Beyond the Fatal Shore: Former Convict Departures from the Australian Colonies
Lecture/seminar
Of the 168,000 convicts transported to Australia between 1788 and 1868, approximately five per cent—some 8,000—left the colonies. Prevailing accounts suggest that most convicts remained because Australia was attractive or because leaving was prohibitively costly. Given this, the thesis asks: What…
Book Launch. ‘The Chosen Race: Troubling Whiteness in Victorian Painting’ (University of California Press) by Keren Hammerschlag
Book launch
SpeakersProf Ari Heinrich (Director of the Gallery at the Australian Centre on China in the World), Dr Maddie Hewitson (University of Birmingham), and Dr Keren Hammerschlag (Director, Centre for Art History and Art Theory, ANU)About the Book From the Realist canvases of the Pre-…
Capturing and tracking population and health events in the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System: a demographic and geographic research platform in rural South Africa.
Seminar
Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance (HDSS) systems are a response to low levels of vital event registration in areas where data for health planning is critically scarce. HDSS aim to provide high quality longitudinal data on population dynamics of health and social transitions to inform policy…
Staging Social Change
Panel discussion
Theatre spaces as sites for transformative civic dialogueAt a time of increasing polarisation, how can we create better civic discourse? Could the theatre be a useful place for hard conversations? Historically and today, theatre serves as a rare space where people from different social,…
What kind of representationalism has a good chance of being true
Seminar
Representationalism about perceptual experience is conventional wisdom these days. Despite this, some version is likely true, but what version? Professor Frank Jackson discusses this question after a short reminder of why representationalism is so attractive. He ends by noting an issue for…
Clarity of Alternatives: How Perceived Party Policy Differences Shape Economic Voting
Lecture/seminar
Economic voting theory posits that voters reward or punish governments based on their economic performance. While clarity of responsibility has been shown to condition this relationship, less attention has been paid to how perceived policy differentiation between parties shapes it. Dr Thiago da…
Andrew Sayers Memorial Lecture with Robert Wellington
Artist talk
Australia is a nation that thrives on competition. We celebrate our champions with awards and accolades from the sporting stadium to the big screen. No field is immune from our desire for excellence, least of all the arts, where most galleries, big or small, draw attention to themselves and their…