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23
Jul
2025

Past and future histories of Gender and Colonialism: In celebration of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott

Lecture/seminar

Join us to celebrate the career of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott in this special event. This multi-generational panel of leading historians will consider why looking at gender and colonisation together has been especially productive, what it means to write ‘feminist’ history, and what’s…

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22
Jul
2025

Connecting the Dots: Ayahs and Empire in Australian Settler Society

Lecture

What can the stories of South Asian ayahs – nursemaids and domestic servants – tell us about the significance of race and women’s domestic labour in Australia’s settler colonial history – and why do these stories remain so elusive? In this talk, Victoria Haskins reflects on the obscure lives of…

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22
Jul
2025

2025 John Passmore Lecture with Professor Niko Kolodny

Lecture

Join us for the 2025 John Passmore Lecture by Professor Niko Kolodny on Two Concepts of Consent. Niko will explore how consent transforms moral duties and what conditions give it normative force. A compelling discussion on ethics, autonomy, and the power of permission.AbstractIn his exploration of…

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21
Jul
2025

Habit’s Pathways: Guiding Repetition, Governing Conduct, Contested Interruptions

Seminar

Drawing principally on the work of Michel Foucault, this paper considers how the relations between habit and repetition have been construed in the exercise of different forms of power: disciplinary, pastoral, governmental,and algorithmic, for example. It does so by reviewing a range of the…

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17
Jul
2025

Explanatory Realism

Lecture

The cement of the universe is not causation: it is explanatory dependence. Reality is a network of facts connected by a single, irreducible, mind-independent “because”. It is widely held that explanation is a sort, interest-sensitive practice that aims to provide information only about other things…

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14
Jul
2025

In Conversation with Kerrie Davies at Harry Hartog

Book launch

This event is hosted by Harry Hartog ANU in conjunction with the National Centre of BiographyOn 14 July Dr Kerrie Davies will be in conversation with Dr Michelle Staff on Davies' new book, Miles Franklin Undercover: The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career (Allen…

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26
Jun
2025

‘Reading biographies to overcome loneliness’: Reflections of an accidental biographer

Seminar

Frank Moorhouse (1938–2022) is best known as a writer of literary fiction. All of his fiction is connected, with his many books sharing characters and experiences, including across generations, and covering much of the 20th century: one of the most sustained feats of the imagination in Australia’s…

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