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14
Jul
2025

In Conversation with Kerrie Davies at Harry Hartog

Book launch

This event is hosted by Harry Hartog ANU in conjunction with the National Centre of BiographyOn 14 July Dr Kerrie Davies will be in conversation with Dr Michelle Staff on Davies' new book, Miles Franklin Undercover: The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career (Allen…

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Gideon Rosen
17
Jul
2025

Explanatory Realism

Lecture

The cement of the universe is not causation: it is explanatory dependence. Reality is a network of facts connected by a single, irreducible, mind-independent “because”. It is widely held that explanation is a sort, interest-sensitive practice that aims to provide information only about other things…

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Habit's pathways book cover
21
Jul
2025

Habit’s Pathways: Guiding Repetition, Governing Conduct, Contested Interruptions

Seminar

Drawing principally on the work of Michel Foucault, this paper considers how the relations between habit and repetition have been construed in the exercise of different forms of power: disciplinary, pastoral, governmental,and algorithmic, for example. It does so by reviewing a range of the…

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22
Jul
2025

2025 John Passmore Lecture with Professor Niko Kolodny

Lecture

⚠️ Please note: Start time is subject to final confirmation. Registered attendees will be notified of any changes.Join us for the 2025 John Passmore Lecture by Professor Niko Kolodny on Two Concepts of Consent. Niko will explore how consent transforms moral duties and what conditions give it…

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Drawing of an Indian Ayah from 1864 and photo of professor Victoria Haskins
22
Jul
2025

Connecting the Dots: Ayahs and Empire in Australian Settler Society

Lecture

What can the stories of South Asian ayahs – nursemaids and domestic servants – tell us about the significance of race and women’s domestic labour in Australia’s settler colonial history – and why do these stories remain so elusive? In this talk, Victoria Haskins reflects on the obscure lives of…

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31
Jul
2025

Harold Holt: Always One Step Further

Seminar

Details TBC.

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04
Aug
2025

Love Across Class

Seminar

What does it mean to partner across class difference? Based on 38 in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural backgrounds, the 2024 book Love Across Class brings to life the role of class in shaping people’s childhoods, as well as the adult lives cross-class couples have…

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