Book Launch: Melanie Nolan, Biography: An Historiography
Book launch
Join us for canapés and drinks in the RSSS Foyer as Prof. Tom Griffiths launches Melanie Nolan’s Biography: an historiography (London and New York: Routledge, 2023).Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present –…
Book Launch: Melanie Nolan, Biography: An Historiography
Book launch
Join us for canapés and drinks in the RSSS Foyer as Prof. Tom Griffiths launches Melanie Nolan’s Biography: an historiography (London and New York: Routledge, 2023).Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present –…
Time for a Treaty - Are We Ready Yet?
Seminar
Recording available here Treaty in Australia is necessary. Our collective history of dispossession is built on racism, violence, massacres, and a lack of humanity held by colonisers towards First Nations’ sovereignty and personhood. A Treaty in Australia will go some way to responding to…
Why You Won’t Make the King’s Birthday Honours List
Seminar
Abstract TBC. Join Zoom meeting: https://anu.zoom.us/j/89587321433?pwd=MzhpUU1MRnRaNHovL0RTejJMeWpHUT09Meeting ID: 895 8732 1433 Password: 306745Join by Skype: https://anu.zoom.us/skype/89587321433
Book Discussion — Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Anastasia Shesterinina)
Seminar
Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the war in Abkhazia collected over eight months of immersive fieldwork, Mobilizing in Uncertainty (Cornell UP, 2021) explores how ordinary people navigate the uncertainty of the onset of war. In contrast to…
Surprise! Deliberation does not establish Evidentialism about Reasons for Belief - Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Seminar
Speaker: Eleanor Gordon-Smith In this paper I’m going to show how the moral and practical upshots of believing p could possibly weigh in deliberation about whether p, when at the moment it’s widely thought they can’t. Pragmatists and evidentialists alike have agreed that only…
The Mechanical Effects of Lowering the Voting Age to 16: Empirical Evidence from Around the World
Seminar
In Australia and a growing number of countries around the world, debates about democratic inclusion once more revolve around the minimum voting age. Countries such as Austria, Brazil, and Argentina have lowered the voting age to 16, while others, including Belgium, Norway, and Canada, have trialled…