‘It’s a Fish-eat-Fish World': Mātsya-Nyāya, Anarchical Chaos, and the Social Contract in ancient Brāhmanical India
Seminar
Mātsya-nyāya is a central concept in the political science of ancient Brāhmanical India. When the King fails to protect the Kingdom, chaos ensues, and Mātsya-nyāya – ‘the Guiding Principle (nyāya) of the Fish (mātsya)’ – comes into effect. Without the State to maintain law and order, the stronger…
Stepping Stones in the Indian Ocean: New Archaeological Evidence for Trade and Interaction in the Comoros Archipelago, East Africa
Lecture/seminar
New archaeological evidence from the Comoros Archipelago reveals its pivotal role as a maritime crossroads linking East Africa, Madagascar, and the wider Indian Ocean. In this public lecture, Associate Professor Alison Crowther will unveil recent discoveries that are rewriting our understanding of…
The World Literature Turn in Spanish & Latin American Literature
Symposium
Juan Poblete’s volume New Approaches to Latin American Studies (Routledge 2018) provided an up-to-date snapshot of new and renewed approaches to Latin American Studies framed around the concept of “the turn,” such as: the subalternist turn, decolonial turn, and Indigenous studies turn, to name…
HDR 2027 - Information Session
Information session
Join us on the 21st August at 12pm for an informal, online information session where you will hear about the unique features of the HDR programme at the ANU, the research expertise of the scholars on staff, and opportunities afforded to graduate students studying with us. We will also have the…
Reading Radiation: Evidence and Future-Making in Post-Disaster Fukushima
Lecture/seminar
How does radiation function as evidence? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Fukushima, Japan site of the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, this talk examines how radiation is activated, contested, and suppressed in discourse across a range of sites—museum…
Museums, Truth, Governance: The Civic Agency of the Country/culture Couplet
Lecture/seminar
There will be three aspects to this presentation. First, I will briefly review the concerns that have informed my contributions to museum studies since the publication of The Birth of the Museum in 1995. These have been informed chiefly by two aspects of Michel Foucault’s work: his conception of…
Honours 2027 - Information Session
Information session
Learn all about the Classical Studies Honours program:why you might want to do an Honours year, what an Honours year entails, how to ensure you are eligible, and the funding opportunities available to help support your Honours year.