Making religion legalistic and the law religious: Australia’s Marriage Act 1961
Seminar
Australia’s Marriage Act has had a role in the lives of many, if not most, Australians since its enactment in 1961. But how much is really known about its genesis? The passage of the Marriage Act marked the culmination of a slow and hesitant process by which Australia’s national government assumed…
The Art of Masculinities: Findings from the PhD Indigenising Masculinities
Seminar
This PhD Seminar will report on findings from the PhD Indigenising Masculinities. The project seeks to understand the identities of Indigenous men, formations of masculinities and how these relate to historical and contemporary forces that have shaped Indigenous experiences in Australia. …
Environmental Exchanges Seminar - Rohan Howitt
Seminar
This semester, the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges seminar series will include four fantastic papers from a diverse group of historians on the theme 'extraction'. All seminars will be held both in person, and online (Zoom links will be provided via Eventbrite closer to…
Call for EOI: Community Engagement: the Challenges of Research and Marginalised Groups
Workshop
We regret to inform that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are seeking expressions of interest from ANU academics and students to participate in the Masterclass with the Honorary Distinguished Professor Diana Rose on "Community engagement: the…
Call for EOI: How Does ‘Structural Violence’ Get Under the Skin?
Workshop
We regret to inform that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are seeking expressions of interest from ANU academics and students to participate in the Masterclass with the Distinguished Honorary Professor Nikolas Rose on "How does ‘structural violence’…
Is a Different Psychiatry Possible?
Conference
In this paper, Professors Diana and Nikolas Rose examine a number of approaches that propose new models for psychiatric theory and practices; in the way that they incorporate ‘social’ dimensions, in the way they involve ‘communities’ in treatment, in the ways that they engage mental health service…
Nature, Artifice, and Discovery in Descartes’ Mechanical Philosophy
Seminar
Speaker: Deborah Brown It is often assumed that in the early modern collapse of the Aristotelian distinction between art and nature, the collapse falls on the side of art. That is, all diversity among natures is simply the product of arrangements of matter that result blindly from…