Environmental Exchanges: Jakobina Arch
Seminar
Mitigating Risks of Coastal Sailing: Adaptations to Oceanic Dangers in Early-Modern Japan Associate Professor Jakobina Arch, Whitman College This presentation by Dr Jakobina Arch is part of Environmental Exchanges, a seminar series organised by the Centre for Environmental History to…
Martian Scientific Odyssey and Astronautical Religion in Space Exploration History
Seminar
Abstract to be made available within two weeks of seminar date. Zoom Detailshttps://anu.zoom.us/j/88976004935?pwd=bE90L05FQ1ljQWg1Uk1Fcmc0R3IrUT09 Meeting ID: 889 7600 4935 Password: 380582
The Digital Republic - Public Lecture by Jamie Susskind
Lecture
Susskind’s latest book, The Digital Republic, tackles one of the biggest political questions of our time: how freedom and democracy can survive - and flourish - in a world transformed by digital technology. Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired and the internet was regarded as a tonic…
Race beyond perception: analysing race in post-visual regimes
Seminar
Join Thao Phan for "Race beyond perception: Analysing race in post-visual regimes". In their influential introduction to racial formations, Michael Omi and Howard Winant define race as an essentially visual phenomenon. They state that “race is ocular in an irreducible way. Human bodies are…
Access and Ethics in Prison Research (Farah Godrej)
Seminar
How do the requirements of “scholarly” research—including and especially ethics reviews by institutional bodies—serve to shape and constrain the access that researchers can gain to prisons? How does it shape the researcher’s engagement with their incarcerated research participants?…
The Soviet Union in Retrospect. Life and Death of a Superpower
Lecture
The ANU School of History is pleased to host the 2022 Allan Martin Lecture with keynote speaker Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick.A century after the Soviet Union’s unexpected arrival in the world, and 30 years after its unexpected departure, it’s time to look back on this remarkable episode of…
Deep Conversations: Restoration, Recovery, and Repair
Seminar
Deep Conversations: Restoration, Recovery and Repair Part I: Repatriation Amid a climate of crisis and ‘unprecedented times’, moments of destruction and devastation are intertwined with those of respite and renewal. By exploring these moments—their mechanisms and tensions—scholars can…