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17
Aug
2016

Picturing Politics

Symposium

Picturing Politics presents recent research behind the production, dissemination and collection of activist graphics.   3 - 5pm Round Table Forum  With representatives from natural cultural institutions, private collectors and independent makers. Speakers include: Alison Alder, Carol…

16
Aug
2016

QRN Forum - Qualitative research at the margins: case studies of innovative methods

Lecture/seminar

The ANU Qualitative Research Network (QRN) proudly presents its second forum.   Forum Theme: Qualitative research at the margins: case studies of innovative methods   Our speakers:   Dr Naomi Priest (Centre for Social Research and Methods) Dr Naomi Priest is a Fellow at the Centre…

15
Aug
2016

Gendering philosophy: A symposium

Symposium

The ANU Gender Institute, the Moral, Social and Political Theory Centre and the Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Initiative in the School of Philosophy, RSSS present: Gendering Philosophy – a Symposium The ARC project “Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences” examines the forms gendered…

12
Aug
2016

Beside Balawan

Exhibition

Works by participants in the 2016 Environment Studio Balawan Elective Reception: 11 August 2016 6:00pm Duration: Friday, August 12, 2016 - 10:30 - Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 17:00 Location: School of Art Foyer Gallery To be opened by Mr John Blay The Bundian Way is an ancient shared history…

09
Aug
2016

Reading Across Borders - Spanish Crime Writer Víctor del Árbol

Lecture

Join us for a conversation with this award-winning author from Barcelona, followed by a Q&A. A public event in English from the Reading Across Borders public lecture series. Lilit Thwaites (La Trobe Univeristy) will lead the conversation with Víctor, and Consuelo Martínez Reyes (Australian…

05
Aug
2016

Ethnic statistics and racial politics in Britain from Enoch Powell to Big Data

Seminar

This paper explores how state statistics in Britain transformed migrants into ethnic categories during the 1960s and 1970s, and who these were powerfully shaped by a series of interventions by Enoch Powell that racialized the children of immigrants from the 'New Commonwealth'. The standardization…

04
Aug
2016

ANU/Canberra Times meet the author event with Ashleigh Wilson

Book launch

Ashleigh Wilson will be in conversation with Sasha Grishin on Wilson's new book, Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and The Other Thing. Written with unprecedented behind-the-scenes access, and handsomely illustrated with classic Whiteley artworks, rare notebook sketches and…