Masterclass: A poisoned well: Seeing Queenship through the Riddle of Ancient Sources
Lecture/seminar
Studying the intersection of queenship and gender is a delicate endeavour in any historical period, but especially so in the context of the Hellenistic world. Our source material for elite and royal women in the period is sporadic at best, much of it comes from centuries after the events described…
Freedom’s Frontier: Belarus and the Battle for Europe’s Future
Lecture
Lecture by Sviatlana TsikhanouskayaFreedom's Frontier: Belarus and the Battle for Europe's Future The ANU Centre for European Studies cordially invites you to a lecture and Q&A with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.In her lecture, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya will explore Belarusians’…
Queer Youth Histories
Book launch
How has growing up LGBTIQA+ changed over time?What experiences are common across the generations, and what’s different? How do we learn about people’s diverse queer youth histories and what is gained by learning about them?Come to hear about different people’s experiences, celebrate the launch…
Adrian Mackenzie and Anna Munster Book Launch
Book launch
Join us for a special event celebrating the launch of two important new books by two leading Australian theorists of computational culture—Professor Adrian Mackenzie (ANU) and Professor Anna Munster (UNSW).The event kicks off with an in-conversation between the authors as they discuss the politics…
Left-wing is best wing? The meaning and justification of political orientation.
Seminar
Political philosophers rarely analyse the categories of “left” and “right” in their own right, yet these labels structure much of public political debate. This talk, framed as a response to Joshi’s 2020 paper, What Are the Chances You’re Right About Everything? An Epistemic Challenge for Modern…
Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder
Seminar
For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers spent their lives—if they survived—in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them.In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused…
Topic Continuity, Realism, and The Objects of Philosophical Inquiry
Seminar
Some philosophical inquiry is directed at our thought and talk about a subject matter (e.g. how to understand the nature of moral thought, or our concept of consciousness), while other philosophical inquiry is directed towards understanding the “things themselves” (e.g. the nature of moral facts…