Past events
In Conversation with Kerrie Davies at Harry Hartog
Book launch
This event is hosted by Harry Hartog ANU in conjunction with the National Centre of Biography. On 14 July Dr Kerrie Davies will be in conversation with Dr Michelle Staff on Davies' new book, Miles Franklin Undercover: The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career (…
From Success to Setback: Understanding Uruguay’s Mortality during the COVID-19
Seminar
Despite sharing a border with Brazil—the country which turned Latin America into the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020—Uruguay initially stood out for its successful pandemic response. During the first year, the country maintained remarkably low mortality rates, even recording a…
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Gallery
A group exhibition featuring work by technical staff at the ANU School of Art & Design. Our technical staff are makers, artists and creatives. They are the quiet workforce behind our creative studios - who share their knowledge, ensure integrity of process and provide fundamental…
Correcting for Biases in Location Data from Mobile Phones to Estimate Mobility Flows
Seminar
Access to human mobility data is key for a wider variety of social challenges, including urban planning, sustainability, public health and economic development. Location trace data collected through digital technology, such as mobile applications, have become widely available to study human…
Reanimating Ayer's Significance Criterion
Seminar
The unmitigated failure of A. J. Ayer’s significance criterion in Language, Truth, and Logic reveals the fundamental folly of any attempt to formulate such a criterion. This is the familiar, critical appraisal of the historically contentious search for a precise litmus test that…
‘Reading biographies to overcome loneliness’: Reflections of an accidental biographer
Seminar
Frank Moorhouse (1938–2022) is best known as a writer of literary fiction. All of his fiction is connected, with his many books sharing characters and experiences, including across generations, and covering much of the 20th century: one of the most sustained feats of the imagination in Australia’s…
Why aren’t young South Koreans having babies?
Seminar
Despite the Korean government expending trillions of Korean won to introduce pronatalist policy initiatives since 2005, South Korea’s total fertility rate (TFR) remains the lowest in the world. Fertility scholars have long attributed factors such as precarious economic conditions, the surge of…