Out of Harm’s Way: How Australian Music Venues and DIY Events Make Safe Spaces (Emma Crocker, ANU)
Seminar
Australian music venues, bars, and DIY (do-it-yourself) music events post ‘safe space’ policies to walls, Instagram pages, and bathroom doors. These policies invite event attendees to think of themselves as being within a distinct safe space. What differentiates these spaces from other venues is…
Australian Federal Election 2025 Roundtable
Panel discussion
Join us on Thursday 8 May, for a panel discussion examining the results of the 2025 Australian Federal Election. Bringing together some of the country’s leading scholars in political science, this event offers a considered and data-driven exploration of the forces that shaped this year’s outcome.…
Cruelty, Coverture, and Colonial Women’s Writings: A Social and Cultural History of Domestic Violence in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria, 1880-1914.
Seminar
Domestic violence was arguably at its most visible in colonial society by the end of the nineteenth century. As a result of developments in law and literature, as well as a growing consciousness amongst women about the unacceptability of their experiences, both colonial female writers and wives…
How Cases Speak to One Another: Using Translation to Rethink Generalization in Political Science Research (Nicholas Rush Smith, CUNY)
Seminar
Regardless of method, political scientists often seek to develop arguments that can be generalized to a population of cases. But is this the only way to think about how cases speak to one another? We advocate for a new way to think about how qualitative research produces broadly applicable…
‘Serious and Seemingly Inherent Obstacles to Successful Judicial Biography’ in Writing Sir Gerard Brennan: The Law’s Good Servant
Seminar
Twelve years before I commenced work on a ‘judicial biography’, the US jurist Richard Posner warned that in addition to ‘all the problems of general biography’ the writer of a such a biography also faces other ‘serious and seemingly inherent obstacles,’ including:the impossibility of reliably…
Treating prejudice: Japanese doctors in a white Australia
Seminar
Next year marks the 125th anniversary of the passage of the Immigration Restriction Act and formal establishment of the ‘White Australia policy’. At least one major publication is being prepared to mark this anniversary and review diverse aspects of the stringent restrictions placed on the…
Mechanisms of invisibility: Contradictions of localising humanitarianism and questions of participation
Seminar
Localisation refers to shifting the ownership and leadership of crisis response to local actors. Within the humanitarian sector, localisation has been framed as making aid more reflective of needs on the ground, supporting more equitable structures, and addressing concerns related to colonisation…