Conversations across the Creek: Bushfire Summer
Panel discussion
Three scholars studying bushfires from different disciplinary and institutional perspectives will share their research and reflections on the nation's Bushfire summer with interested colleagues from across the university.
Works that Shaped the World: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Seminar
“MR WORDSWORTH’S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age”, wrote the critic and journalist, William Hazlitt: “It is one of the innovations of the time. It partakes of, and is carried along with, the revolutionary movement of our age”. William Wordsworth has gone down in literary…
Seeking Elizabeth Sims: Gender, opportunity and risk in an emigration story
Seminar
For women of the vulnerable ‘middling sort’ in nineteenth-century England and Australia, family was the first defence against destitution or ruin. But the net of family could prove fragile indeed, leaving them to navigate dangerous waters of emigration, male support, and a chancy…
Conversations across the Creek: Decolonizing the University
Seminar
Arguing that the institution of the university has been broadly complicit with colonialism, the call to “decolonize” universities and academic practices has been heard across the world, from Cape Town to Oxford to Canberra. But what exactly does it mean to “decolonize” the university or to “…
Works that Shaped the World: The “Gweagal” shield: Cook at Kamay (Botany Bay) 1770
Seminar
A recording of this event is now available to listen to as a Works that Shaped the World Podcast. Violence marred the encounter between the British and Gweagal at Kamay (Botany Bay) in 1770. Approaching the shore, Lieutenant James Cook shot at two indigenous men. Although wounded, one man went to…
The Countess.Report with the National Gallery of Australia
Webinar/Online
Who are Countess.Report? Join artists Elvis Richardson, Amy Prcevich and Miranda Samuels in an accessible conversation with Professor Denise Ferris, Head of School, School of Art & Design ANU to discuss their individual and collective practice as artists, activists and advocates. Countess…
Race, Culture & Data: Dealing with Difference in Schematic Technologies
Seminar
In a recent blog post, UTS Emeritus Professor of Sociology Andrew Jakubowicz wrote: “[A] dark hole sits at the heart of multicultural Australia – the data bypass on how the COVID-19 virus pandemic is affecting our culturally diverse communities.” According to Jakubowicz, “…