Launch: Australian Journal of Biography and History, No. 2, 2019
Book launch
The National Centre of Biography, at the ANU, in association with the Canberra and District Historical Society warmly invites you to celebrate the publication of the Australian Journal of Biography and History: No. 2, 2019. The journal will be launched by the Hon. Arthur…
Australian Premier screening: 'The Witness' (El Testigo) and discussion with director Kate Horne
Arts & entertainment
The Witness tells the story of Jesús Abad Colorado, a renowned Colombian photojournalist. Abad Colorado has documented the country’s civil war for the last 30 years in more than 500 harrowing and stunning images where the victims take centre stage. In the film, he goes in search…
Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment: A Critical Feminist Arts/ Research Workshop Series
Workshop
In this workshop, we explore ways of practically extending critical and feminist social research with art – specifically photography, sociological fiction and zine making. These arts practices are valuable for opening up how we critically explore, analyse, collaborate on, and share experiences and…
Understanding the online "Manosphere" -- Simon Copland
Seminar
In April 2018 Alek Minassian sped a van through Toronto, Canada, killing ten and injuring sixteen others. Minassian belonged to an online community called ‘incels’ (involuntary celibates), comprised of men who blame women for their inability to gain sexual relationships. Incels speak disparagingly…
Dr Laura Clancy - The British Monarchy, Grenfell Tower, and social inequality in London
Seminar
The fire at Grenfell Tower, a block of public housing flats in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, in June 2017 has come to epitomise the growing divide between Britain’s rich and poor in the last decade. Yet, the proximity of Kensington Palace, home of many senior British royals,…
"Indigenous Reconciliation": a conversation between Mexico and Australia
Panel discussion
This year, Mexico will memorialize the 500 years of the arrival of Hernan Cortes to the coasts of what is now the territory of Mexico. Next year marks the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Captain James Cook aboard H.M. Bark Endeavour to Australia. Both anniversaries offer an excellent…
A Bayesian approach to applied demography
Seminar
Applied demographers face some difficult statistical problems. Users of demographic statistics are demanding estimates and forecasts with levels of detail that traditional demographic methods do not support. New data sources are appearing all the time, but most of the source are noisy, incomplete,…