How to get published: Journals, books and blogs
Workshop
How to get published is one of the greatest challenges facing early career academics. Which thesis chapters would make for the best articles? Is it better to go for lots of articles or is there a value in publishing a book? Which journals and presses are most feasible, and which have the best…
Group pleasures: collaborative commitments, shared narrative, and the social life of fun
Lecture
Professor Gary FineDepartment of Sociology, Northwestern University, USAAs a consequence of their size and fragility, small groups depend on cohesion. Central to group continuation are occasions of collective pleasure that encourage attachment. These times are popularly labelled “fun.” While…
Fighting Words
Workshop
Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been…
RSSS Public Lecture Series: Adverse Events - On bad affects and the antidepressant wars
Lecture
In this lecture Professor Wilson will address the issue of psychopharmaceuticals, harm and adverse effects. The lecture will begin by considering the arguments against anti-depressant medications developed by a loose alliance of critics (feminists, anti-psychiatry activists, clinicians) who…
Pauline Griffin Building - share your recollections
Activity
Come join us at a forum in the China in the World Auditorium to hear from Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ANU Deupty Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Paul Pickering, Dean of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, and to share your recollections of the Pauline Griffin Building, its…
New RSSS Building information session
Activity
Come join us in the China in the World Auditorium for an information session by the architects, HASSELL, about the design principles that went into their plans for the new RSSS building.
Stephen Harper, Open Federalism and the Future of Canada?
Activity
The Australian Centre for Federalism (School of Politics and International Relations) in collaboration with the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (Crawford School of Public Policy), ANU present: Stephen Harper, Open Federalism and the Future of Canada? Academic lecture by Prof. Daniel Beland…