Meet the author - Lea Ypi
Meet the remarkable Lea Ypi, winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and Costa Biography Award nominee, as she takes us on an insightful journey through her award-winning book 'Free…
2023 Bernard Wheelahan grants now open
Each year the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences may offer an award known as the Bernard Wheelahan Latin American Travel Grant (the award). The objective of the award is to assist a student…
Convict Lives: Biography in a Digital Age
On 20 July, the Australian Dictionary of Biography organised the 'Convict Lives: Biography in a Digital Age' Symposium aiming to bring together scholars studying convict Australia to explore the…
Congratulations to our recent graduates!
The CASS graduation ceremony on 13 July saw four PhD students in the School of History have their awards conferred. Their topics reveal something of the range of work being undertaken by postgraduate…
New Publication: Five Steps to a World of Intelligent Life
Five major changes in the computational capacity of brains have led to the world of intelligent life around us. That’s the conclusion of Professor Andrew Barron from Macquarie University with Dr…
10 years on: Gillard's legacy
School of History PhD Candidate, Joshua Black, recently published an article for The Conversation looking back on the legacy of former Prime Minister Julia Gillard, 10 years following her ousting…
Great results of the Evolvability Workshop
A cake is only as good as the ingredients used to make it, and so too the outcomes of evolution are constrained by the traits that are present in populations. The evolution of multicellular organisms…