Past events
Research roadshow on biography and memoir
Other
Held in association with the ANU Network on the History and Legacies of Violence, this event will explore themes of biography and memoir.
Book launch: Philanthropic Foundations in International Development Rockefeller, Ford and Gates
Book launch
This book focuses on the influence of philanthropic foundations in global development, and on how the global south has engaged with them. The idea of corporate philanthropy stretches back a long way, with the late 19th industrialist Andrew Carnegie seeing it as an important obligation of the very…
Listening to and from Palestine
Other
This panel will contextualise recent events in Palestine within a wider political, historical, and legal context. Panelists will highlight the implications and repercussions of what is happening across Palestine and the challenges they pose for peace and justice in the region.
Catalhoyuk and a new take on the origins of farming in the Middle East
Seminar
Professor Ian Hodder will describe recent results from Catalhoyuk, a Neolithic settlement in central Turkey. Professor Hodder has previously described the social organisation as involving a 'fierce egalitarianism' and will discuss new evidence that shows varying forms of…
Iraq at the crossroads: Reflections and prospects
Lecture
A massive anti-government protest movement started in October 2019 condemning rampant corruption, sectarian policies, an authoritarian government and dismal public services in Iraq. Mustafa al-Kadhimi was appointed as the new prime minister in May 2020 and his new coalition government, which…
Boys and Feminism
Seminar
Contemporary media discourse suggests that feminists exclusively understand boys and the experience of boyhood through such frameworks as “patriarchal privilege” and “toxic masculinity”. This lecture considers some important cultural and intellectual problems arising from these dominant ideas about…
Ceremonial Lives of the Nation
Webinar/Online
Co-hosted by the National Centre of Biography, ANU, ANU College of Law, and Menzies Australia Institute, King’s College London, in partnership with the ANU Australian Studies Institute. 7pm AEST / 10am BST About the webinar: Ceremony is an important and public aspect of our social and political…