Environmental Exchanges Seminar: Ruth Morgan
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 'climate'. All seminars will be held both in person, and online (Zoom links will be provided via Eventbrite closer to the…
Bridging the Languages of the Biophysical and the Social in Expert Advice on Sustainability: Reflections on the International Resource Panel
Seminar
Across the environmental turn in the social sciences, many compelling arguments have been put forward on the need to understand and act on planetary crises in ways that connect social, institutional and biophysical matters. In the science/policy world of organised expert advice to governments and…
CANCELLED - Is Queer an Interpretive Method? (Cai Wilkinson)
Seminar
This seminar has been cancelled. Cai Wilkinson is an Associate Professor in International Relations, Deakin University. Cai's research focuses on societal security in the post-Soviet space, with a particular focus on LGBTQ human rights and “traditional values” in Kyrgyzstan and Russia, as well as…
Truth in an age of irony - Regina Rini (York)
Seminar
Speaker: Regina Rini The online alt right is famous for its use of irony. Practitioners use fake-out goofy humor to openly encode violent messages and then refuse to be pinned down committing to their extreme ideas. But ironic detachment didn’t start on the political far right. It…
Deliberative Reason: What should deliberation do? How is it achieved?
Seminar
This paper describes what deliberative ideals look like and how they can be achieved in practice, demonstrating how citizens can effectively deliberate together when the conditions are right. A theory of deliberative reason is outlined, involving the formation of metaconsensus, or mutual…
Song, Swing and The Struggle: First Australian Musicians and Political Protest Movements, 1920s-1980s
Seminar
From the 1920s to the 1980s, the adaption and performance of African American music genres and Native American repertoire by First Australian musicians was highly audible and highly organised. Jazz gum-leaf bands and vaudeville troupes toured around the Murray River as well as up and down the coast…
May 10 - TBC
Seminar
Speaker TBC 12–1PM 10 MAY 2023 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the Philsoc-l mailing list, which you can subscribe to here.