Past events
Emeritus Faculty Annual Lecture 2016 - Understanding the Value of Arts and Culture
Lecture/seminar
Professor Crossick is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Cultural Value Project and author, with Patrycja Kaszynska, of the major 2016 Report: Understanding the Value of Arts & Culture. This report highlights the diverse contexts of the value of culture and how the digital…
Emeritus Faculty Annual Lecture - Understanding the value of arts and culture
Lecture
Crossick asks “How should we understand the difference that arts and culture makes to individuals and to society? The case is too often presented in terms of benefits that are thought to be important to the government of the day while neglecting some of the more fundamental benefits that matter to…
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…