Past events
Arresting incarceration: Pathways out of Indigenous imprisonment
Lecture/seminar
When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody produced its final report, it concluded that the high rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody stemmed from the over-representation of Aboriginal people in prisons and police lockups. The Commission made more than 300 recommendations, most of…
CAR Seminar series - The 1st Dynasty Elite Cemetery of Abu Rawash
Lecture
The 1st Dynasty Elite Cemetery of Abu Rawash. Discoveries of the earliest remains of funerary boats known in Egypt (2950 BC). Dr Yann Tristant (Macquarie University) The site of Abu Rawash is located at the northern edge of the great Egyptian necropolis of Memphis, about 8 km northwest of the…
Conversations Across the Creek #4
Lecture
Conversations is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the aim of…
The Public Life of History - with Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lecture
Dipesh Chakrabarty in conversation with Meera Ashar and Frank Bongiorno, reflecting on the public life of history in Asia and Australia and how historians participate in debates about the past. Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service…
Picturing Politics
Symposium
Picturing Politics presents recent research behind the production, dissemination and collection of activist graphics. 3 - 5pm Round Table Forum With representatives from natural cultural institutions, private collectors and independent makers. Speakers include: Alison Alder, Carol…
QRN Forum - Qualitative research at the margins: case studies of innovative methods
Lecture/seminar
The ANU Qualitative Research Network (QRN) proudly presents its second forum. Forum Theme: Qualitative research at the margins: case studies of innovative methods Our speakers: Dr Naomi Priest (Centre for Social Research and Methods) Dr Naomi Priest is a Fellow at the Centre…
Gendering philosophy: A symposium
Symposium
The ANU Gender Institute, the Moral, Social and Political Theory Centre and the Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Initiative in the School of Philosophy, RSSS present: Gendering Philosophy – a Symposium The ARC project “Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences” examines the forms gendered…