Past events
Climate and human evolution: past, present and future
Seminar
The evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere can be traced from about ~3.8 billion years [Ga], through natural cataclysms, all the way to the Anthropocene—a geological era triggered by a mammal species which uniquely learnt to master ignition and split the atom. The histories of the…
Earle Page, 1890–1961; ‘Now is the Psychological Moment …’
Seminar
Stephen Wilks will talk about his researches into the remarkable but little studied Earle Christmas Grafton Page – Country Party leader, Treasurer, Prime Minister and perhaps the most extraordinary visionary to hold high public office in the Australian Commonwealth. Page’s incessant activism in…
Jack Smart Lecture 2016: Cognition as a Social Skill
Lecture
Most contemporary social epistemology takes as its starting point individuals with sophisticated propositional attitudes and considers (i) how those individuals depend on each other to gain (or lose) knowledge through testimony, disagreement, and the like and (ii) if, in addition to individual…
2016 Jack Smart Lecture: Cognition as a social skill
Lecture
The ANU School of Philosophy proudly presents the 2016 Jack Smart Memorial Lecture by Professor Sally Haslanger, MIT Most contemporary social epistemology takes as its starting point individuals with sophisticated propositional attitudes and considers (i) how those individuals depend on…
L’italiano in musica: an interdisciplinary study in semantics, musicology and emotions
Seminar
Tempo rubato in Chopin, Nocturne Op.6. This seminar forms part of the monthly cross-campus 'Emotions in Research' series. Gian Marco Farese's interdisciplinary research draws on cutting edge methodologies and theories from the fields of…
Book launch: The Art of Time Travel by Tom Griffiths
Book launch
I'm delighted to invite you to the launch of Tom Griffiths new book, The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft on Tuesday 26 July at the University House Drawing Room at 5.00 pm for a 5.30 pm start. Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno has kindly agreed to launch the book.
Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell - Intellectuals and Universities in Neoliberal Times
Lecture
The ANU School of Sociology presents: Intellectuals and Universities in Neoliberal TimesProfessor Emerita Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney) Intellectuals are classically imagined as heroic individuals, smoking Gauloises in dingy cafes on the Left Bank; in reality intellectual labour,…