History Day at ANU
Other
A one-day event for senior secondary school students, hosted by the School of History & Centre for Classical Studies ANU in partnership with the History Teachers' Association ACT.Welcome to History Day at ANU 2026! Come on a journey back thousands of years to discover the history and…
Queering Auto/Biography: The Many Lives of Alison Clark
Seminar
Please note that this presentation will discuss gender based violence and trauma associated with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.In life-writing by and about queer lives, there are few examples of auto/biography that reflect, in their presentation of both content and structure, the anti-normative experience…
2026 John Passmore Lecture
Lecture
Smaller Chance of Mistake, More Innocents Dead: A Different Problem with Using AI Systems in War (and Elsewhere) AbstractUsing AI systems in identifying targets may very well increase accuracy, in the following sense: For each person suspected to be a legitimate target, the chance of a false…
Jack Smart Lecture: 'When may I burden myself?'
Lecture
There are cases in which both prudential rationality and morality allow you to burden yourself in some way at one time in order to secure something you value at another time. And there are cases in which prudential rationality and morality both prohibit doing this. But I will argue that there are…
Musquito: The real story of a legendary colonial warrior, by Naomi Parry Duncan
Book launch
In her new book Musquito: The real story of a legendary colonial warrior, historian Naomi Parry Duncan wades through misinformation and myth to tell the story of one of the best-known First Nations resistance warriors of the early colonial period. In the process, she uncovers and grapples with the…
From here to there and the in-between: Children’s transitions between homes after parental separation
Lecture/seminar
Two potentially important aspects of post-separation parenting arrangements are the number and nature of children’s transitions between homes. Yet scant empirical attention has been paid to the practical, emotional, and relational aspects of these. In this seminar, we examine five contextual…
Artificial Intelligence and Value Alignment
Lecture
“Value alignment”—the challenge of ensuring that the outputs of artificial intelligence and other machine systems reflect and respect human values—has emerged as an urgent concern as computational technologies increasingly encroach upon central domains of human decision-making. Existing strategies…