Women, Gender, and Violence from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Workshop
The event is a one-day workshop entitled “Women, Gender and Violence from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.” It will bring together scholars working at ANU and other institutions in Australasia to present research papers investigating women’s experiences of gender-based violence in different contexts,…
The 2024 USA Presidential Election
Panel discussion
On 5 November, the United States will witness one of the most competitive and unprecedented presidential elections in recent history: From Donald Trump’s distinctive campaigning style to the unexpected Democratic nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris, alongside politically motivated…
Workshop: Surveys in Political Research
Workshop
As we navigate an era of rapid political shifts and evolving public sentiments, the need for innovative and precise survey methods has never been more pressing. This one-day workshop, designed for advanced students and early career researchers, offers a comprehensive overview of survey…
The biopedagogies of sugar - public lecture by Professor Karen Throsby
Lecture
Join us for a public lecture by Professor Karen Throsby, RSSS Visiting Fellow in Sociology, titled "The Biopedagogies of Sugar: Self-Knowledge, Intervention, and the Fantasy of Liberation." In the second decade of the 21st century, sugar supplanted dietary fat as the dietary enemy du jour. In the…
'All my petty schemes': The Hong Kong diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855-56
Seminar
Chaloner Alabaster (later, Sir) became a Student Interpreter in the China Consular Service in 1855, aged 16. The Consular Service was established under the Treaty of Nanjing after the British victory in the First Opium War in 1843. Student Interpreters were the lowest rung on the ladder, but…
Writing Lives with Bernadette Brennan
Workshop
A Canberra Writers Festival event sponsored by the National Centre of Biography. For a biography to sing it needs to be written with energy and passion. The biographer, driven by curiosity and the desire to understand what makes their subject tick, or in Helen Vendler’s words, ‘the inner dynamic…
Before Islamic Finance: Muslim Banking in South Asia and the World, 1880-1975
Webinar/Online
In this webinar event, Dr Mike O'Sullivan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) examines the varieties of, and challenges to, Muslim private banking in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. It studies this phenomenon against the backdrop of two processes: The first, are the…