Trans*: A Quick and Quirky History of Gender Variance
Lecture
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favour of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an…
The Politics and Implications of Recent Life Writing
Workshop
Life-writing is a broad genre encompassing all manner of ‘ego documents’ including autobiography, diaries, journals, letters, memoirs, and oral testimony. It is not only an historical genre, but it is an increasingly interdisciplinary specialism. It is said to reflect extreme individualism of late…
Being with and Being for Animals: The status and role of method in contemporary sociological animal studies
Symposium
Being-With and Being-For Animals:The Status and Role of Method in Contemporary Sociological Animal Studies This symposium, jointly hosted by The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and the School of Sociology at the Australian National University, will focus on examining the ways in which…
Berlin Summer School: European Migration, Culture and Citizenship
Other
OVERVIEW OF SUMMER SCHOOL This intensive Summer School brought undergraduates to Berlin to learn about European immigration and integration challenges. Study topics included: Islam in Europe; multiculturalism; relationship between culture and citizenship; memorialisation versus community-based…
A General Mortality Model & Moving Verbal Autopsy from Research to Routine Use
Seminar
This seminar will have two parts. First, presentation of a formal mortality model, and second, discussion of efforts to rapidly improve information on cause of death where there are few data describing how people die. High quality data describing all-age mortality are not available for many low and…
Ashley Barnwell: Keeping the nation’s secrets
Workshop
Keeping the nation’s secrets: ‘colonial storytelling’ within and about Australian families Recent studies of the ‘genealogy craze’ focus on how family historians appeal to ancestors to fashion their own identities, but ‘doing family history’ can also be a form of national identity work. In Finding…
Excellence and Gender Equality: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences:
Conference
26-28 June 2019: Australian National University, Canberra, ANU Gender Institute Signature Event This conference aims to reshape current approaches to gender inequality in academia, and shifs the attention that has often been paid primarily to women in STEM to issues in HASS disciplines. By…