Workshop: Foundations of Computation
Workshop
The ANU School of Philosophy will be hosting a workshop on the Foundations of Computation on 20 and 21 July, 2023. This two-day workshop will explore questions about what makes something a computation, whether computational identity depends on the intentions of interpreters, the role of…
Convict Lives: Biography in a Digital Age Symposium
Symposium
Australia’s convicts are the subject of enduring fascination. Their lives, among the best documented of people of their class in history, have piqued the interest of academic, local and family historians alike for generations. How we research and understand these lives is undergoing a profound…
Is language still the ultimate artefact? - Zoe Drayson
Seminar
Speaker: Zoe Drayson Clark and Chalmers (1998) characterize language as “a central means by which cognitive processes are extended into the world”. Language plays this role in virtue of being an external tool which supplements the brain’s…
Learning on Country, talking about an educational movement
Seminar
Recording available here Overview: In this seminar, Associate Professor Bill Fogarty will be in conversation with Professor Valerie Cooms discussing the highly successful Learning on Country Program running in the Northern Territory. The seminar will cover the program's history, the role…
Racial Disparities in Infant Outcomes: Insights from, and for, Formal Demography
Seminar
Formal demographic models are useful to describe and compare populations through time and space. But these models are evolving over time, as we gain new insights from population processes. In this talk, I demonstrate how formal demographic methods help to study racial disparities in infant outcomes…
TBC - Barabra Vetter
Seminar
Speaker: Barabra Vetter Abstract TBC. Please note that these seminars are open to the public and in person only.
The Forgotten Menzies: The World Picture of Australia’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister
Seminar
Abstract TBA about a week prior to the seminar.