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Past conferences
11
Oct
2024
Historical ethnography and the study of elites
In principle, it is possible to observe British elites in action, but such access is rare. Therefore, Rhodes’s study of court politics is not ethnographic in...
03
Oct
2024
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia
Ethel May (Monte) Punshon’s 106-year life spanned crucial events in modern Australian history. Born in 1882, she witnessed Melbourne’s 1888 Centennial...
30
Sep
2024
Turning to the Sensed Unconscious
Abstract:
As we live our daily lives, our senses generally seem something that we “have,” not something that we “do.” But people learn that they have to...
27
Sep
2024
Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline - Tamir Moustafa
In this session, Tamir Moustafa will discuss his current research, which draws on the historical records of the American Political Science Association (APSA)...
26
Sep
2024
Book Launch - Counterrevolution by Professor Melinda Cooper
Join us for the launch and reception of Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution (Zone Books, 2024), in an interdisciplinary conversation with Aditya Balasubramanian...
23
Sep
2024
Stolenwealth: Examining the expropriation of First Nations women’s unpaid care
This article examines the intersections between coloniality and gender in the generation and maintenance of Australian wealth. Settler colonialism is ongoing...
23
Sep
2024
Asia-Pacific Lives exhibition
In collaboration with the School of Culture, History & Language (CHL), the National Centre of Biography presents the free exhibition Asia-Pacific Lives as...
