Fibro Modernity: Life and Death in an Asbestos Australia
Seminar
In the first few decades after World War II, Australia embraced asbestos as an essential ingredient of Post-War Reconstruction and suburban modernity. The legacy of this development is one of the highest rates of mesothelioma in the world and a lingering anxiety of our built environment. Since the…
Against Posthumanism
Conference
This workshop will involve an engagement with Professor Nikolas Rose’s recent publication, ‘Against Posthumanism: Notes Towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood’ (co-authored with Professor Thomas Osbourne). The paper, which will be circulated to invited participants prior to the event, challenges…
Indigenous Peoples, Critical Minerals and the ‘Just Transition’
Seminar
Recording available here Abstract The world’s need to transition to renewable energy will require enormous social, economic and political change, change which will be far from neutral in its distributional consequences. The term ‘Just Transition’ has been coined to describe a situation in which…
Towards Ecosocial Cities? Urban-Nature Encounters and Relations
Conference
We are now living in the age of expansive urbanisation, with estimates suggesting that nearly 60% of the world’s population – some 4.4 billion people – reside in cities (World Bank, 2023), with this trend only set to intensify over the coming decades (Rose and Fitzgerald, 2022). While cities…
Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research - A Conversation
Conference
We regret to inform that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Diana Rose and Michelle Banfield will be in discussion about Diana’s book Mad Knowledges and User Led Research (Palgrave, 2022) which combines theory, research and activism around 'madness' and…
Mapping China's Influence at the United Nations
Seminar
Research explains how powerful states exert influence when staffing the UN system, but how do emerging powers use international civil service contributions to influence multilateral institutions? We use the case of China to explore how emerging powers exerts influence. We focus on the 2010-2019…
The Fin de Siècle Imagination in Australia, 1890-1914, using biographical microhistories to explore this era
Seminar
Abstract TBA about a week prior to the seminar.