ANU School of Sociology x ANU Computational Culture Lab event: Dr Scott Wark (Goldsmiths University)
Lecture/seminar
Please join us for this ANU School of Sociology x ANU Computational Culture Lab event on 'The “Contentification” of the Web: Studying Digital Culture Before and After GenAI' by Dr Scott Wark (Goldsmiths, University of London). The “Contentification” of the Web: Studying Digital Culture Before…
Persuasion and resistance: A survey experiment on messaging for and against One Nation
Lecture/seminar
Since the May 2025 federal election, One Nation's primary vote has risen sharply across published polling. If an election were held today, it would likely be the second-largest bloc in the House of Representatives. What drives this surge — and what, if anything, suppresses it — remains contested,…
2026 Short course: Comparing Populations
Continuing education
In this 2-day course, we'll learn skills that help demographers, policymakers, and health and social researchers measure differences between populations, and techniques that allow valid comparisons to be made across populations with differing compositions.Populations can be compared in many ways,…
Middle East Update No.4: US/ Israel War on Iran The Long Road Ahead (in-person + online)
Panel discussion
As the US/Israel War on Iran enters into its third month, the regional and international orders are being reconfigured, and the global economic costs keep mounting. The gathered Panellists/Middle East scholars will offer critical insights and updates on the stances of key states and discuss…
'My study is an archive of my mind': The making of Greg Dening
Seminar
Pacific historian and anthropologist Professor Greg Dening (1931-2008) was a man of many silences. Trawling through the large Dening archive in the State Library of Victoria, I am struck by the silences, the gaps and the stories left untold. In one of Greg’s many metaphors, that of…
Beyond Sheilaspeak: Recovering the hidden histories of women and slang and colloquial language in Australia
Lecture/seminar
Women are notably absent from the national story of Australian English, as well as from the broader history of the use of language by Australians, including slang and colloquial language. The national narrative, especially when it comes to Australians’ use of language, has been largely a masculine…
Human Instruments: Sensory Science and the Exclusions of Perceptibility
Lecture/seminar
In this paper, Dr Ella Butler analyses how perceptibility is organised as a social process in a scientific experimental setting. Specifically, she details how an American sensory science lab conducts a form of test called descriptive analysis which aims to transduce the sensory experience of a…