The Many Faces of Mary Booth
Lecture/seminar
Mary Booth was a woman of startling contradictions – one of Australia’s first female doctors, a pioneering feminist and nationalist. She was also a devoted imperial loyalist, an antiquarian, and an entrepreneur. She championed infant welfare, war commemoration, environmental reform, and the place…
Mary Booth: The Woman Who Shaped the Anzac Legend, by Rae Frances and Bruce Scates
Book launch
Join Rae Frances and Bruce Scates in conversation with the National Centre of Biography's Michelle Staff as they discuss their latest jointly written book Mary Booth: The Woman Who Shaped the Anzac Legend (Miegunyah, 2026).Drawing on newly uncovered personal correspondence, the authors delve into…
Rethinking Fertility Ideals: Gender, Mental Health, and Psychological Configurations Across Contexts
Seminar
In many low-fertility societies, fertility debates increasingly centre on gender equality, yet research has produced inconsistent findings on how gender relates to fertility ideals and intentions. Mental health has also become a growing concern and is itself shaped by gender, but it has rarely been…
Making Do: Conservation ethics and ecological care in Australia
Lecture/seminar
Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland is a region renowned for its environmental and cultural values. Like other biodiverse regions in the world, Cape York sits at the nexus of important political struggles, as well as social, cultural, and environmental changes. Despite the very human role…
Between Natural Law and Positive Law: On Han Fei Zi’s “Thin Version” of the Rule of Law
Seminar
The Chinese Legalists are often condemned as defenders of despotism. But obviously, this school has the term “fa” in its name, although “fa” has a broader scope than law in the Western tradition. In the narrow sense of this term, which means “law,” the critics claim that Legalism embraces “rule by…
Ambition Without Revolution: The Global South Emerging Power’s Pursuit of Influence Inside the Liberal International Order (LIO)
Lecture/seminar
This presentation aims to investigate the motivation-behaviour-outcome dynamics of the Global South emerging powers’ approach toward the Liberal International Order (LIO). The rise of the Global South has a different connotational affiliation, such as ‘Rise of the Rest’ or ‘Revisionism’. Lately,…
Freedom-Seeking: The Global Life and Journeys of Black Ohio Abolitionist John Hatfield
Lecture/seminar
This paper discusses the dynamic and complex transnational linkages among mid-nineteenth-century African American midwesterners, Canada, Australia, and the Atlantic and Pacific worlds, through the global life and journeys of John Hatfield of Cincinnati, Ohio, an internationally prominent…