Immersia 2024: Raising children in more than one language
Seminar
Are you a parent or member of a bilingual family? Do you often wonder if or how your children will grow up bilingually in Australia? In collaboration with 2024 Immersia, the ACT Bilingual Alliance and the ANU Centre for European Studies presents this panel discussion and seminar for families…
Community leadership in changing the conversation on protection visas
Seminar
Join us for a presentation outlining what the Australian Government is doing to stop the exploitation of protection visas. Protection visas are for asylum seekers (or their family members) who face a real risk of significant harm or a real chance of persecution if they return to their home…
Population Challenges and Our Data
Symposium
Which Post-Pandemic Population Challenges is Australia Facing, and Which Data is Available and Envisioned to Address Them? Australia is facing various population challenges and unforeseen demographic changes post-pandemic: unprecedented low fertility rates, rising rates of mental ill-health,…
Shanghai Demimondaine: From Sex Worker to Society Matron
Seminar
In this Biography Workshop Nick Hordern explores the hitherto unknown life of Australian woman Lorraine Murray (1910–2000). Arriving in Shanghai in 1933, Lorraine found herself in the sex industry. In 1936 she quit the industry, but struggled to find a new path, until the American author…
States of Subsistence: Methodological Reflections from the Bakery (José Ciro Martínez, York)
Seminar
On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz 'arabi—the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure. Yet despite its ubiquity in accounts of Middle…
EP Thompson at 100: History, Law, Politics
Seminar
EP Thompson (1924-1993) was one of the great British historians of the past century. His work reshaped our thinking about the relationship between law and society. His classic texts, such as The Making of the English Working Class and Whigs and Hunters not only transformed eighteenth- and…
Do climate models leave us cold? Devices, felt-virtualities and the sociology of heat
Seminar
The paper seeks to ground heat and temperature more sociologically. The starting thought, which is possibly completely wrong, is that the modelling of global average temperature undertaken by climate scientists over the last few decades, is affecting a wide range of experiences of heat. Not only is…