Past events
Making Under the Influence: Unpacking motives behind making - Day 2
Conference
This symposium will explore the nature of creative influence on studio-based making. Influence can be debated as inspiration, motivation, encouragement, imitation, homage, plagiarism and coincidence, but as all makers know we cannot help responding to our daily environment or to the broader…
Making Under the Influence: Unpacking motives behind making
Conference
Karlyn Sutherland, Light Study: Latheronwheel, Caithness (detail), 2015. Photograph: Michael Rogers. This symposium will explore the nature of creative influence on studio-based making. Influence can be debated as inspiration, motivation, encouragement, imitation, homage, plagiarism and…
Intergenerational inequality: are young Australians falling behind?
Lecture/seminar
Image by Pascal/Flickr In this seminar, Dr Jennifer Rayner will discuss her new Redback Quarterly book Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young (Black Inc, April, 2016), with Professor Peter Whiteford and Professor Bruce Chapman from the Crawford School of…
The future of the United Nations (and should ANU students want to work there?)
Lecture
Leanne Smith is an Australian diplomat and human rights lawyer who is the Chief of the Policy and Best Practice Service of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York. Leanne has worked in the Australian judicial system, for the Australian Human Rights Commission, in the…
Developing culturally relevant indicators of wellbeing: operationalising the recognition space - a Yawuru case study
Seminar
The tension between the aspirations and worldviews of indigenous peoples and government reporting frameworks on Indigenous wellbeing has been termed 'the recognition or translation space' (Taylor 2008). Building on Taylor's recognition space, Kukutai and Walter (2015) identify five recognition…
Conversations across the creek #2
Other
Sullivan's Creek flows through our national university, separating disciplines: sciences on one bank, humanities and social sciences on the other. Or so it would seem. Join us for the second Conversations, where four exciting scholars 'cross the creek', communicating their latest research to peers…
Islam and violent jihad: Western policy responses
Lecture/seminar
Presented by ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences and ANU College of Asia & the Pacific Emerging from the failure of certain states in the Middle East, such as Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, renewed authoritarian entrenchment after the disappointments of the Arab Spring…