Past events
Seminar Series | Scott Benefield & Andrea Spencer
Art forum
A Practice in Parallel Scott Benefield and Andrea Spencer live on the north coast of Ireland on a remote farm property, pursuing careers as artists using glass as their primary medium of expression, but retaining distinct identities and following divergent paths in their practices. Andrea’s work…
Sharing Stories Arts Exchange 2025
Arts & entertainment
Sharing Stories Arts Exchange 2025 Public Information Session The Sharing Stories Arts Exchange (SSAE) is a creative participatory project focused on building positive reciprocal relationships between the Canberra community and local regional Indigenous and non-indigenous communities. …
Religious exemptions as public pedagogies of homophobia
Seminar
The concept of public pedagogy (Sandlin et al. 2010) explores how societal norms are conveyed outside formal education. This framework helps to understand how religious exemptions to discrimination laws in Australian schools function as a means of teaching homophobia. Religious exemptions allow…
Deep time in settler-colonial presents
Seminar
Deep time in settler-colonial presentsOver the course of the twentieth century, scholars have found different ways of reading ‘Aboriginal Dreaming’ stories as historical accounts of events in Australia’s ‘deep time’. Dr Laura Rademaker, from the ANU School of History, suggests that, when analysed…
Health and function, or what if I want to open the black box?
Seminar
The concept of health resides in a space bounded by two other concepts. On one side, there is the terrain contested by the concepts of health and disease. While there is controversy regarding where and how to draw the boundary between health and disease, very few theorists deny that such a boundary…
Carrots and Sticks
Seminar
How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in EuropePolitical parties often adjust their policy agendas in response to changing electoral landscapes, balancing the need to appeal to new voters against the importance of retaining loyal supporters. While these…
Roundtable discussion: The End of Deep History? Where have we been and where to now?
Seminar
This Roundtable brings together key researchers who shaped the seven-year ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Program ‘Rediscovering the Deep Human Past: Global Networks, Future Opportunities’ at the Research Centre for Deep History led by Professor Ann McGrath AM. Defying our interest in critiquing…