The biopedagogies of sugar - public lecture by Professor Karen Throsby
Lecture
Join us for a public lecture by Professor Karen Throsby, RSSS Visiting Fellow in Sociology, titled "The Biopedagogies of Sugar: Self-Knowledge, Intervention, and the Fantasy of Liberation." In the second decade of the 21st century, sugar supplanted dietary fat as the dietary enemy du jour. In the…
'All my petty schemes': The Hong Kong diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855-56
Seminar
Chaloner Alabaster (later, Sir) became a Student Interpreter in the China Consular Service in 1855, aged 16. The Consular Service was established under the Treaty of Nanjing after the British victory in the First Opium War in 1843. Student Interpreters were the lowest rung on the ladder, but…
Writing Lives with Bernadette Brennan
Workshop
A Canberra Writers Festival event sponsored by the National Centre of Biography. For a biography to sing it needs to be written with energy and passion. The biographer, driven by curiosity and the desire to understand what makes their subject tick, or in Helen Vendler’s words, ‘the inner dynamic…
Before Islamic Finance: Muslim Banking in South Asia and the World, 1880-1975
Webinar/Online
In this webinar event, Dr Mike O'Sullivan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) examines the varieties of, and challenges to, Muslim private banking in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. It studies this phenomenon against the backdrop of two processes: The first, are the…
2024 Robin-Griffiths Lecture: Kinship by Professor Sandra Swart
Lecture
The ANU Centre for Environmental History is pleased to announce that Professor Sandra Swart will present the 2024 Robin-Griffiths Environmental History Lecture. This lecture honours the Centre's founders, Emeritus Professors Libby Robin and Tom Griffiths, who have generously fostered the field of…
2nd Robin-Griffiths Environmental History Lecture: Prof. Sandra Swart
Lecture
Kinship: How to live in a more-than-human worldThis event has passed, but you can find a summary here.Our earliest roads were elephant paths. Even today, in Africa's most impenetrable undergrowth, it is the trails maintained by elephants that enable human mobility. Hacking back the overgrowth of…
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia
Seminar
Ethel May (Monte) Punshon’s 106-year life spanned crucial events in modern Australian history. Born in 1882, she witnessed Melbourne’s 1888 Centennial Exhibition, Federation, two great depressions and two world wars. She lived to see the demise of the White Australia policy and the social…