Past events
An Everyday Militarisms Anzac Day Walk & Picnic
Workshop
What exactly do we eat when we eat a biscuit? Join us on Anzac Day for a potluck picnic and taste workshop. We will walk along the new 3km trail commencing at Gubbuh Gubbuh (Middle Head) on unceded Borogegal land (Sydney), NSW. Ship biscuits and Anzac biscuits will be supplied for…
Transitions in individuality and mesoscale structure
Seminar
In some ways, questions concerning individuality and evolutionary transitions in individuality appear to be uniquely biological. However, many of the underlying concerns regarding the enduring status of collectives and the emergence of higher-level individuals can also be found in other contexts —…
Watering the Forest: Beyond hydraulic developmentalism in the Murray Darling Basin
Seminar
In the early 1980s a new danger faced the Barmah-Millewa Forest, just upstream of Echuca on the border of Victoria and New South Wales. Bordering an 80-kilometre narrow stretch of the Murray River, this forest of river red gums and moira grass had endured decades of unseasonal water flows on…
Research Seminar: Dr Le-Tuyen Nguyen
Seminar
The first Western score of Tài tử music: historical contexts, interpretation, and hypothesis Abstract Tài tử music emerged in Southern Vietnam during the nineteenth century. The first Tài tử music performance in the West was part of the theatrical production La Bague Enchantée…
Philippine Demographic Transitions and the Emerging Challenge of Population Ageing
Seminar
This presentation consists of two parts. The first part provides an overview of the Philippines’ demographic transitions, tracing historical trends in fertility, mortality, and migration. The second part focuses on the emerging issue of population ageing, drawing on findings from the Longitudinal…
Seminar Series｜Rebecca Edwards
Seminar
Anne Dangar at the National Gallery of Australia Anne Dangar (1885–1951) occupies a unique position in art history as one of Australia’s most important, yet underacknowledged modern artists. Almost a century ago in 1930, she moved permanently to the artist colony Moly-Sabata in France, established…
Young Wittgenstein and Russell’s multiple relation theory of judgement
Seminar
In June 1913, Bertrand Russell abandoned writing a book (partly published in 1984 under the title Theory of Knowledge), apparently because of a “paralysing” objection made to him by the 24-year-old Ludwig Wittgenstein, then a research student at Cambridge. Wittgenstein’s objection was directed…