Past events
Interested in shaping the future through Politics, Policy, Philosophy, Economics, Criminology, or International Relations?
Webinar/Online
Join us for an exclusive online webinar designed for Year 11–12 students interested in studying the Bachelor’s programs in International Relations, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Political Science, Public Policy, and Criminology at The Australian National University (ANU)! You’ll learn…
Techne and the Human Sciences in the 21st Century: Winter Institute Colloquium
Seminar
The Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) is pleased to invite ANU staff to a special colloquium at which this year’s attendees at the Winter Institute (U-Tokyo, 6-10 January 2025) will summarise their presentation topic from January and discuss how their ideas have developed as a result of…
Projecting Midwifery Workforce Demand in the ACT Using a Microsimulation Model
Seminar
The National Centre for Health Workforce Studies (NCHWS) is a new group within the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, the College of Law, Governance and Policy. We Marco and Tomoko will first briefly describe the mission of the NCHWS, who we are, and our approach to our work.…
Seminar Series | Anna Parlane
Seminar
Consigning Anarchistic Noise to the Prison-house: Slave Pianos in Historical Context In a purposefully misleading statement, the Melbourne-based art/music collective Slave Pianos (formed 1998 by Rohan Drape, Neil Kelly, Danius Kesminas, and Michael Stevenson) described themselves in 2000 as “a…
How Cases Speak to One Another: Using Translation to Rethink Generalization in Political Science Research (Nicholas Rush Smith, CUNY)
Seminar
Regardless of method, political scientists often seek to develop arguments that can be generalized to a population of cases. But is this the only way to think about how cases speak to one another? We advocate for a new way to think about how qualitative research produces broadly applicable…
Friends of the School of Music Ensemble Prize Finals 2025
Performance
The Friends of the School of Music established its ensemble prizes to promote ensemble playing in the tertiary student cohort, in all musical genres taught at the ANU School of Music. ‼️Venue Update for Tonight’s FoM Ensemble Prize Finals： New Venue:Athenaeum Ground Floor, ANU School of…
Work, Leisure, and the Sources of Meaning in Life
Seminar
Matthew begins with the question ‘what is work?’ Many argue that ‘work’ is a hopelessly indeterminate term that cannot be adequately defined. Against this view, he defends a novel account of what work is. Building on this, he then develops accounts of three other types of human activity that can be…