Past events
A Cinema of Environmental Crisis: Virtual Life in the Sixth Extinction
Seminar
The cinematic response to environmental crises of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been marked by a turn to digital visual effects technologies (VFX). Visual effects artists populate media with lifelike non-human animals, in cautionary tales about animals’ capacity for rapid adaptation…
Works That Shaped The World 2019: The Moon Landing with Prof. Brian Schmidt
Lecture
The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Centre present Works That Shaped The World; a series of talks exploring humankind's great achievements and astonishing creations. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969, the inaugural 2019 series explores the…
Conversations Across the Creek | Skullbook: A Digital Bone Library of Animal Skulls at the ANU
Seminar
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the aim of stimulating and…
Surveillance, Trust and Democracy - Professor David Lyon
Lecture
Surveillance practices, often suspicious or clandestine, contrast with trusting relationships. In the twenty-first century, surveillance has expanded and intensified into a very complex global phenomenon, involving major corporate activity as well as policing and national security. Data analytics…
Approaching children at Roonka through bioarchaeology
Seminar
The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on children in the past. Yet there have been few studies of hunter-gatherer children and very few focussed on pre-contact Aboriginal children. Children, however, have become one focus in our work of re-analysing Roonka, a mid to late Holocene…
Inaugural HRC Lecture in Gender Studies | The Indecent Screen: Prosecuting Indecency on US Television
Lecture
Dr Cynthia Chris will deliver the Humanities Research Centre's Inaugural Public Lecture in Gender Studies. In 2003, a jury in Michigan, convicted a performer on a local television show for indecent exposure. While the U.S. government has long sought to regulate indecency, profanity, and obscenity…
Beyond Fishing: the connection of Indigenous Torres Strait Islander women to solwata
Lecture
PUBLIC LECTURE While the knowledge and practices of Indigenous coastal and marine societies has attracted the attention of many scholars, the focus has tended to be on the contribution of men while the activities of women have either been overlooked or, at best, narrowly described. Drawing on more…