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…
‘A Continent That Australians Must be Proud to Advertise’: Nature, Tourism, and the National Image, 1905-1988
Lecture/seminar
Since Federation, national tourism advertising campaigns have carried messages about Australia, its scenery and its people around the world. Tourism advertising has also served an important function as a bellwether for how the world perceives the nation from the outside. A unifying…
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…