Past events
Women and violent extremism: myth and reality
Seminar
Presented by the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies and The Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs What prompts a young, educated woman brought up in the West to run away to join a fundamentalist society where the role of women is highly circumscribed? Until recently terrorism and…
Emeritus Faculty Annual Lecture - Understanding the value of arts and culture
Lecture
Crossick asks “How should we understand the difference that arts and culture makes to individuals and to society? The case is too often presented in terms of benefits that are thought to be important to the government of the day while neglecting some of the more fundamental benefits that matter to…
Launch of ANU Classics Museum app
Other
The ancient world meets the 21st century in the only app of its kind in Australia. The app, which gives an overview of a small selection of items from the ANU Classics Museum's superb collection, offers an excellent introduction to the museum as a whole. Details about the availability of the free…
Emeritus Faculty Annual Lecture 2016 - Understanding the Value of Arts and Culture
Lecture/seminar
Professor Crossick is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Cultural Value Project and author, with Patrycja Kaszynska, of the major 2016 Report: Understanding the Value of Arts & Culture. This report highlights the diverse contexts of the value of culture and how the digital…
Climate and human evolution: past, present and future
Seminar
The evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere can be traced from about ~3.8 billion years [Ga], through natural cataclysms, all the way to the Anthropocene—a geological era triggered by a mammal species which uniquely learnt to master ignition and split the atom. The histories of the…
Earle Page, 1890–1961; ‘Now is the Psychological Moment …’
Seminar
Stephen Wilks will talk about his researches into the remarkable but little studied Earle Christmas Grafton Page – Country Party leader, Treasurer, Prime Minister and perhaps the most extraordinary visionary to hold high public office in the Australian Commonwealth. Page’s incessant activism in…
2016 Jack Smart Lecture: Cognition as a social skill
Lecture
The ANU School of Philosophy proudly presents the 2016 Jack Smart Memorial Lecture by Professor Sally Haslanger, MIT Most contemporary social epistemology takes as its starting point individuals with sophisticated propositional attitudes and considers (i) how those individuals depend on…