Second Fleet Women: First-Rate Survivors
Lecture/seminar
In this pre-submission seminar, Nichola Garvey presents her thesis research on a group biographical study of the women transported on the Second Fleet vessel Neptune. It asks a deceptively simple question: how did these women survive? It examines survival on both the Neptune voyage,…
Fertility, mortality, life satisfaction: Research results waiting for follow-up
Seminar
This talk presents a taster of some findings that Marion Burkimsher has presented at conferences but not taken further. Topics include:Comparing expectations with the reality of childbearing; What the fertility curve can tell us about the processes affecting the TFR; Trends in birth intervals and…
Problematising Water: an experiment on the edges of interdisciplinarity
Lecture/seminar
Problematising water: an experiment on the edges of interdisciplinarity is a manifestation of thinking with water across a range of disciplines including urban geography, sociology, anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and ethnomethodology. In this presentation, Nicole Vitellone will…
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…
ANU School of Sociology Honours and PhD - Online Information Session
Information session
Are you interested in pursuing an Honours or PhD in sociology? Join us for this online information session from the ANU School of Sociology.The Honours and PhD programs offer candidates an opportunity to develop their independent research skills in their chosen field of study. In sociology, we…
Wonder upon Wonder
Seminar
Brandon Yip proposes a framework for wonder that accounts for its heterogeneity and explains and clarifies disputes about the ethics of wonder. The various species of wonder are unified as responses to a recurrent practical situation: that of recognising that our cognitive structures require…
Spying on a Spy: A Dutch Agent for the British, Marguerite Wolters, 1723–1800
Seminar
This workshop is on entirely new work for me, a biography of an unknown Dutch woman called Marguerite Wolters who headed a Europe-wide spy agency for nearly twenty years (1771–1790). She sold her intelligence exclusively to the British government, who used it to consolidate its rising superpower…