Past events
Jack Smart Lecture 2016: Cognition as a Social Skill
Lecture
Most contemporary social epistemology takes as its starting point individuals with sophisticated propositional attitudes and considers (i) how those individuals depend on each other to gain (or lose) knowledge through testimony, disagreement, and the like and (ii) if, in addition to individual…
L’italiano in musica: an interdisciplinary study in semantics, musicology and emotions
Seminar
Tempo rubato in Chopin, Nocturne Op.6. This seminar forms part of the monthly cross-campus 'Emotions in Research' series. Gian Marco Farese's interdisciplinary research draws on cutting edge methodologies and theories from the fields of…
Book launch: The Art of Time Travel by Tom Griffiths
Book launch
I'm delighted to invite you to the launch of Tom Griffiths new book, The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft on Tuesday 26 July at the University House Drawing Room at 5.00 pm for a 5.30 pm start. Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno has kindly agreed to launch the book.
Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell - Intellectuals and Universities in Neoliberal Times
Lecture
The ANU School of Sociology presents: Intellectuals and Universities in Neoliberal TimesProfessor Emerita Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney) Intellectuals are classically imagined as heroic individuals, smoking Gauloises in dingy cafes on the Left Bank; in reality intellectual labour,…
The socioecology of Cat Ba Langurs (Trachypithecus poliocephalus)
Seminar
Cat Ba langurs are a Critically Endangered Asian colobine endemic to Cat Ba Island, northeastern Vietnam. There are less than 75 Cat Ba langurs globally, which has placed this species on the Top 25 Most Endangered Primates list since 2000. They are restricted to limestone karst hill habitat, which…
jUNCTURE
Exhibition
Duration: Monday, July 11, 2016 - 12:00 - Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 05:00 Location: Foyer Gallery ANU School of Art Floor talk on Thursday 21 July, at 1.15 - 2pm. The paintings and drawings assembled in this exhibition, constitute the majority of my work from the first two years of my PhD…
The Federalization of Immigration in Canada
Lecture
The Australian Centre for Federalism presents: The Federalization of Immigration in Canada Public lecture by Mireille Paquet, Ph.D. In Canada, immigration is a concurrent jurisdiction according to the Constitution. Since 1867 and despite formal powers, subnational governments have resisted…