ANU Online Summer School in Political Analysis (SSPA) 2026

Flexible online training for tomorrow's world.Our short courses in research methods offer students and professionals a way to hone their research skills. If you need to begin research training for the first time, explore a new and cutting-edge method, or simply refresh your skills, we have courses…

Australia & Ireland: the closest of neighbours - Reflections on a shared political & legal ancestry

Lecture

The ANU Centre for European Studies (ANUCES) is delighted to invite you to a public lecture by Mr Rossa Fanning SC, Attorney-General of Ireland. The lecture will explore the similarities and differences between the systems of two countries that share strong ties and a common history.Mr Rossa…

The Sovereign Individual reloaded: surfacing Thiel’s alt-canon

Lecture/seminar

Peter Thiel’s ideological commitments, financial networks and political interventions reveal a deliberate effort to dismantle democratic governance in favour of elite-controlled sovereignties. Drawing on Girard, Spengler, Strauss and especially The Sovereign Individual (Davidson and Rees-Mogg…

A-lieving that ChatGPT loves you

Seminar

We increasingly form enduring and emotionally salient bonds with AI-powered technologies. Yet, arguably, most of the users don’t actually believe that these technologies harbour genuine affective (and more generally mental) states towards them. Why, then, do users bond with technologies? What…

Robert Randolph Garran: A Symposium

Symposium

This is a free one-day symposium on the lawyer and public servant, Robert Randolph Garran (1867-1957). Garran was a major figure in the making of the Commonwealth of Australia, the formation of the Commonwealth (now Australian) Public Service, the development of federal law and Australia's…