Upcoming events
ANU Open Day: Explore Studying Bachelor of Arts – 29 March 2025
ANU Open Day: Explore Studying International Relations – 29 March 2025
ANU Open Day: Student & Alumni Panel - 29 March 2025
ANU Open Day 2025
Activity
Tomorrow’s innovators, welcome to ANU Open Day on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. This is your place – start making your mark. Explore your humanities, arts and social sciences opportunities at ANU.Open Day is a chance to picture yourself studying and living here in 2025. This is your day to soak up…
Higher Degree by Research Candidates
Gallery
More exhibition information coming soon. Join our mailing list to stay informed! The School of Art & Design supports Higher Degrees by Research (MPhil and PhD) across Visual Arts, Design, and Art History and Curatorial Studies. The School’s HDR offerings are part of programs offered by…
Soil Breathes | Sophia Cole
Gallery
You are invited to commune with the local soils. These artworks were all made in collaboration with the soils I steward at Wamboin, a short drive from here. Myself and my workshop participants have used scientific tools as tools of soil communion and intimacy. We have used microscopes and…
How Cases Speak to One Another: Using Translation to Rethink Generalization in Political Science Research (Nicholas Rush Smith, CUNY)
Seminar
Regardless of method, political scientists often seek to develop arguments that can be generalized to a population of cases. But is this the only way to think about how cases speak to one another? We advocate for a new way to think about how qualitative research produces broadly applicable…
Out of Harm’s Way: How Australian Music Venues and DIY Events Make Safe Spaces (Emma Crocker, ANU)
Seminar
Australian music venues, bars, and DIY (do-it-yourself) music events post ‘safe space’ policies to walls, Instagram pages, and bathroom doors. These policies invite event attendees to think of themselves as being within a distinct safe space. What differentiates these spaces from other venues is…
Historical ethnography and the study of elites (Rod Rhodes, Southampton)
Seminar
In principle, it is possible to observe British elites in action, but such access is rare. Therefore, Rhodes’s study of court politics is not ethnographic in the conventional sense as it does not rely on participant observation or deep immersion. However, it still seeks to understand the webs of…
Conceptualising a case, casing a concept? Two faces of global citizenship (April Biccum, ANU)
Seminar
This talk addresses the insights to be gained through a comparison of the use of a politically constitutive concept that delineates unlike but connected ‘cases’ of a concept-in-use. Global Citizenship is a concept with increasing currency. The talk compares two different but connected ways in which…