The Role of First Nations Portfolio and its Work
Seminar
Abstract The First Nations Portfolio was established in 2020 to secure a whole-of-university approach to First Nations issues through mobilising the intellectual resources from its Colleges, Schools, Departments, and Institutes. At a time of unprecedented national attention about Indigenous…
Remembering the Dead: book launch, panel discussion and poetry
Book launch
The ANU Centre for European Studies is pleased to invite you to “Remembering the Dead”, a book launch and a conversation on topics we rarely discuss: death, grief, absence and different ways of remembering people, places and things we have lost. Date: 31 October – All Saints Eve (All Hallows Eve…
Health Capacity to Work among Older People in the Kingdom of Thailand
Seminar
Thailand’s aging population has impacted its labor force. This study examines additional health capacity to work (AHCW) with established methods. Data were obtained from the mortality registry, national health, aging, labor force, and welfare surveys. The estimated AHCW for those aged 50 to 69…
TPR Presentation Day
Workshop
The TPR Presentation Day is an annual event in the School of History for the first year HDR student presentations of their thesis proposals. Panel members should attend their students' sessions, but all members of the School of History are strongly encouraged to support these students at this…
Piracy, Punishment, and Structural Hermeneutics (Matt Norton, University of Oregon)
Seminar
Hermeneutics is one of the wellsprings of interpretive methods in contemporary social science. The space between biblical interpretation and the interpretation of social life, though, opens wide opportunities and demands for creative developments and elaborations to make hermeneutics a compelling…
Workshop: Migrant life narratives as place-making in post-colonial Australia
Workshop
There is an increasing interest and need to assess the potential of migrant narratives to expand our understanding of contemporary post-colonial Australia, particularly in the context of ongoing public debates concerning “the cleavage between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples” (Curthoys) and…
The Puzzle of Musical Repetition - Jenny Judge
Seminar
Speaker: Jenny Judge Take any piece of music, from any genre you like: pop, classical, jazz, bluegrass, shoegaze, grunge, death metal. Odds are, that piece will be saturated with repetition at every level, from the micro to the macro. Melodies are often stated only to be immediately…