CASS Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series

This series celebrates and welcomes Professorial appointments to the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.

Our professoriate are exemplified by their research excellence and outstanding leadership. Newly appointed and promoted professors celebrate this milestone by presenting their research to the college allowing opportunities for interdisciplinary engagement.

For information on the Professorial Lecture Series, please contact Meg Sawtell.

 

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Past Events

06
Sep
2017

Effective communication in hospitals: applying discourse analysis to improve clinical handover interactions.

Professor Diana Slade

Effective communication in hospitals: applying discourse analysis to improve clinical handover interactions. Clinical handover – the transfer between clinicians of responsibility and accountability for patients and their care – is a pivotal, high-risk communicative event in hospital practice.…

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09
Aug
2017

The emergence of complex behaviour: Examples from ancient Southeast Asia

Professor Marc Oxenham, School of Archaeology and Anthropology

This presentation explores the evidence for the emergence of complex behaviour in the past, using Southeast Asia as an illustrative example. I ask what defines complexity in an archaeological sense and discuss this in terms of evidence for major archaeologically visible changes in human behaviour…

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10
May
2017

Is Australian History Still Possible? Australia and the Global Eighties

Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU School of History

Presented by the College of Arts and Social Sciences Is it still possible to write a history of a nation-state in an age of globalisation? The lecture will explore this question by setting Australia's experience of the 1980s in comparative, transnational and global frames. How might we…

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