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What is ‘Net Zero’, anyway? A short history of a monumental concept
Written by Dr Ruth Morgan.Last month, the leaders of the G7 declared their commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. Closer to home, the Albanese government recently introduced legislation to establish a Net Zero Economy Authority, promising it will catalyse investment in…
2024 Sir William Dobell Chair and Fellows Announced
In 2023 the Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the ANU School of Art & Design established a new fellowship scheme to increase the impact of the Dobell endowment to support the research of art historians and curators at all stages of their careers. Each year one position known as the Sir…
RCDH Indigenous Family Research and Writing Skills Workshop
Last month, the Research Centre for Deep History welcomed a group of fourteen Indigenous women to the first RCDH Indigenous Family Research and Writing Skills Workshop. Following a highly competitive application process, fourteen participants were selected to travel to ANU from various places –…
Our efforts to prevent extreme violence aren’t working
Article by Associate Professor Emily Corner In the wake of an extreme violence event such as the deadly attack at Bondi Junction, perpetrators are usually described as being either politically motivated or having poor mental health with no ideological motivations. But this binary…
Caroline Schuster and Catherine Frieman Appointed Co-Editors
Congratulations to Dr Caroline Schuster and Dr Catherine J. Frieman who have been announced as the next co-editors of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press’ Current Anthropology. As of January 1, 2025, they will succeed Laurence Ralph, the journal’s current editor, who…
Supporting diversity through internships
The Australian National Internships Program (ANIP) was honoured to host Her Excellency the Ambassador of Uruguay, Dianela Pi and Her Excellency Wassane Zailachi, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco for the Women in Diplomacy Afternoon Tea. On 30 April more than twenty ANIP students and staff…
CASS researcher ranks among world’s top 5 linguists
Emerita Professor Anna Wierzbicka, from the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, has been named a ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar™ for her exceptional performance and prolific publication record in the field of linguistics and, more broadly, in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her…