Book Launch: 'The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, resistance fighters and firebrands'
Book launch
Before the Second World War, the majority of Jews were working class and part of a wider struggle alongside their non-Jewish comrades on the left. The book celebrates Jewish radicalism from the Tsarist Empire to Poland and Germany, from London to New York. To illuminate this background, the issue…
Masterclass: The changing landscape of academic publishing
Other
You are invited to a special masterclass with Professor Jerry A. Jacobs, to reflect on the intersections of your research with the sociology of work and occupations and discuss strategies for positioning this research for potential publications in peer-reviewed journals in sociology, gender studies…
'In My Blood It Runs', book launch and panel
Book launch
Please join us for the launch of the new children's book: In My Blood It Runs, written by Dujuan Hoosan, Margaret Anderson and Carol Turner, with illustrations by Blak Douglas. The book is based on the documentary of the same name and continues the argument for self-determined education…
Subjects of Time: Australian lives at the fin de siècle
Seminar
The fin de siècle c1890-1914 reflected a tension between movement and stasis, degeneration and progress. Historical actors caught between acting in the world as it was or finding ways of changing circumstance and perspective. Charles Conder’s painting While Daylight Lingers (1890) provided an…
Legitimacy Beyond the State
Workshop
This workshop aims to advance philosophical research on legitimacy as a normative (as opposed to merely sociological) concept. Philosophers have traditionally applied the concept of legitimacy exclusively to political states, often with special attention to the close relation between states…
The Road to Batemans Bay by Alastair Greig - Book Launch
Book launch
Join us for snacks and drinks in the RSSS Foyer as Emeritus Fellow Alastair Greig launches The Road to Batemans Bay (ANU Press, 2024). The book will be launched by Associate Professor Ruth Morgan and Professor Nick Brown. The Road to Batemans Bay is the story of competing ventures…
Thinking From Everywhen: Philosophy, Indigenous Knowledge & Perspectives
Workshop
This workshop asks how Western Philosophy should proceed if it takes seriously the challenge of decolonisation and of opening a respectful dialogue with Indigenous philosophies and knowledge systems. It explores ways to improve the plurality of the Philosophy discipline by recognising First Nations…