Past events
A Conversation with Professor Roger Burrows
Seminar
Professor Roger Burrows is a prominent and highly regarded British sociologist with varied interests in: the impact of unsustainable home ownership on children, families and health; residential mobility in the social rented sector; the geodemographics industry and the social implications of geo-…
How do the world’s Indigenous communities use law, culture and collective action to reduce alcohol-related harm?
Seminar
Public health laws in areas such as alcohol and tobacco control, road safety and infectious disease control exemplify some of the biggest success stories in disease and injury prevention. However, in spite of the effectiveness of unilateral government alcohol regulation in the general population…
Women in the Creative Arts
Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS “Women in the Creative Arts”10-12 August 2017Australian National University The School of Music at the Australian National University, is pleased to announce a call for papers and submissions for an innovative research conference on “Women in the Creative Arts” to be held at the…
2017 ANU/Lions Oratory Competition (entry deadline)
Other
Can you talk your way to some great fantastic prizes? Participate in the 2017 Lions Oratory Competition and pit your oratory skills against fellow undergraduate students in the public speaking arena. What is the Lions Oratory Competition? Lions Club Woden…
Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences Launch: Animal Bodies and Animal Minds
Lecture
The brains, and hence minds, of animals evolved to complement their bodies. The diversity of those bodies, and their histories, tell us something about the nature and origins of the mind. This lecture will discuss a range of cases, with special attention to the octopus. Peter Godfrey-Smith grew…
The emergence of complex behaviour: Examples from ancient Southeast Asia
Lecture
This presentation explores the evidence for the emergence of complex behaviour in the past, using Southeast Asia as an illustrative example. I ask what defines complexity in an archaeological sense and discuss this in terms of evidence for major archaeologically visible changes in human behaviour…
Facts alone are not enough
Seminar
Why is it that people smoke, infant formula is readily available, eleven million hens producing eggs live in battery cages and cattle and sheep are exported for slaughter overseas? The evidence of the harm or suffering in each area is overwhelming. While evidence must be the foundation of…