2nd Robin-Griffiths Environmental History Lecture: Prof. Sandra Swart
Lecture
Kinship: How to live in a more-than-human world Our earliest roads were elephant paths. Even today, in Africa's most impenetrable undergrowth, it is the trails maintained by elephants that enable human mobility. Hacking back the overgrowth of time and following one historical track, we find…
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia
Seminar
Ethel May (Monte) Punshon’s 106-year life spanned crucial events in modern Australian history. Born in 1882, she witnessed Melbourne’s 1888 Centennial Exhibition, Federation, two great depressions and two world wars. She lived to see the demise of the White Australia policy and the social…
Turning to the Sensed Unconscious
Seminar
Abstract: As we live our daily lives, our senses generally seem something that we “have,” not something that we “do.” But people learn that they have to develop sense abilities when they enter a wide variety of occupations and activities. This paper examines the techniques and strategies involved…
Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline (Tamir Moustafa, SFU)
Seminar
In this session, Tamir Moustafa will discuss his current research, which draws on the historical records of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to examine the political and administrative contexts that shaped the funding priorities…
Book Launch - Counterrevolution by Professor Melinda Cooper
Book launch
Join us for the launch and reception of Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution (Zone Books, 2024), in an interdisciplinary conversation with Aditya Balasubramanian, Will Bateman, and Ben Spies-Butcher. Neoliberalism is as extravagant as it is austere, and this paradox needs to be grasped if we are to…
Stolenwealth: Examining the expropriation of First Nations women’s unpaid care
Seminar
This article examines the intersections between coloniality and gender in the generation and maintenance of Australian wealth. Settler colonialism is ongoing in Australia and is intricately linked to wealth accumulation –where First Nations people’s labour, land and lives have been, and continue to…
Asia-Pacific Lives exhibition
Exhibition
In collaboration with the School of Culture, History & Language (CHL), the National Centre of Biography presents the free exhibition Asia-Pacific Lives as part of CHL's annual flagship multicultural festival and showcase program, Immersia. Drawing on the many volumes…