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31
Jul
2025

Searching for Harold Holt

Seminar

My interest in Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia, began in my childhood. I understood little about his politics but I was charmed by his smile and personality. After he died in December 1967, I had an intimation that he would somehow play a part in my life. And so it proved to be when I…

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04
Aug
2025

Love Across Class

Seminar

What does it mean to partner across class difference? Based on 38 in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural backgrounds, the 2024 book Love Across Class brings to life the role of class in shaping people’s childhoods, as well as the adult lives cross-class couples have…

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07
Aug
2025

Logic for Virtual Worlds

Seminar

In the second half of "Two Dogmas", Quine argued that there could be empirical grounds to revise logic---at least in principle. Since then, the most (though still not very) popular proposal for what those empirical grounds might actually be has involved quantum mechanics. Still, most logicians…

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18
Aug
2025

Urban ecology: Biodiversity at home, in the neighbourhood and community

Lecture/seminar

Urban ecology is often thought of as a human-nature relationship occurring in the urban setting: Mostly in city parks, botanic gardens and nature reserves, surrounded by a built environment. In this seminar, Dr Peerson will discuss other ways of viewing urban ecology. By considering diverse…

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19
Aug
2025

In Conversation with Sita Sargeant

Book launch

A collaboration between the National Centre of Biography and Harry Hartog (ANU)Founder of tour company She Shapes History Sita Sargeant will be in conversation with Michelle Staff about her latest book She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Stories About Great Australian Women (Hardie Grant, 2025),…

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