Sydney Book Launch Party
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