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Murrudha: Sovereign walks - tracking cultural actions through art, Country, language, and music - Track #14
Gallery
Murrudha: Sovereign Walks – Track #14 is the fourteenth outcome associated with the ANU Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge project "Murrudha: Sovereign Walks – tracking cultural actions through art, Country, language and music".Murrudha: Sovereign Walks – Track #14 has been led…
Biography as Justice: Recasting Cultural Legacies of Harm
Seminar
Content warning: This talk will reference experiences of childhood sexual abuse, framed by the voices and stories of survivors.This paper considers questions from a forthcoming biography of Dorothy Hewett that explore not just how her legacy can be reconsidered in the light of revelations about…
'Each book, in a word, carries a history': New Insights from First Fleet Association Copies
Lecture/seminar
The First Fleet sailed from England on 13 May 1787, carrying more than 1,500 people. What books they read, owned or carried with them remains a subject of great historical and research value for understanding Early European settlement in Australia. This paper examines surviving books of First Fleet…
Jack Smart Lecture: 'When may I burden myself?'
Lecture
AbstractThere are cases in which both prudential rationality and morality allow you to burden yourself in some way at one time in order to secure something you value at another time. And there are cases in which prudential rationality and morality both prohibit doing this. But I will argue that…
Criminality and Femininity: Undoing the Paradox
Lecture/seminar
Women involved in violent crime, both perpetrators and victims, are often vulnerable to forms of representation that distort or overwrite their experiences. Their identities can be reduced to sexist stereotypes, while their bodies are displaced, manipulated and represented in ways that reinforce…
Credit as care and financial frontier. An ethnography of predatory inclusion under Brazil’s ‘fintech revolution’
Lecture/seminar
In Brazil, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a rise in poverty and accelerated the already ignited ‘fintech revolution,’ pushing a policy agenda of financial inclusion that has been transforming Brazilian society for more than a decade. In the aftermath of the pandemic, indebtedness was at a record…
Calling All Historians! 2027 - History Honours Info Session
Other
Do you wish to undertake independent research in history with some of Australia’s finest scholars? Do you wish to learn how to blitz through dense texts and compose flowing, argumentative prose? Want to improve your presentation and speaking skills, as well as enhance your critical thinking? …